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03/06/2024

My front garden for a few days -

22/12/2023

04/05/2023

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21/04/2023

Work, me and the baby!

Come and join this ground breaking podcast with Helen Sachdev and Alison Green, hosted by Karen Griffin, where we talk about the work being done to raise awareness and support for working parents and organisations.

Did you know:
Only 16% of executive positions are filled by women? and…
80% of UK companies are still paying their women less than their men?

Employers are losing great women at the stage they become a parent.

Evidence is now showing challenges associated with the take up of male parental leave.

These and many other angles on this important topic are discussed.

Click the link below to listen.

https://space2bespodcast.buzzsprout.com/1817593/12695745-episode-20-work-me-and-the-baby-womba-with-helen-sachdev-and-alison-green

28/03/2023

When you think of ’strategy’ do you immediately think of ’strategic execution’? If not, read on.

www.space2be.co/taking-the-journey-towards-optimised-strategic-execution

28/03/2023

What problems are interfering with your strategy right now?

03/03/2023

Many believe we are in the middle of a global mental health crisis.

Here are some reflections on the issue for individuals and organisations.

03/03/2023

We hope your 2023’s are going well…

03/03/2023

As we head in to the weekend here is a reminder of the wonderful poem called REST by David Whyte.

REST

is the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be. Rest is the essence of giving and receiving; an act of remembering, imaginatively and intellectually but also physiologically and physically.

The act of hating ourselves for our procrastinations is the act of refusing the deeper, foundational layer of rest from which true action can come.

To rest is to give up on the already exhausted will as the prime motivator of endeavor, with its endless outward need to reward itself through established goals. To rest is to give up on worrying and fretting and the sense that there is something wrong with the world unless we are there to put it right; to rest is to fall back literally or figuratively from outer targets and shift the goal not to an inner static bull’s eye, an imagined state of perfect stillness, but to an inner state of natural exchange.

This template of natural exchange is the breath, the autonomic giving and receiving that forms the basis and the measure of life itself. We are rested when we are a living exchange between what lies inside and what lies outside, when we are an intriguing conversation between the potential that lies in our imagination and the possibilities for making that internal image real in the world; we are rested when we let things alone and let ourselves alone, to do what we do best, breathe as the body intended us to breathe, to walk as we were meant to walk, to live with the rhythm of a house and a home, giving and taking through cooking and cleaning. When we give and take in an easy foundational way we are closest to the authentic self, and closest to that self when we are most rested. To rest is not self-indulgent, to rest is to prepare to give the best of ourselves, and to perhaps, most importantly, arrive at a place where we are able to understand what we have already been given.

In the first state of rest is the sense of stopping, of giving up on what we have been doing or how we have been being.

In the second, is the sense of slowly coming home, the physical journey into the body’s un-coerced and un-bullied self, as if trying to remember the way or even the destination itself.

In the third state is a sense of healing and self-forgiveness and of arrival.

In the fourth state, deep in the primal exchange of the breath, is the give and the take, the blessing and the being blessed and the ability to delight in both.

The fifth stage of deep rest and arrival is a sense of absolute readiness and presence, a delight in and an anticipation of the world and all its forms; a sense of being the meeting itself between inner and outer, and that receiving and responding occur in one spontaneous movement.

A deep experience of rest is the template of perfection in the human imagination, a perspective from which we are able to perceive the outer specific forms of our work and our relationships whilst being nourished by the shared foundational gift of the breath itself. From this perspective we can be rested while putting together an elaborate meal for an arriving crowd, whilst climbing the highest mountain, moving a herd of sheep along a Cumbrian country lane or sitting at home, surrounded by the chaos of a loving family…

Rested, we are ready for the world but not held hostage by it, rested we care again for the right things and the right people in the right way. In rest we reestablish the goals that make us more generous, more courageous, more of an invitation, someone we want to remember, and someone others would want to remember too.

…

‘REST’
In
CONSOLATIONS:
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning
of Everyday Words. © David Whyte & Many Rivers Press
REVISED EDITION 2020

…

Lioness at Rest
Photo © Gayle Karen Young Whyte
Edited : David Whyte
Segera,
Kenya. Feb 22nd 2023

23/02/2023

Is culture change on your agenda?

Catch our latest meander and key reflections on what and why.

https://www.space2be.co/why-2023-should-be-the-year-of-cultural-change/

22/02/2023

A simple, but helpful reminder 🙂

21/02/2023

It’s a pleasure to share our latest podcast episode featuring leadership veteran Andy Meehan talk with Karen Griffin MBA, MSc. Griffin about leading boards.

This 42 minute conversation traverses many topics including;
💠 Getting the best out of boards
💠 Board leadership qualities
💠 Likely challenges over the next 5 years
💠 The Shamrock organisation
💠 The difference between NEDs and Trustees
💠 Diversity and much more!

https://lnkd.in/eU7NU68C

20/02/2023

Metaphors are great for nudging deeper thought.

In what ways do you need to flex to maintain your resilience right now?

15/02/2023

We are 7 weeks in to 2023… how are you doing?

How is your personal resilience?

See here what latest research tells us about burnout… more soon.

09/02/2023

In this podcast Kathryn McEwen and Karen Griffin talk about Team Resilience, what it means, the practicalities of building it, the need for a systemic approach and its relationship to ‘high performing teams’.

A thought provoking discussion exploring challenging ideas such as;
- Is the idea of a ‘high performing team’ now dead?!
- Are ‘high performing teams' a destination or a dynamic state?
- Given the complexity of teams today how useful really is ‘global benchmarking’, or should teams be just benchmarking against themselves?

Click below to listen.

https://space2bespodcast.buzzsprout.com/1817593/12219364-episode-17-the-importance-of-building-team-resilience

01/02/2023

In this episode Andrew Wallas explains the difference between intention setting and goal setting and together we explore why intentions are key to delivering bigger outcomes.

Please find our normal podcast format here: https://lnkd.in/eTCY5XvF

#2023

31/01/2023

We are delighted to introduce Executive Coach, Strategy and Team facilitator Jennifer Campion, to our associate team.

Jennifer has an excellent background in strategy and consulting working across many industries. Astute, observant and warm… we can’t wait to work with her.

24/01/2023

Keep going with those new year intentions!

#2023

20/01/2023

How are your January goals and intentions going?

What’s the difference?

Take a peak…

09/01/2023

On a day when sadly more National strikes are being announced we thought we’d share a quote on employee engagement!

We believe that pay is a hygiene factor - i.e. a basic that has to be right. We are proud to work with many clients who do provide this to their employees.

It’s becoming more difficult to engage people in all the strategy, performance and so on, if the basic pay isn’t enough to pay the bills. We hope fair and reasonable solutions can be found asap where all parties get their most important needs met and a wider systemic perspective is taken on these ongoing challenging organisational dilemmas.

#2023

03/01/2023

Given our current context these are our ‘top of mind’ 7 areas of recommended focus for 2023.

Despite the economic outlook join us in feeling positive about the forthcoming year. Let’s forge our own futures by deciding how to show up and focusing our energies wisely.

Good luck everyone!

#2023

03/01/2023

We wish you all a wonderful 2023… full of happiness, good health, personal growth and kindness.

At Space2BE, we’re going big this year on ‘intention setting’ as opposed to restrictive goal setting. We’re anticipating another rollercoaster of a year so let’s see if our guiding intentions keep us supported.

Let’s all shine our light on each other as we co-navigate a further VUCA and BANI year.

#2023

21/12/2022

We wish you all a wonderful restful Christmas and a healthy, happy 2023.

21/12/2022

For our final 2022 podcast please enjoy “It’s a Wrap” with Dr. Lynne Sedgmore, Gwen Stirling-Wilkie and Helena Clayton.

Space2BE’s take on ‘Loose Women’ as we embrace the seasons spirit, take stock on 2022 and provide personal perspectives on the challenges and their implications.

We traverse many subjects including; 2022 challenges, our relationship to hope, love in the workplace, VUCA, BANI, exhaustion, resilience, self-care and celebrating imperfection!

Please find our normal podcast format here: https://lnkd.in/e-aDu6Jt

If you prefer to watch a video follow our YouTube link here: https://lnkd.in/eGRVxNMh

#2022

21/12/2022

Shared by James Hollis in his excellent book ‘Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life; How to Finally, Really Grow Up’ is a quote by Rumi… have you truly understood your own life purpose?