Why I think we need coaching more than ever

Coaching focuses on deepening our relationships with ourselves and with other people, on figuring out the path from where we are right now to where we want to be and bringing our actions into alignment with our values. We are living in a time of collapse. Recent human...

What I learned from ten days of rest

this post is dedicated to my dog marcel, the best rester and teacher of rest that I know. I started January by taking up Jen Lemen’s invitation to “rest and nest” for ten days. I found it much more of a challenge than I thought was possible, and I realised just how...

Reckoning with the reality of white rage

How we frame things matters.  The words we choose matter. Especially if we claim to want a more just and liberated world. We can choose language that interrogates the status quo, or we can choose language that supports it. I’m seeing a lot of people doing the...

Why setting intentions isn’t about being a better human.

We’re coming up to a new year and if you engage at all with the media or spend any time on the internet, that means you’re likely being subjected to a deluge of content telling us to make bigger and better plans, to grab 2021 by its balls, to eat better, move more,...

Loneliness is a feeling

I went back and forth about writing this article. My coaching work is mostly focused on helping people take effective political action and loneliness feels like a more personal topic. But this is work I know deeply and in many ways it is both personal and political,...