I bought a box of resilience cards from The School of Life recently. The cards share prompts and thoughts that help us think differently about resilience. They offer new perspectives on things that might be worrying us and making us feel less than hopeful about...
It's our belief at Bird, that everyone is a leader. You don't have to be managing a team of people in the workplace to be a leader. You don't have to be managing a team of people anywhere to be a leader. You just have to...
It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Charles Darwin Change is inevitable, particularly for people who are trying new things or leading a project, team or organisation. Nature shows us this, with its cycles...
I sometimes reflect on where it all began for me in terms of thinking about wellbeing and self-reflection and self-care. I remember about ten years ago being given a book, called Feel the fear and do it anyway, and devouring it on the bus to...
Looking after yourself is a form of activism. When we are perpetually stressed we keep in line. When we are constantly overwhelmed we don’t have creative ideas, we run on fumes and have little left in the tank for the lightbulb moments that shake up...
Work is busy at the moment. My head is consistently in 'on' mode. I notice myself thinking of tasks, and trying to work through challenges as I drift off to sleep. Work quickly pops into my head as I wake up in the morning, and...
On our way to delivering some resilience workshops yesterday, Bird associate Elloa and I reflected on the extent of self-supporting resilience building strategies we actually have access to. Many of which are free and available to us at any moment. Our discussion reminded me of Brené...
Resilience is a concept more of us are becoming familiar with. Resilience is no longer about 'bouncing back' it's about being a tree...
We live in a society that values being busy and stressed. We are celebrated for spinning plates and achieving lots of things. Often we are unaware of the pressure we feel to keep going, to keep producing, to keep doing. More research is bringing to light...
On the blog, in our workshops and in 1:1 coaching sessions in the not-for-profit sector, we regularly discuss how the mind and body are connected. How if we feed our body well it will make our mind feel more alive and switched on, and likewise,...