“What’s to say that when you place eight strangers in a room with unique life situations, processes, fears and joys it will be harmonious…”

Read Tanis’ musings as she prepares for our February Climate Circle.

As the new year gets underway, Kirstin, Jake and James share their reflections on what it means, and what it takes, to Lead Through Storms.

“More often it’s crooked-backwards; then a bit forward; then back again. Like a rosary or a musical refrain it repeats and returns - inviting us to feel through it lyrically, over and again, different each time…”

Read Tanis’ musings as she prepares for our January Climate Circle.

“I skipped writing a Natural Reflections piece last month. Although it was a potent time with the winter solstice and I thought I had lots to say, I simultaneously felt the pull to rest and withdraw…”

Read Jake’s reflections and practices, as she prepares for our January Flourishing Friday on Hampstead Heath.

“Somewhere underneath the autumn leaf fall, there is a whole ecology at play; fungal decay, microbial activation, intervertebral communication. I’d like to tempt you into closer relation with the world under our feet…”

Read Jake’s reflections and practices, as she prepares for our November Flourishing Friday on Hampstead Heath.

“… that the most exciting phrase to hear in his lab was a kind of baffled ‘hmmm?..’ Not a high-wire gasp or a group high five, nope; the most exciting sound to hear in his lab was a kind of stumped silence…”

Read Tanis’ musings as she prepares for our November Climate Circle.

“In the dark times

Will there also be singing?

Yes, there will also be singing.

About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht”

Read Jake’s reflections and practices, as she prepares for our October Flourishing Friday on Hampstead Heath.

“I’ve been feeling the weight of what’s occupying and being carried by clients and friends this month. At first, I thought it was simply a part of the ‘back to school’ feeling…”

Read Jake’s reflections and practices, as she prepares for our September Flourishing Friday on Hampstead Heath.

What's your experience of trying to bring about a different future? What carries you forward, and what keeps you from reaching into greater, more meaningful transformation?

Here, Kirstin shares her reflections, including how our approach to deep-rooted dilemmas might be a vital part of patterning hope and a different kind of integrity.

The theme of radical collaboration is one we return to time and again in our work. What's the idea and what part might it play in our current predicament? What does it take, and what shifts may occur as a result?

Community member, Annette Hennessy, shares her experiences and reflections.

Prof. Jem Bendell writes, “the evidence for the unfolding process of societal disruption and collapse is becoming overwhelming”.

Given this framing, what are your reflections on the transformation efforts you, your organisation, your community are engaged in? What is giving you hope, and which aspects of your leadership would benefit from a different kind of attention?

We are arguably in the midst of a new transformation in our human relationship with nature. A growing body of visual, performed and written work is beginning to acknowledge cooperation and symbiosis, not simply competition, as fundamental organising principles for life on this planet.

What is our part as leaders in this?

What if the changes required to drive systemic transformation can happen “in a millisecond, as the scales fall from our eyes”? Donella Meadows suggested this possibility when articulating her ideas about leverage points – places to intervene in a system.

Blog 3 (of 3) on our ‘Four Pathways To Spirited Leadership’ framework.

We illustrate with an organisational story what can happen when we stray from the path, since sometimes we don’t act in the most mature ways!

We find that when don’t walk all four interweaving paths in balance, together, consciously, things can get pretty ugly.

Blog 2 (of 3) on our ‘Four Pathways To Spirited Leadership’ framework.

How can we each put our restless energies in service of what seems really needed, in acts of spirited leadership?

We work with four interweaving pathways to help us.