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Learning from the Light: What Auroras Can Teach Us About Learning
How can we create the optimal conditions where learning can shine just as naturally when safety, openness, and shared purpose meet?
Is your supervision approach cultivating active or passive learners?
When supervision becomes a space for reflection, co‑creation and experimentation, you nurture professionals who actively engage in their own growth, and in turn deliver higher‑quality, agile, evolving care.
Staying Afloat to Be a Steady Lifeline for Others
When the waters around us become rough, what keeps us buoyant? What allows us to continue supporting others without being pulled under ourselves?
Reflections on the end of the Year: Protecting Your Energy, Presence, and Well-being
Wishing you a restorative, nourishing, and joy-filled end to the year.
“When the Signal Drops” – Leading Through Fluctuating Bandwidth
Bandwidth isn’t just about managing demand. It’s about preserving the capacity to be who we truly are, thoughtful, creative, and connected.
Navigating Change with Psychological Safety in Mind
When supported by transparency, psychological safety, reflective learning, and transformational leadership, change can instead become a powerful catalyst for growth and innovation.
Providing Feedback That Builds Confidence and Connection
Feedback is about building strengths, guiding growth, and cultivating relationships of trust.
Strengthening personal agency our hidden superpower
When we build our capacity for self-awareness, self-leadership and self-management, we don’t just feel more empowered - we ARE more empowered.
Leading from Within: Growing Strong, Safe and Sustainable Leadership
In the ever-changing terrain of healthcare and human services, leadership is not only about holding authority.
The Ebb and Flow of Thriving at Work
Are we expecting too much from ourselves? And more importantly, are those expectations helping - or harming - our capacity to grow?
What Happens When You Are Kind to Yourself
We speak kindly to colleagues, offer empathy to the people we support, and extend patience to others. Yet when we stumble or fall short, we turn inward with criticism.
Leading with Care When the System is Under Strain
Leadership in healthcare is not for the faint-hearted.
How Feedback Shapes Trust, Learning and Team Culture
It is not about performance and pointing out the problems with someone’s work or style. It is about supporting genuine professional growth and enhancing someone's work life. It is also about respect.
From Capable to Accountable: Recruiting Self-Leaders
Self-leadership is the ability to take ownership of one’s role, behaviour, wellbeing and impact. It is about being reflective, not reactive. Proactive, not passive.
Saying ‘No’ today is a way to keep saying ‘Yes’ tomorrow
Saying no is hard when we care. But every time we say no to something that drains us, we’re saying yes to something that sustains us and gives us more energy to support the work we need and / or want to be carrying out.
From Surviving to Thriving: How to Cultivate a Positive Workplace Climate
Discover how to shift your workplace from survival mode to a thriving, positive climate. Learn practical strategies to build psychological safety, boost team engagement, and support wellbeing.
Building a Thriving Ecosystem: Aligning Leadership, Culture, and Strategy
Creating a thriving workplace is about bringing leadership, culture and strategy into sync to ensure your team performs at its best.
From Criticism to Curiosity: How Questions Can Transform Leadership
Are you creating space for reflection, curiosity and collaboration, or are you unintentionally putting people on the defensive?
Is Life-Work Harmony the New Balance?
For years, we’ve been chasing “work-life balance,” trying to equally divide our time and energy between personal and professional priorities. But what if the goal isn’t balance at all? What if the real answer is harmony?
Navigating Tricky Conversations with Grace: A Framework for Constructive Dialogue
Tricky conversations are a part of leadership, but they don’t have to be something you dread.