Incorporating simple coaching practices into your work and life can make all the difference to your relationships. There are a million different coaching tools you can play with, and one of my favourites is acknowledgement. Acknowledgement is a really simple tool that involves naming what powerful...
Old school resilience is about trying to control and predict every little eventuality that could go wrong. It's believing that strength is about knowing beforehand what might come up, and having plans on how to deal with those challenges. Now of course there is some value...
I'm currently getting stuck in to Rick Hanson's 'Resilient' book, which is articulating some really helpful ideas about how we build and maintain resilience. One piece he discusses is the idea that we have 'green' and 'red' zones. The green zone is our restful zone, and...
This week our fantastic associate Elloa has shared her thoughts about trusting the ebb and flow. Enjoy...
At Bird, we do a tonne of teaching around being emotionally aware. We give tools and strategies that help people to feel their emotions, and to let them go rather than suppress them or ruminate on them. What can happen, when one is emotionally aware, is...
A wonderful client of mine shared a beautiful book recommendation recently. The book is 'How to be more tree' by Liz Marvin. If you have ever attended a Bird workshop you will know how much we love using trees as metaphors for wellbeing and resilience. We...
In her Book The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown talks about cultivating play, laughter, song and dance as a way to feel authentic. Feeling authentic is one avenue through which we can feel resilient and well. When we aren't fully ourselves we are likely to...
Happy Thursday, I hope the sun is breaking through for you as it is here in Brighton and Hove. We came across a really interesting new TED talk by Johann Hari recently. The presentation explores some of the ideas from his book Lost Connections, which as you will probably...
In his book 'Lost Connections' Johann Hari talks about the importance of connection in tackling depression and anxiety. He talks about connection to nature and connection to each other, and how both can help us to feel held and safe and supported. It can be hard,...
Well, here we are, 2020. I for one am excited to be entering a new decade, it feels like an opportunity to think about a nice big chunk of time, and consider all that I'd like to achieve before 2030. I sometimes think we overestimate what we...