5th Jun 2015
Choreography as art and as conversation
The moment will come for each of us to take our bow from the workplaces in which we perform each day.The moment will come when we are ready to leave and others will take our place.Watching the ...
The Brightside blog captures systemic thinking and practice about the choreography of coaching conversations - and shares ideas about personal and team leadership development. The blogs are informed and shaped by Brightside work and by dance, literature, art, poetry, nature, film and world events.
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17th Mar 2015
Giving way to conversation
What happens when conversations come to a full stop? When conflict riddles the work space, or a particular team, and puts at risk the performance and the profitability of a sector, or of a whole ...
9th Mar 2015
The frames through which we view our worlds
Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer, the founders of solution focused brief therapy, viewed their clients within the systemic webs to which they belonged at home and at work. And then they took ...
23rd Feb 2015
Four different ways of listening
When was the last time you felt somebody listened to you? Really listened? With an appreciative eye and an enquiring mind? In a way that made you feel valued and that you had something important, ...
9th Feb 2015
With whom do you relate?
Some years ago I was asked to interview someone who had lived large in the public arena with a specific public persona to accompany their role. It was towards the end of their career and they ...
26th Jan 2015
What’s your story?
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book, known to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.”Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room.We live in a storied world. Pick up ...