How I Discovered The Simplest Thing That Is Making A Big Difference
Orienting to joy and pleasure is a core part of the work to support change, work together better, and feel better while doing it. Not as an add-on or a distraction, but as an absolutely essential source of capacity and connection.
This is Your Brain on Work Relationships
People need a sense of belonging and purpose, and we thrive through connection and mutual trust, but our workplaces are not set up to encourage trust-based relationships. We can change those workplace structures and cultures by integrating greater practices of trust into our work.
Leading in High Pressure and in High Risk
Fear is a powerful emotion. It can change our judgement and decisions to be less aligned with our values and priorities. When leaders face pressure to make a decision, it’s important to find ways to get aligned with their purpose and the people they are responsible to.
How to Be A Workplace Where People Learn and Grow
When an organization creates enough psychological safety to encourage learning, people are more likely to experiment, take risks, make mistakes they can learn from, and as a result, come up with innovative and unexpected solutions to complex problems.
When Anger Comes to Work With Us
A psychologically safe and conflict capable workplace is one in which people are supported to express and receive anger (and other emotions) in ways that deepen understanding and help everyone make better and more equitable decisions, without creating an environment of fear and distrust.
How to Know When We’re Leading from Reactivity
There is no one right way to engage in conflict, but it is possible to have less reactivity and more choice in our responses. With choice, we can have more fluidity, a sense of capacity, and feel in alignment with our dignity. Leaders have a greater responsibility to develop a range of ways to respond in conflict because of the power attached to their role.
What is Somatic Coaching?
Your body knows how to heal and resource itself. Big Waves uses a range of somatic approaches to help you listen to your body’s wisdom to find your path to greater alignment.
Five Questions to Begin Your New Relationship with Conflict
I used to be afraid of conflict, and I had the survival strategies to match that fear. Sometimes I would come out swinging hard, if I felt righteous, or particularly angry. Other times, I would give up my own needs and boundaries to protect the other person’s feelings, if I was worried about the relationship. […]