Journal
The Gestalt Conversations, alongside earlier essays and reflections from The Embodied Coach.
Slow written reflections on awareness, belonging, relationships, work and the encounters that shape us - drawn from lived experience and a curiosity about what happens when we truly meet ourselves and one another.
On self-compassion, why we resist it, and what makes it genuinely difficult for high achieving people. Self -compassion sounds simple. For most people in professional life, it turns out to be one of the hardest things available. Self-compassion has an image problem In many professional contexts, it sounds like something
On joy, genuine contact, and why the feeling you are looking for is already here. Joy is not what happens when everything goes right. Gestalt suggests it is what happens when you are genuinely present to whatever is actually here. We have spent a good deal of this series in
On self-forgiveness, unfinished business, and what it means to finally let yourself off the hook. Most people think forgiveness is about the other person. Gestalt suggests the person most in need of your forgiveness may be closer to home. There is someone you have probably not fully forgiven. Not the
A deeper companion to Be, Not Do, on identity, the self beneath the doing, and what remains when the doing stops. The last blog explored why we resist empty space. This one asks a harder question: what are we actually afraid of finding there? This blog follows directly from Be,
In a world that celebrates productivity, it can feel almost radical to do nothing. Our days are filled with meetings, messages, errands, plans and goals. Even our leisure time often becomes another opportunity for achievement. We count steps, track sleep, set reading targets and create bucket lists. The pressure to
A proper introduction to the approach for those who are new, and those who have been here all along. Thirteen blogs in, it felt like time to properly introduce the approach that has been quietly running through all of them. A note to those who have been reading this series:
What it means to lead as a whole person and why that changes everything. Leadership has been taught as a set of skills for long enough. This blog makes the case for something deeper and more human. There is a version of leadership that is essentially technical. It can be
On leadership, the reflex to solve, and the deeper value of stepping back. There’s a version of leadership that feels productive because it’s constantly busy. This blog asks what that busyness is actually costing. If I shifted more of my time from ad hoc requests to coaching my team, the