Category: Insights

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…

‘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.

The ‘small’ matter of the heart

In the past couple of weeks, I have been exposed to two small things, but two…

‘Being big enough to learn’

I have just returned from Francistown in Botswana where I conducted mutual gains negotiation training for union and management negotiators of a large mine. It is a course I have trained in many different countries on a number of continents, yet peoples’ traditional approaches to and experiences in negotiations are so similar.