I love flying. I have dreamed about it since I was old enough to point up at a bird, and was hooked when I realized that there were machines that flew too with people in them. The dream was a long time coming to fruition. In my first term at University (age 18) I met […]

Just a short post today. Travelling to support a friend with a custody issue. Life has emotional content. I think of it as our social operating system. We work with a veneer of language and fool ourselves that we are rational human beings that use our intellects to navigate life. The truth of the matter […]

It is 11:35am. I have a commitment to post this before 2pm today. No pressure. Caveat; taking the brakes off – I do not know where this is heading… I have been wrestling with a number of thoughts over the last week. Some of them pretty bleak, and out of this I am looking to […]

During my training as a Coach, I was introduced to the idea of the unreliability of emotions. What I walked away with was an understanding something along the lines of ‘…whilst our clients may show up with emotion, that is in the way of coaching them effectively – emotions are unreliable – circumstances change – […]

As you may have noticed by now, I am very interested in what we – Hom. Sap. – do next. This is a slightly big question; Hom. Sap. is not a coherent whole, divided along many lines of geography, culture, history. However I believe what unifies us (compassion and care for one another, beyond any […]

A few years ago now, I was contemplating my own sense of loss; my brother-in-law Ian, very suddenly from an aggressive cancer, my mother from a longer, slower struggle with lymphoma, the end of my marriage as the connection once shared and so vital had somehow shriveled and died. Moving through these losses and all […]

(aka. Don’t just do something – sit there!) I picked a big mission for myself. A decade ago as part of my Life Coach and Leadership training program – courtesy of Accomplishment Coaching – I distinguished my life purpose as ‘Love’. There was a noticeable ‘click’ at the time of recognition. And then my head […]

That works on so many levels. And bear with me. There are so many threads unfolding that a linear piece of writing is not going to stand a chance of capturing any significant fraction of them; even less of having them make sense. Consider this a bit of a download and yet to be put […]

I have always been fascinated by Improvisation on stage. Impressed by those who do stand-up and play with the moment, trusting that whatever comes that they will be able to not only face it but somehow find the humour and create a new space in which the old rules break. It is interesting to me […]

Okay – this is a Coaching website. However, there is more to say. What the hell, it is my blog… Elon Musk is an interesting character. He caught my attention recently when he was talking about the idea of refuelling the SpaceX ‘Starship’ vehicle in orbit. He made the point that most of what would […]