What fascinating times we live in. COVID is certainly turning our lives upside down. As old and emerging ways of being jostle each other, we experience a sense of disorientation...
Australian communities are currently facing head on the crisis of unprecedented bushfires and drought. The processing of what we have experienced and what it tells us of a possible future...
Failure to communicate openly can be a real problem for teams and working relationships. In the absence of direct communication, indirect communication usually results. A culture of gossip, high unexplained...
“We Are An Organisation At War With Ourselves” “We are an organisation at war with ourselves.” When a courageous leader expressed these words in a recent workshop the whole room paid attention. ...
With the murder of 50 Muslim members of the Christchurch community, the realities of hate crimes, have been brought closer to home than we are accustomed to. Those of us...
Organisational transformational or change initiatives represent a big commitment. They take focus, energy and time. Whilst we know organisational change is now a constant, significant transformations take a toll on the...
The New Year is not just a time for thinking about our bucket list and what you want to do, but who you want to be as a person. That...
In my last post I spoke about the film 'BULLY'. One of the great strengths of this film is that while bullying in many schools and workplaces is managed in private,...
I’ve just seen the film ‘BULLY’, which follows the lives of five young people who experience bullying. Of the children in the film, one was seventeen year old Tyler Long, who committed suicide on...
My interest in workplace conflict developed during my work as a rehabilitation consultant specialising in psychological injuries in the workplace. It was evident, at the time, that the mechanisms in place for...
Last night the ABC’s Four Corners program aired shocking footage of the treatment of young Aboriginal children in custody in the Dondale Detention Centre. What I witnessed fills me with...
During my early career as a therapist rehabilitating people after closed head injuries and stroke, I became fascinated by the workings of the brain. These years taught me a lot...
Over the past few years we’ve been training leaders and managers to use a coaching approach to help their staff adjust and navigate rapidly changing environments. Rather than endlessly explaining organisational...
Recently, I was invited to explore with a community of mediators, the impact of power and rank dynamics in conflict. It’s not just mediators who need to have a sharp eye...
I’ve just returned from an extended stay in Provence where the outrage in the wake of this year’s terrorist attack is still palpable. As I left our local baker Phillipe’s...