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The Super-Helper Syndrome – Part 2

Help can be very humbling. It is hard to admit I need help right here. When I see someone or something that needs help, my first response is to go help. But is that the best thing in the moment, “What kind of help is needed here”? asks Erin Randall as she notes the seismic […]

The Super-Helper Syndrome-Part 1

The Super-Helper Syndrome: A survival guide for compassionate people, authored by Jess Baker and Rod Vincent, serves up a rich meal to underpin what healthy helping looks like.  “Do all things with great love.  Avoid helping as a form of rescue,  there needs to be reciprocity in helping.   People who are helped need to have opportunities where they feel […]

Heart Centred Leadership

Fran Borg-Wheeler describes Heart Centred Leadership as being about connection, compassion, care and harnessing the power of kindness in leadership. “My vision was for young people to be able to have safe place to live and for them to get the support to be able to flourish in life and create better futures. I was […]

Excavating Memory, Archaeology and Hope

Excavating Memory, Archaeology and Hope is an invitation by Elizabeth Mosier to listen to the objects speak. The true treasure is not the object at all. Instead, it is the stories the object tells about the people who owned or used it, what the thing tells you about the person and what is of importance […]

Mountains and Valleys, Ordinary to Extraordinary

Mountains and valleys, ordinary to extraordinary is a theme that thrills anthropologist Erik Seversen. Erik spotlights the essence of feeling fulfilled and purposeful. Describing himself as ordinary he admits doing extraordinary things, especially after being told he would not be able to do something. He learned to confront his fears and embrace the possibilities and […]

Vulnerability – A Human Gem

Says David Taylor-Klaus , “Vulnerability is a human gem. It’s a core part of who we are and it doesn’t have to be hard. It just has to be conscious. And when you bring it up to conscious awareness, when you invite it, when you lean into it, it’s not hard, it’s a practice. Being […]

Feed Forward Inspires Quality Performance

People are less familiar with feedforward which inspires quality performance. That’s because there really isn’t any point pointing out to people what they’re really bad at, because they probably already know. The brilliant thing about feedforward is that people at the receiving end of feedforward see aspects of their performance that they are less good […]

Power of Feedback

Debra Allcock Tyler reflects on the power of feedback – “What is the point of saying something to somebody that they are not going to do anything about? Instinctively as a human being we assume feedback is going to be bad. As managers and as leaders, we have an enormous amount of power over other […]

Insights Focusing on Career Change

“Working with a coach is lovely. In that space a coach can really push and prod and poke, just like the journalist would, but in a much more supportive way. You can’t think your way into a career change, because at some point you get stuck. So much is shifting. This isn’t a kind of […]

Boundary Boss Review By Erin Randall and Tesse Akpeki

TesseTalks review on TesseReads “Boundary Boss“, written by Terri Cole – The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free, with special guest Erin Randall who is all about happy people doing great work. Boundaries really matter. In Boundary Boss, Cole models how people can connect with the appropriateness and benefits of […]