Last month, we held our mid-year Unwrap: Your Year in Motion, an online session designed to offer something that we often need to create space for – the chance to pause, take a breath, step out of the busyness, and gently consider:
Where am I now, after this year? And what’s shifting in me, or around me?
When we invite people to work visually or physically – using methods like mapping, drawing, or selecting images – we open up access to insights that don’t always surface in traditional discussion. This session at Arethusa College reminded me just how powerful it is to make the abstract concrete, and to bring new parts of ourselves into the room.
Sometimes all it takes is one image to start a whole new way of seeing and speaking.
It’s not always easy to explain but this might help you get a sense of it
In recent weeks, I had the privilege of working with a remarkable group of leaders from Mongolia through the University of Queensland’s International Development Women’s Leadership Program.
Helen Zink and I are teaming up with Crackin’ LnD (Down Under), an energised community for learning and development professionals across Australia, NZ and the Pacific, to share a creative, adaptive approach to leadership, one that helps you tune into yourself, your team, and the moment.
Connection over content is something we hear regularly when working with people.
Some of the most meaningful connections and conversations I’ve had in my work haven’t started with words – they’ve started with images.