Great Circle

When supervising others (be they paid staff or the unpaid volunteers who help in the school office), there comes a time for confronting and challenging their behaviour. I found a terrific article online which gets inside the situation and gives some nice short sharp “how-to’s”, such as specific behaviours (and missing behaviours) to focus on. [...]

In fighting fire with fire, be careful you don’t become an arsonist.

Your head feels like a small town in America’s Tornado Belt. Twisters keep coming and going. Thoughts whirls at hundreds of miles an hour, damaging some of the structures that kept reality nice and tidy for you. You are at that place again where it has become impossible to control the energy of the demands, the expectations, [...]

Eight months of my life were spent living with the extreme restrictions of an acute and chronic back problem. There wasn’t much I could do: couldn’t sit in a coffee shop, couldn’t sit at my own table for more than 2 minutes, couldn’t play active games with the kids, couldn’t stand for too long in [...]

Peaks and troughs – you better get used to them. Most of us experience highs and lows in our life. We often experience these as a rising or falling in our energy level or the degree to which we feel positive emotions like the creative impulse, happiness, optimism, motivation and peace (the sense that all [...]

After I’d told a client recently that she actually already had the ingredients to create the successful outcome she wanted, she replied “Do I? I can’t see them!”. When I went on to suggest one way she could put them together and we discussed the likely results of that, she said in an exhasperated tone: [...]