I teach what I live. And I write about it. I send personal essays about working at the edge of change. Patterns observed, stories lived, insights gathered. Wrapped up with a loving, curious coaching inquiry.
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A New Possible
Personal essays from the field, working with leaders, teams and organisations in the trenches of change. Often reflected in my own life. These are investigations into what it means to grow regenerative futures, change systems for a thrivable planet and cultivate a relational worldview. Also includes new offerings and free tools. Sent once or twice a month.
Foraged
Sent once a month as a curated collection of things grown in the forest of my relationships and the world - a commitment to beauty, new creative ways forward for humanity - and a cultivation of the idea that my business is an ecosystem and not an island.
Don’t lose your humanity!
On grieving Israeli and Palestinian lives, my own family's history of war in Slovenia and the Balkans, and a call to find our shared humanity beyond politics.
The being and doing of leadership development
On the difference between horizontal development (new skills, the how) and vertical development (inner capacity, the come-from), and why leadership needs both.
Wisdom seat facilitation principles
On facilitating Wisdom Seat sessions for a community of regenerators, nine principles for holding space so collective wisdom emerges, rooted in Slovenian tradition.
Row, row, row the team boat
On the two oars every team needs, task and relationship, the symptoms of rowing with only one, and small ways to bring the relationship oar back into the routine.
The real agenda of your team meetings
On the disorientation vortex teams get stuck in, and why making space for the emotional, unspoken agenda of a meeting is what actually builds trust and moves things forward.
Do you want to become a Creative Catalyst?
On starting the year with intentions instead of goals, letting strategy emerge rather than plan it, and the group coaching program I am about to launch.
How to set boundaries for your inner pleaser like a ninja
On people pleasing as a childhood survival strategy, why it is especially pervasive in women, and a 9-step process for becoming your own boundary ninja.
Perfectionism
On perfectionism as a survival strategy, not a flaw, and a process for getting into right relationship with your inner perfectionist instead of shaming it.
On recovering from leadership mistakes
On the shame and fear that keep old leadership mistakes buried, and a hard-earned, 7-step process for owning them, repairing trust and actually changing.
A new possible 2023
On starting the year with intentions instead of goals, letting strategy emerge rather than plan it, and the group coaching program I am about to launch.
(Re)Source
On why 'resource' is extractive language, for people and for nature, and what changes when we return to its root meaning: a source, a spring, rising again.
Founders of Tomorrow
On attending Founders of Tomorrow, and restructuring my business around the seasons: growing in summer, resting in winter, instead of constant hustle.
15-minute life change
A 15-minute coaching demo gave me a vision of myself as an elder gathering people round a fire. Two weeks later, I resigned to start Thought Wardrobe.
Systems coaching
On completing ORSC training: why I now coach the relationship system itself, not the individuals in it, and what changes when a team is coached this way.
Leadership is a spiritual journey
Leadership as a return to purpose, meaning and love, beyond performance and achievement. Written from a workshop in the Lake District, on learning to pause.