Art of Awakening

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile” This is an introduction by Mihály Csikszentmihalyi, in his ground-breaking book on Flow, from 1990. Proud presenter posing with her graphic recording on “Flow” Yesterday, I had the opportunity to flow more into this topic by Experience De

Put a Bench in Your Garden for Reflection: How Visual Tools & Metaphors can Boost Your Coaching Practice Perhaps the greatest skill a coach can bring to their practice is listening. When you add drawing to your listening, you give your client a tangible tool which reflects your collective listening and sense-making I have always had an appreciation and admiration of coaches. They remind me of a skillful gardener with a great bag of seeds for planting ideas, and a bountiful ba

We are all looking for new and meaningful ways to bring more engagement to our meetings. How about a visual card deck with the key points from your workshop or presentation? Here’s a case study of how we did this with one client who teaches “financial storytelling”. “Accounting in a Box” began as live scribing in James Leong C Foo excellent workshop: “finance for non-financial people”. After the workshop, we debriefed with the client, decided on content re-structuring and ord