bearing witness

One of the greatest joys of coaching for me is the opportunity to bear witness to another person’s ‘a-ha!’ moment, the privilege of witnessing the birth of a new insight, way of being and looking at the world.  And all it takes on the part of the coach is the ability to sit still, patient [...]

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Life on shuffle

… or the importance of being pleasantly surprised! Since Apple introduced the ingenious Shuffle button, enabling mp3 players to mix up tracks from your downloaded choice of music, rather than following an obvious pattern such as listening to the whole album, or many songs by the same artist, or the same genre, my experience of listening [...]

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Choice in the time of plenty…

It struck me recently, while debating a personal choice I’m facing, how much our choice-related mechanisms are stuck in the era of dearth: dearth of options, dearth of resources, dearth of opportunities…  And while I acknowledge that dearth is still a daily condition for many in this world, many others still have long moved away [...]

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A digital cigarette

I’ve set up this blog as a moment of reflection in the daily grind of busy-ness and action, as a way for me to ponder mindfully on some of the thoughts and ideas constantly streaming through my brain, and then by sharing them with others, hopefully to link to a bigger community of bloggers, thinkers and [...]

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