The recent death of my mother has stirred up all sorts of reflections, as these things tend to. Jointly organising her funeral with my brother has been a frustrating and wearisome process. I realised that the part of it I found most difficult to tolerate was the way...
In the business world, knowledge, strategy, marketing and technical skills are crucial but they’re not the whole story. The most powerful way to elevate success is to increase your self-awareness. This is of course partly about understanding where your strengths and...
My skills lie in the deep work. I pay attention to what’s going on at the surface, the ‘presenting problem’ and then we work together to uncover some of the layers below. Many of the people I work with are highly intelligent professionals, whether they are grappling...
I often supervise other practitioners in their work with people who present very complex challenges and are often people who manage their suffering by harming others. When I ask the practitioners how they are managing their own wellbeing in this work, I often get the...
This week, I had the opportunity to work with a client to help him understand his harmful sexual behaviour. In my experience, much of this behaviour emerges, at least in part, from projection. Projection is a psychodynamic concept that essentially means we find our...
