I wore one of my favourite (and expensive, designer brand) dresses to present a workshop a couple of years ago. A participant commented casually, at the airport later that evening that they liked it and asked where I got it. I found myself wanting to tell them “It’s X but I got it in aContinueContinue reading “Three Ideas to Connect With, and Own, Your Personal Power”
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The History of ‘Silencing’ Women and Ideas for Redefining Power
In classical Greek and Roman history oratory was by definition a male pursuit and the deeper male voice a prerequisite. A woman who spoke publicly, if it happened at all, was, by definition, not a woman. A friend loaned me this book, “Women and Power” by Professor Mary Beard. Writing about the very long historyContinueContinue reading “The History of ‘Silencing’ Women and Ideas for Redefining Power”
How Power Can Operate in a Workplace
I was reading the Power Threat Meaning Framework published the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology and authored by Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle and others the other day. Find it here if you’re interested. I was struck by how the examination of power relationships in the Framework’s perspective of emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled orContinueContinue reading “How Power Can Operate in a Workplace”
BREAKGLASS COACHING 