In my monthly reflections, I share how the 4 qualities that inform my coaching and courses – arts-based, trauma-informed, reflective and meaning-focused – are showing up in my work and life.

This month: elicit emotional responses in your creative reflections, talk to your brain by slowing down, asking existential questions and trauma-informed leadership.

In my monthly reflections, I share how the 4 qualities that inform my coaching and courses – arts-based, trauma-informed, reflective and meaning-focused – are showing up in my work and life.

This month: the flywheel of inspiration, Sensemaking Studio 2025, safe enough spaces and meaning-making in retrospect.

In my monthly reflections, I share how the 4 qualities that inform my coaching and courses – arts-based, trauma-informed, reflective and meaning-focused – are showing up in my work and life.

This month: my tiny practice, when writing heals, the true versus the adapted self and when to show up from which.

Sensemaking is a process of meaning making. During this process, we’ll change the relationship we have with ourselves and with others; we’ll make changes to how and where we invest our talents, skills, time and energy.

This post explores a helpful framework for change: how we get from skill to trait. I also write more about Sensemaking Studio, an online program in which you learn to cultivate your own reflective practice to support your process of meaning making.

Halfway through this year’s 100 Day Project I’m taking stock - what I have been noticing about this creative process is how it benefits from openness to change, a nurturing community and an awareness of how having an audience can energise or restrict my creative expression.

There are two truths about creativity, both deeply anchored in our neurobiology and our wiring as creative and social creatures. Being creative simply feels good and it’s easier when in (good) company. While there are common foes of creativity, there are also the friends of creativity. Once we know how to summon them, infusing your life with creative acts becomes much easier.

As I reflect on the 100 Day Project and Michael Bierut’s intention behind it, I see parallels with the tension of inspiration and reality identified by the Map of Meaning. The 100 Day project is a low stakes training opportunity to practice and experience the (im)balance between inspiration and reality, or inspiration and discipline and can teach us how to remain hopeful and show up in the face of life with all its messiness.

Book Review of Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit. A book that invites us to (re-)connect with our creativity and cultivate it. Practical, full of engaging exercises and a book which encourages us to see creativity in a context much broader than the usual fields of art or design.