Welcome to the 7th episode of Reach Minds – Thoughts for Your Life Journey podcast.

Today, we will explore how the Enneagram balances the intelligence of the head, heart, and body, and how to use them together effectively. We’ll discuss how the Enneagram can be a transformative experience, not just by knowing your type, but by using the process to choose tools that bring you more choices. Interestingly, while the Enneagram is rooted in modern psychology, its origins trace back to the Classical world and ancient Egypt.

Today, I am joined by Robert Hutchinson, a personal and professional development coach specialising in Enneagram-based self-awareness training.

In this podcast, we pose the following questions about the Enneagram:

• How did you get interested in the Enneagram?
• How do you integrate this work into your practice? Can you give a couple of examples?
• Can you tell me more about the centres of intelligence and what working with the Enneagram can reveal about them?
• Can we explore the Enneagram’s links to the Classical world and their significance?
• What can the Enneagram do for a person?
• What tips and resources would you offer?

Robert facilitates transformational leadership development that is both effective and sustainable. He helps clients decode their personality ‘operating system’ through a unique combination of world-class coaching and powerful self-discovery training. He is also the Co-Founder of The Gay Happiness Project, a popular mental wellbeing program for gay men.

In addition to his coaching work, Robert is researching the origins of the Enneagram in ancient Egypt. He has presented at conferences in Egypt and Europe and has written articles on the use of the Enneagram.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Connect with Robert on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hutchinsonrobert/

website www.authenticlifecompany.com - Robert is offering a 10% discount on Enneagram consultations to listeners of this podcast – with the code Nita24

The Gay Happiness Project

ENNEAGRAM CONSULTATION

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PROFESSIONAL ENNEAGRAM ASSESSMENT

Free tests can have variable reliability, so to get the most out of understanding your Enneagram type, a professional test is highly recommended. Use this link to book the world-leading iEQ9 Enneagram Test:

https://www.integrative9.com/RobertHutchinson/enneagram/test/individual/

ENNEAGRAM INFOSHEET

To learn more about the Enneagram here is an information sheet:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hkma4az89m0h0r17772iu/ALC_The-Enneagram.pdf?rlkey=o4t08f39zz2mgcao3c388uox5&dl=0

BOOKS:

1. Enneagram Made Easy: Explore the Nine Personality Types of the Enneagram to Open Your Heart, Find Joy, and Discover Your True Self

Deborah Threadgill Egerton

2. The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self

Beatrice Chestnut

Welcome to our 10th episode of ‘Reach Minds - Thoughts for Your Life’s Journey’ podcast.

In this podcast, I am joined today by Anji Gopal, a back care expert and founder of the Back Care Foundation. We explore the mind-body connection and the need to address the root causes of physical and mental discomfort, offering simple wisdom for better health. We also discuss viewing our body as a vessel that needs maintenance and care, and developing daily practices that incorporate gratitude, breathing, and movement.

In this podcast, we pose the following questions on simple wisdom for better health:

1. Why do we need Simple Wisdom? The world is getting more complex, and people like us are delving deeper into science and meaning.
2. What does Better Health ACTUALLY mean? How do we know what better health is?
3. How do you combine your work as an Osteopath and a Yoga Teacher to address the body and the somatic health impact on the mind?
4. Don’t we need lots of time to find better health? No! Small things, done with regularity, consistency, and commitment can be really powerful. (I think it’s important to discuss this somewhere - we want to debunk the myth that only acrobatics and thin women can achieve better health.)
5. Can you give some examples of Simple Wisdom for Better Health?
6. What insights or pearls of wisdom do you want to leave people with?

Anji's work focuses on using yoga-based practices as an evidence-informed way to achieve better health for patients, students, and organisations. Over the last 15 years, she has built clinical expertise in Yoga for Back Care, having run an innovative yoga-based program for chronic back pain patients in a London hospital. As an ex-banking professional, she understands that time is often short, but believes in the power of simple, practical, and powerful techniques to support our health. From this, Simple Wisdom for Better Health was born.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Website www.backcarefoundation.com

Telegraph article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/stress/stress-back-pain-exercises-to-fix-it/

LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/anji-gopal-630827182

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/backcarefoundation/

https://www.facebook.com/backcarefoundation

Newsletter sign up: (Website) anji@backcarefoundation.com

Do you want other articles on simple ways to find calm https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/30-simple-ticks-banishing-stress-body-3047738

Osteopathy Today https://backcarefoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Anji-Gopal-Autumn-OT-2022.pdf

Welcome to the 9th episode of Reach Minds – ‘Thoughts for Your Life Journey’ podcast. Today, we will be exploring career transitions, focusing on the internal changes and psychological shifts we encounter and how we manage them. The world of work has changed enormously, particularly since COVID-19, with more people working from home, more people on zero-hours contracts, multiple generations in the workplace, and the arrival of generative AI.

I am joined today by my colleague Janice Taylor, a career and leadership development coach.

In this podcast, we pose the following questions on career transitions:

• What got you started working with clients on career transitions?
• Janice, you mentioned aspects of your own career journey. How does this connect with the work you do with your clients in terms of patterns and observations about careers today?
• What internal changes do you see your clients go through in the context of an imposed ending or a choice?
• What kind of models do you use that are helpful for clients, such as the Hudson Renewal model?
• What would be your departing wisdom for people listening to this podcast?

Janice helps her clients make choices and changes that move them forward with renewed energy, focus, and resilience. They develop the capability to continuously create their future and become more fulfilled.

Janice is also currently writing her first book, Thin Sandwich, a collection of stories based on her four years as an undergraduate engineer in the early eighties.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Connect with Janice on LinkedIn, Instagram Visit her website;

Website: www.blueskycareerconsulting.co.uk

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janicetaylor2

Blog: www.careerresilience.wordpress.com

Medium: https://medium.com/@bluesky1001

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluesky1001

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janicetaylor.bluesky/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jermainelmurray_dear-job-seeker-you-are-not-crazy-some-activity-7225532815289847810-1RgF/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Source: https://careerresilience.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/renewal-and-change-where-are-you/

https://www.careershifters.org/expert-advice/how-to-change-career-when-youve-no-idea-what-to-do-next

Books

• The Renewal Cycle as conceived by Frederic Hudson
• Transitions, Making Sense of Life’s Changes - William Bridges

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom – Anais Nin

Welcome to the 8th episode of the ‘Reach Minds: Thoughts for Your Life’s Journey’ podcast. Today, I am joined by the lovely Sandrine Giacobino. Sandrine will share the magic of yoga and how it can bring us self-compassion, help us be more present, and accept ourselves, among other benefits.

In this podcast, we pose the following questions on yoga magic:

• What drew you to the essence of yoga, and you shared that you ‘Feel the Love.’ What does that mean?
• What is your philosophy when teaching and practicing yoga?
• How have you benefited?
• How have you changed in the process?
• What continues to inspire you?
• What benefits have you observed in others?
• What brings you joy to continue doing this?
• What tips or resources would you offer to others to tap into their own magic of yoga?

I first encountered Sandrine Giacobino when I attended her Yin yoga class. It didn’t take long for me to realize that Sandrine was a special teacher who brought much more to her classes than just her practice. Her readings of poetry and phrases resonated deeply with me and others in her classes. Sandrine, before we begin, I would love for you to share a poem that has meant a lot to you.

What Other Reason Could There Be - from the Tao Te Ching

Life is always too short. We will never be able to see everything we wanted to see, do all the things we wanted to do, or achieve all the successes we thought so important. But to arrive at a quiet mind, and a serene spirit, is the supreme accomplishment. If we do this, we have done all.

Do what you can each day. Enjoy your goals and plans. But the cultivation of your spirit is your greatest task. What other reason could there be for the life you have been given?

Sandrine has a portfolio career. She started in communication within the film industry, aspiring to be a runner. However, she wasn’t quite satisfied with her work in the film industry, so she decided to travel to India to study massage, and as they say, the rest is history.

Sandrine began practicing yoga in 2001 and “fell in love with it.” Two years later, after completing the Sivananda teacher training and teaching for a few months, she travelled to Mysore to study Ashtanga yoga and meditation. This was just the beginning of many years of traveling and studying different traditions, healing practices, spiritual approaches, and yoga with various teachers.

She has studied with some of the best teachers, either in Europe while living in London or during her travels. Her classes mix a variety of styles according to what is needed at the moment. As a long-time student once said: “I never had a single class that was the same during all these years.” London has long been her main home between travels, but she has also taught in Thailand, Bali, South Africa, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Sandrine teaches more and more yin classes, where she finds that the real essence of yoga is a slow, passive practice that allows us to dive into the silence and stillness where everything comes from, allowing us to reconnect to what we truly are.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Highly recommend Sandrine and if you want to get hold of her here are some of the places

*https://www.sandrinegiacobino.info/

*https://www.sandrinegiacobino.info/blog

*Insta: sandrine_giacobino

Welcome to our episode of ‘Reach Minds: Thoughts for Your Life’s Journey’ podcast.

In today’s show, we explore how vulnerability can be a doorway into connecting with our human fragility. This concept is often overlooked in ourselves and when working with leaders in organisations. How do we, as practitioners, acknowledge or discuss human fragility when we see it in our clients or leaders, particularly as part of the change and transitional process where uncertainty and anxiety could be present.

Today, I am joined by Steve Hearsum, a consultant supervisor and coach, and the author of No Silver Bullet: Bursting the Bubble of the Organisational Quick Fix, which examines how leaders and organisations unconsciously collude with the purveyors of quick-fix, silver bullet solutions for complex challenges. Steve is a board member at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and was formerly the Co-Chair of the Organization Development Network Europe.

In this podcast, we pose the following questions on Fragility:

• How would you define fragility in layperson’s terms?

• When do you think fragility is evoked, and what do you see as the relationship between fragility and shame?

• You often talk about the ‘self as an instrument.’ Can you give an example where you acknowledged your own fragility and took action on it?

• What tips and insights can you share when confronted with our own fragility?

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

No Silver Bullet: Moving Beyond Quick Fix Solutions in Business and the Psychology of Change Management Paperback – 28 Mar. 2024

https://amzn.eu/d/cXf7GiJ

• www.edgeandstretch.com

• www.hearsum.com

• Steve Hearsum (17 Oct 2024, 17:24)

• https://thinkers50.com/radar-nominations

• Mans Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl

• The Self as an Instrument–A Cornerstone for the Future of OD

• By Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge

Tips:

1. Reflectivity

2. Getting comfortable with not knowing

3. Owing your own Fragility

4. Self inquiry

5. Courage and curiosity

Episode 5 – The Dynamic of Shame

Welcome to our 5th episode on Reach Minds – ‘Thoughts for your life journey’ podcast. In this episode, we will explore the dynamics of shame, its occurrence, and strategies for managing it. Shame is around us, inside us, and between us, embodying difficult feelings.

I first encountered the concept of shame through Brené Brown’s extensive work on the topic. However, it wasn’t until my supervision course at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations that I truly began to understand how shame is integral to our learning and relational experiences. It often arises from the need to be seen and the fear of being judged by others. In this episode, we also explore how shame relates to and differs from embarrassment, humiliation, and guilt.

Today, I am joined by Dr. Eliat Aram, who has been the CEO of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations for the past 16 years. Eliat is a Chartered Director (IOD), a Chartered Psychologist (BPS), a UKCP registered Gestalt and Humanistic psychotherapist and supervisor, and a pioneering member of the Complexity and Management Centre at Hertfordshire University. Her theoretical understanding spans complexity theory, organizational studies, Gestalt psychotherapy theory, and system psychodynamics. She is a keen practitioner of the TIHR’s Group Relations enterprise ‘learning through experience practice’ and has directed dozens of Group Relations conferences internationally, including the ‘Leicester conference’ since 2007.

You can find out more about Eliat Aram by visiting the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) website https://www.tavinstitute.org

In this podcast we pose the following questions on shame?

• How would you define the dynamic of shame?
• What role does culture and society play in shaping our understanding of shame?
• What are the common triggers for shame?
• How does shame does it differ from guilt?
• Is Shame universal?
• What are some effective methods or practices for overcoming shame?

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

https://www.tavinstitute.org

You can find out more about Eliat Aram by going on to the Tavistock institute human relations website https://www.tavinstitute.org

Winnie the Pooh. A.A Milne

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Jean Paul Sartre in Being and nothingness 1956)

Here are the main books where she delves into the subject of shame:

Brené Brown has written extensively on the topic of shame, with several of her books focusing on this theme. Here are the main books where she delves into the subject of shame:

1. **"I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from 'What Will People Think?' to 'I Am Enough'" (2007)**

2. **"The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are" (2010)**

3. **"Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead" (2012)**

4. **"Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead" (2015)**

5. **"Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone" (2017)**

6. **"Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts." (2018)**

These books collectively provide a comprehensive understanding of shame, its effects, and how to build resilience against it, all while embracing vulnerability and authenticity.

Episode 4 - Importance of Nature, Journalling and Reflective Writing

Welcome to our 4th episode on 'Reach Minds - Thoughts for Your Life Journey' podcast. In this podcast we welcome we the lovely Jackee Holder as my guest. In this podcast Jackee Holder shares her wisdom and importance of nature, journalling and reflective writing.

Jackee describes herself as an urban city walker and enthusiast of the health and well-being benefits of connecting and engaging with trees and nature inside urban environments which she integrates in all her work.

Jackee has a portfolio career as a Leadership coach at executive and board levels, on leadership development programmes and as an expert promoting the health and wellbeing benefits of journaling, expressive writing and nature wellness.

Jackee has written three non-fiction titles, two illustrated nature themed writing maps, Writing With Fabulous Trees and Re-Wilding The Page Writing Maps. In 2016 she self published the Inner & Outer Nature Self Discovery card deck, a collection of 49 nature inspired journal writing prompts bringing together the benefits of nature and therapeutic writing.

Her work has been featured in several anthologies including; The Big Book of Journaling, Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists and Clients, The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives, Inside Creativity Coaching and 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments.

Jackee lives in London and whenever she can she starts her day, to takes precious ten minutes of gifting herself to either journal or take an early morning walk amongst the trees.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Website: www.jackeeholder.com – On Jackee’s website you can access for free ‘The writing-the-Labyrinth Tool-By-Jackee-Holder

Instagram: @jackeeholderinspires

Linked In: Jackee Holder

Free Journaling & Nature Inspired Resources

Writing The Labyrinth, Green Prescription, Nature Manifesto, The Journal Journey Book & Juicy Journaling Free downloadable resources: http://www.jackeeholder.com/goodies-resources/

Published Books with Journaling and Nature Themes

• Writing With Fabulous Trees: A writing map for parks, gardens and other green spaces (text and writing prompts by Jackee Holder in collaboration with Shaun Levin. Illustrated by Flavia Felip (2019)
• Rewilding The Page: A writing map for connecting with nature in cities, towns and urban spaces (2020)
• 49 Ways to Write Yourself Well: The Wisdom and Science of Writing and Journaling (2013)
• Inner and Outer Nature Self Discovery Card Deck (2020) – 40 Nature Inspired Journal Writing Prompts for Inner and Outer Self Discovery
• Write To Flourish - Monthly Journal Writing Column Psychologies Magazine

Anthologies I Have Chapters Published In

• This Is Our Place: A Nature Writing Anthology by Spread the Word (Legacy of South London Oaks)
• Intrinsic: 12 Deep Rooted Connections with The More Than Human World edited by Eleanor Cheetham (In the Company of Trees)
• The Big Book of Journaling by Eric Maisel & Lynda Monk (Journaling to Connect with Nature's Wisdom)
• The A-Z of Coach Supervision Techniques by Michelle Lucas. (Tree Perspectives & Writing The Labyrinth).
• The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives: 50+ Inspiring Exercises from Creativity Coaches Worldwide. (Tree Metaphors for Self-Enquiry)
• Inside Creativity Coaching by Eric Maisel. (Chapter: Refilling The Creative Well: Finding Voice and Flow)
• Peer Supervision in Coaching and Mentoring: A Versatile Guide for Reflective Practice: Tammy Turner, Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker. (Writing The Labyrinth, Experiential Writing Tool