What Drains You. What Restores You.
A Gestalt inquiry into energy – and why we so rarely tend to it honestly. Most of us manage our energy the way we manage our finances when we are avoiding the bank statement. We have a rough sense of things, we hope it’s not as bad as it feels, and we carry on. There […]
Two Nervous Systems in the Room
There’s a moment that happens in coaching sessions that nobody really talks about. Your client starts describing something, a conflict at work, a decision they can’t make, a relationship that’s grinding them down and before they have finished the sentence, something shifts in you. A tightening. A held breath. A sudden urge to fix, or […]
Staying at the Edge — When We Don’t Cross
Not every threshold gets crossed. Sometimes we arrive at the edge of something, a change, a conversation, a truth we have been approaching for months and we stop. We turn back. We find reasons to wait, to reconsider, to stay a little longer in the familiar. This is not failure. But it is worth understanding. […]
The Invisible Cost of Always Being Available
On leadership, the reflex to solve, and the deeper value of stepping back. There’s a version of leadership that feels productive because it’s constantly busy. This blog asks what that busyness is actually costing. If I shifted more of my time from ad hoc requests to coaching my team, the value I would create would […]
The Awareness Cycle
How We Come Alive — and Where We Get Stuck The beating heart of gestalt and a map for understanding almost everything in this series. If you have been reading this series, you have already been living the awareness cycle. This blog names it and in doing so, ties everything together. A note before we […]
You Are Allowed To Stop
On rest, guilt, and the strange difficulty of doing nothing A lighter blog this time, though the question at its heart is a serious one: why is stopping so hard? Let’s start with a confession. Many people, when they finally sit down to rest, don’t actually rest. They sit there thinking about all the things […]
The Voice That Says You’re Not Enough
Shame, the inner critic, and what Gestalt teaches us about both There is a voice that most of us carry into work each day. This blog is about learning to hear it and what becomes possible when you do. There is a voice that most of us carry into work each day. It doesn’t announce […]
When Work Chafes – Finding Your Way Through
Here is a Gestalt approach to navigating the friction, drift, and pressure that quietly reshape how we work together. There are stretches of working life where everything moves smoothly, decisions land cleanly, conversations flow, and you rarely have to think about how you are doing things. You simply do them. And then there are other […]
Holistic Leadership: Purpose, Empowerment, and Balanced Presence
What it means to lead as a whole person and why that changes everything. Leadership has been taught as a set of skills for long enough. This blog makes the case for something deeper and more human. There is a version of leadership that is essentially technical. It can be learned from books, developed through […]
So What Actually Is Gestalt Coaching?
A proper introduction to the approach for those who are new, and those who have been here all along. Thirteen blogs in, it felt like time to properly introduce the approach that has been quietly running through all of them. A note to those who have been reading this series: if any of the previous […]