'Setting the Stage' - Practice 1 to avoid the 'Authority Trap'. In the last blog, I spoke of 4 practices that would assist with avoiding the 'authority trap'. 'Setting the Stage' (or create a 'holding space') will be the focus of this post. This is in essence about...
Yesterday was a special day. It seems like days run into each other these days, as many activities and life as normal has stopped during Covid lockdown. Yet, this weekend the Irish ladies hockey team had the opportunity to play the reigning Olympic Champions in a...
As we draw the 'Dancing with Complexity' series to a close, we would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas. It obviously won't be the usual one, but hopefully it will be an opportunity for rest for some of us, whilst acknowledging those working on the front line who...
This is the 2nd blog of this series 'Dancing with Complexity' where we explore the possible instead of the forbidden in these times. This blog was written by a friend of Gerry’s - Gerard O’Rourke and it focuses on wellness and the outdoors, especially in the context...
This is the first of a series of blogs from our ‘ Dancing in Complexity’ series. The idea being that we endeavour to change our lens of our current situation in lockdown to look at what’s possible instead of what’s forbidden. Gratitude is one of a number of themes...
As Ireland enters its second week of its second lockdown, and weariness sets in, we want to offer a perspective on how we can ‘dance with the complexity’, a phrase coined by Donella Meadows. In this instance, rather than focusing on what we can’t do, we would like to...
With the explosion in noise around the concepts of resilience and well-being, one would be forgiven for thinking these were new ideas belonging to the 21st century. In fact, in both Roman and Greek mythology, Hygieia was the goddess of health. Spa treatments were the...
Eight years ago, I spent about ten days in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government learning about the difference between ‘adaptive’ (complex) and ‘technical’ challenges. Eight years on, Covid-19 is playing out as the most significant adaptive challenge in my...
What gets you out of bed in the morning? This is a question which has almost certainly been directed at you and which I’d imagine you have asked of others at some point. In asking or answering the question, we are typically trying to understand our daily motivation...
In recent months, all of us have experienced some level of disruption to our lives, the scale of which will have depended on so many factors: front-line worker or not, experience of family bereavement or illness, fear of loss, requirement to juggle childcare with...
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