21 Jun How to find focus
This week we hear from Bird associate Elloa, sharing her reflections after our Bird associate workshop day last month. Enjoy...
14 Jun Science and Nature. Knowledge and Intuition.
I am quite an intuitive person, and rely on my gut feeling for a lot of decisions and actions in life. I sometimes notice myself pushing back when others lean towards more fact-based approaches, when others are more logical and make decisions based on gathered information...
07 Jun How to avoid getting bogged down by nonsense
Nonsense is everywhere. My definition of nonsense is 'actions and words that make situations more complicated, noisier, and are not at all aligned with personal or organisational values, vision or purpose.' Nonsense can be found in organisations, in relationships and sometimes in our own brains. Nonsense is...
31 May How your work will be much more peaceful and creative in future
Our brilliant Bird associate Elloa Atkinson sent me a groundbreaking book yesterday. It's called Reinventing Organisations (I recommend the illustrated version) and talks about the next paradigm of work. I am out of my mind with excitement about this book. It shares, that what we're looking at in future is...
24 May Do what you love
When you do a job that involves supporting others in some way it can feel challenging, overwhelming and emotionally tiring. It's natural to feel this way when working in the not-for-profit or public sector. When the emphasis is always on helping others it can be easy...
17 May Remembering the point
It's very easy to forget 'the point' or 'purpose' when we're super busy. We can come into a project with energy and vision, and over time lose sight of what that driving force was. Likewise it's really common to be unsure of the point; to not...
10 May Coaching as a form of self-care
At Bird we work with brilliant people in the not-for-profit sector to help them build robust self-care toolkits in order to stay resilient. We work on dealing with self-sabotage, developing mindful or meditative practices, building strategies to process emotions, establishing boundaries so resilience is preserved and...
04 May Letting go of the carrot
We live and work in a world where creating success and perfection is encouraged. When we strive for such, life becomes hard and tiring, and we inevitably begin to believe we're substandard because we can't quite meet all of those expectations. So often we're chasing the...
26 Apr What do you desperately want to improve?
Much of the time we're plotting and planning what we're going to get better at, or change, or improve. It's easy to become fixated on being better at work, being slimmer or more fit, improving parenting skills, or making our relationships better and stronger. At Bird...
19 Apr Simple stress busting strategies
Yowzers how nice is this sunshine we're having in the UK! Doesn't life seem so much lighter when the sun shines? (The pun isn't lost on me ;-) So we've been talking all things stress over the past few weeks. This week I want to focus...