“Our job is to excavate the unsaid,” Brené Brown tells us in her Netflix special, The Call to Courage. It’s a critical but underemployed lesson in management.       People often share with me their frustrations about a lack of progress at work – not being...

This June, it’s my 10-year anniversary of being a sannyasin, which means ‘seeker of truth’. More specifically, I’m an Osho sannyasin, a follower (in a sense) of the Indian mystic who became globally infamous in the 1980s.   When I tell people this – usually...

In Part One of this post, I talked about needing more integration in my life and my coaching work – and how Zen Coaching became part of the solution. To show how this approach works in practice, I’m going to describe the arc of a ‘typical’ session. Of course, there’s...

Integration has been a recurring theme in my life over the past several years. Previously, my attempts to find ‘balance’ involved lurching somewhat wildly between extremes: five years of hard labour in high-rise offices followed by a year or two getting my hippy fix...

In my previous incarnation as a business consultant, one of my biggest fears was to be caught on the hop without a good answer. My stock-in-trade was expertise, authority, knowhow. Confessing to a client or colleague, “I don’t know” seemed like a...

As we saw in Part One, businesses are duty-bound to set out specific goals and projected returns – but authentic mindfulness doesn’t respond well to this kind of marshalling. So where does that leave us? Is ‘corporate mindfulness’ a self-cancelling oxymoron, or can we...

Did you see the Buzzfeed article that everyone was talking about recently? It pointed to ‘burnout’ as an endemic psychological condition of the Millennial generation. In a long, world-weary dissection of her own and her peers’ life experience, Anne Helen Petersen...