

Collaborating across distance
"My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times". Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women who Run with the Wolves Is there a new acronym for the times ‘pre and post Trump inauguration’? Regardless, I flew to Namibia for 3 weeks soundly in the ‘pre’ time, and arrived back in the ‘post’. The stark contrast of a 6am landing at Heathrow in early February with the hot, bright and colourful world I had left only 12 hours previously echoing something of the differe


Falling leaves sprout new connections
In early January I completed my first 12-week Working Out Loud (WOL) circle. It was not the first circle I had started, or the first I had seen benefits from, but it was the first time an on-line group I was part of got the whole way to 12 weeks (well, technically we lost 1 person in week 1 but following that the remaining 5 of us made it to week 12). It’s fascinating how much the circle and those in it became part of my weekly life and routine, 12 weeks is a long time – as