There is so much talk of our disconnection these days; disconnection from ourselves, others, our environment. Equally I hear people longing for more connection. My mantra is Calmness, Connection, Compassion…one breath at a time because I believe that if we can quiet the mind, we can pay attention to our body and calm it which in [...]
Observe & Alert: The Sentinel’s Perspective As we continue our journey navigating the challenge of a novel disease induced pandemic, I have been considering the importance of leadership through the lens of “The 5 Roles of a Master Herder”, Linda Kohanov’s model for socially intelligent leadership. This model is a simple yet profound guide to the [...]
Most days I coach individuals in leadership presence and social intelligence in person alongside my four-legged colleagues – horses. Regularly, I join leadership consulting colleagues in co-facilitating experiential sessions for senior and emerging corporate leaders – alongside a herd of horses. Most days, but not in recent days…nor in the days to come. Like so very [...]
Remembering connection in fiery times When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. [...]
I was honoured recently to join a beautiful community of like-minded and open-hearted people committed to the creation of more compassionate approaches to horsemanship and humanship and to foster a more thoughtful, mindful, kinder connection to our Earth mother and all life she supports. Co-creating, co-responding, co-operating were the resonant themes; cohesiveness not coerciveness; conscious not [...]
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom. Rumi It has again been some time since I wrote. Partly because I have been busy being accredited by Linda Kohanov in the Master Herder model, [...]
It is almost two moons since you left this realm Marcus – and I miss you with an intensity that matches the energy building to the total lunar eclipse about to occur when the Moon waxes full in Aquarius. Ah grief, at first we are plunged into the numbing depths as all slows down and we [...]
I have been pondering the over-the-top, sometimes vitriolic, reactions people are displaying in response to social media posts aimed at promoting a more enlightened approach to the environment and animals, our co-walkers on this Earth - this Earth, our Mother who supports and nourishes us all. Watching a short video that documented the destruction of forests [...]
Increasingly it seems as we advance technologically so does our need to connect, not just with each other via social media, but with a wider community, with a sense of spirituality, with a spirit of what is known in the Zulu community as Ubuntu – a concept of a person only being a person in relation [...]
