by alterendeavors | Jul 10, 2023 | Blogs
In coaching others, what are strategies to support resilience—the capacity to meet adversity with strength? We’ve identified a few at Gestalt Coaching (and let us keep adding what works.): 1. Be in Your “Use of Self as Coach” Get curious about your...
by alterendeavors | Jul 6, 2023 | Blogs
“Mindfulness” has become a favored competency and way of being, not only in leadership training and practice but also in personal effectiveness. Such is the power of the concept that it seems to have ubiquitous desirability. Yet the concept has been around for...
by alterendeavors | Apr 22, 2020 | Blogs
An unusual phenomenon is happening as we are, for our own survival needs, being asked to engage in physical distancing (PD). Though it may feel better to say PD rather than saying social distancing, the loss of social custom(s) has significant consequences. We are...
by alterendeavors | Apr 27, 2018 | Blogs
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. (attributed to Theodore Parker, 1853) A disturbing event recently took place in a Starbucks, the globally trendy café, in an American city. It’s an event that reveals the...
by alterendeavors | Oct 31, 2017 | Blogs
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I? If not now, when? – Hillel A business client once told me she just did not have the time for the self-work that so deeply influences our actions and interactions, professionally and...
by alterendeavors | Sep 14, 2017 | Blogs
“You cannot feed your own soul. Connecting is food. – Sonia Nevis Sonia was a tiny woman, about 5 feet tall, but everyone who knew her thought she was always the biggest person they were lucky enough to meet. She had the kind of depth that made little children smile...