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Some places call us back and back again. Here we remember ourselves and what we love: Mountains, rivers, stillness. Here we spend easy time with the people we love: Swimming together, fireside-chats, poytjies. Here we are surprised by … Continue reading
Sadness
“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us; because … Continue reading
Free writing and morning pages ala Julia Cameron
Free writing rules Make sure you won’t be interrupted Decide how much or how long you will write (e.g. 3 pages or 10 mins) Keep your hand moving. Don’t pause to reread. Don’t cross out. Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation … Continue reading
My work is to create clarity and allow for magic to happen.
Creating clarity is detangling and de-cluttering until we can see what is actually there. The tools of clarity are noticing, truth telling, choosing and letting go. Clarity gives us the distilled essence of something. There is something out of the … Continue reading
TCC Developmentors at work
The Coaching Center holds such a special supervision space led by Paddy Paisley. Us coaches or “developmentors” get deep learning and develop our capacity to hold others so they get the transformation and growth they are yearning for.
High self mastery – the Four
At first, when learning about the Enneagram, there is the “eek” when we see so clearly how we have limited ourselves. Then there is the fabulous realisation too that we have natural strengths which we only have to allow to shine. … Continue reading
Yoga
Yoga gives you a way to create inner sanctuary: a safe haven that cradles you and gives you strength when you need it most.
Enneagram workshop handout
One-page summary of the Enneagram inlcuding types, brief descriptors, motivations, core fears, key defences and the centers of intelligence. Also some key quotes and links.
Believe
I watched the Simon Sinek TED talk about how people don’t buy what you are selling or how you made it. They buy the “why”, the purpose behind it. They buy what you believe in. Sinek uses the examples of Apple, … Continue reading
Wounded Vision
We are listening to a book read and written by James Hollis called “The Middle Passage” which title denotes our passage to full adulthood prompted by a call of our psyche for authenticity in our middle age. Chapter One covers … Continue reading