Sharon's Words & Way

Cut ‘n colour and a sweet connection

Along the passage, past the slumbering rather than squeaking ATM, and towards the stairs at the…

A love letter to my housekeeper

Part 1 – A letter written Dear Thembi You were like an old plant sitting contentedly…

Palestine and parallels

“Are you a doctor?” A frown creeps across my forehead. Not a question I’ve ever been…

The weirdness and the wonder

The room surprisingly quiet. A big room, maybe once two rooms, but now the bigger having…

The Pause and the Passion

A time so long awaited. To be, and not to do. To be sitting at a…

In the sweat of the night 

A light dancing on the canvas covering of the Seattle Coffee Company. The car park brick…

Coaching playfulness in workplace mediation

Over the past few months I have been working with two directors of a large and very successful organisation who jointly head one of the organisation’s highest performing departments. My intervention with them started in a mediation which focused on assisting them to deal with some difficulties which had arisen in their relationship and which were affecting their department.

Team Facilitation in Nambia

Last week I facilitated a team alignment session for what’s called an EPCM (Engineering Project and Construction Management) company which has been contracted to build a mine for a Chinese client in Namibia.

‘The L Words’

Language, listening, loving, living and learning: strong stand alone words which hold equal measure of challenge and opportunity; and words which have woven together to form the main threads of my 2014 tapestry.

‘The gentle whispering of the liminal space’

So I am sitting in my office in my ‘client chair’. What I mean by that is that I have two chairs, one which I sit in and one which my clients sit in. I have chosen to sit in the client chair and am wondering if by doing this, I have invited myself into the place of ‘less knowing’, a place in which people who sit in the chair often find themselves. This raises the obvious question of what the other chair represents.