At Yellowrattle Coaching, I am opening awareness of the whole experience of what it means to exist in relation to your world. These monthly newsletters bring a different lens to look through ideas, and highlight some links that have helped me explore how I relate to the world.
Open or closed plan design?
Architects are often said to see the space, rather than the building. They see the spaces between things, something they share with artists. A study exploring how they think about space showed that they spoke about thresholds and boundaries– bringing space to life from a 2D picture to an inhabited vision.
It could be valuable to learn from architecture when we think about our relationships – within teams, between colleagues and to clients. Relationships are what happens in the spaces between us; bringing an architect’s eye to make those spaces functional, beautiful and a joy to live in can deeply enhance them.
At Yellowrattle Coaching I centre exploring relationships – with ourselves, our relationship to work and with those in our working lives. Bringing curiosity to see space differently, my clients gain clarity on how they want to architect their space and become deliberate about how they connect.
Improving relationships doesn’t mean moving closer to everyone.
Boundaries are essential to making a space beautiful. However committed you are to open plan living, having a door or two in your home will be essential! Deliberately designing your boundaries and thresholds and how the flow of your relationships work is an investment to help you live beautifully.
If you want to play with your inner architect today – ask yourself the following questions:
Where do I spend most ‘time’ in my work relationships? How am I tending to them? Are there any changes that could make those key relationships feel better?
Do I have a cupboard of doom?? Is there something (or someone) that I dread dealing with? What would it mean to take a deep breath and ask what does that reveal about me?
Are there spaces that with a little work could become sanctuaries or be a more integrated part of my system?
Is there anything (or anyone) where different boundaries might help? Do I need to delineate the space between us?
Things that have piqued my interest this month:
Article / blog that’s got me thinking: Why the past 10 years of American Life have been uniquely stupid by Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic.
Podcast with a ‘ah-ha!’ moment in the last month: Brené Brown and Dr Linda Hill - Leading with purpose in a digital age
App I can’t live without this month: AllTrails - AllTrails was founded on the idea that we’re all made better by spending time in nature. Today, we continue to be driven by the desire to share the outdoors with as many people in as many places as possible — and to do so responsibly and respectfully.
Thing I most enjoyed this month: learning to film video messages with my dog Milton!
As you’ve got this far, would you like to work together?
I am open to working in a consulting, speaking and coaching capacity.
My professional coaching is twofold:
Psychodynamic coaching: understanding why you are resisting the changes you want to make, exploring the defensive tactics that keep you stuck. A deeper investigation using insights from analytical psychology, facilitated through coaching.
Person centred coaching: building your convergent and divergent thinking capability to enable you to gain clarity over how you want to address your challenge or opportunity.
Find out more check out my website here
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