Update to Strategic Post-pandemic Return to Work Model

Fortnightly cycle Based on feedback to a previous blog entry it seems that a fortnightly cycle of alternating one week at the office and one week remote offers a preferred work/life balance approach in terms of logistics, cost and face-to-face interaction. Alternating social interactions and focus time At the office we can meet and integrate … Continue reading Update to Strategic Post-pandemic Return to Work Model

6 Ways to Recognize and Cope with Online Meeting Fatigue

Over the past year or so, many of us had to adapt to interacting through online video meeting software, which has proven challenging for those who were not the focus of attention at live meetings and in classrooms. As new teachers and managers will tell you, front-of-the-room skills do not always come naturally. It takes … Continue reading 6 Ways to Recognize and Cope with Online Meeting Fatigue

Making Sense of Dreams During These Troubled Times

One way of making sense of dreams that I have found helpful in my philosophical consultancy practice is to first understand what dreams are before trying to interpret these messages from our unconscious. Associating with what we already knowDuring sleep we stop taking experience in and engage in a digestion or integration of the days’ … Continue reading Making Sense of Dreams During These Troubled Times

Life Practice 2: Relationship and Content

Paul Watzlawick once said that all statements contain an element of relationship and content. The familiar greeting, “how are you” is just that, a greeting. Relationship based, the speaker doesn’t really want to know how you are feeling; this statement merely acknowledges you, and you reply with “fine thank you, yourself” which is not meant … Continue reading Life Practice 2: Relationship and Content

Life practices approach: a series of blog entries for people whose practices no longer work

As our politicians reach another decision point regarding the extension of social isolation, it is natural for us to ponder their decision with mixed feelings. Unexpectedly thrust upon us, we have experienced this major lifestyle change into social isolation through the cycle of storming and into the norming phase. We have by now adjusted our … Continue reading Life practices approach: a series of blog entries for people whose practices no longer work

Dream Analysis

Dreams extract relationship from the content of experience. Dreaming about real life encounters provides us with opportunities to make sense of particular events. Dreaming about events is how we understand and learn so we can adjust our expectations and become better equipped emotionally for comparable future interactions. Write it down - Capturing the story provides … Continue reading Dream Analysis

Life Practice 4: Know that under stress we regress

Knowing how you behave under stress is empowering because you be able to recognize that you are stressed, and you can invoke some of your own interventions to generate options.  As we have seen in previous practices, naming something is the first step towards fixing it. Know how you are when stressed Stress is one … Continue reading Life Practice 4: Know that under stress we regress