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Okay, so I was on a roll with this one! Here are several more myths and truths about our roles in service to others.   The helping professions involve sacrifice. Sacrifice is synonymous with loss and disadvantage. If we feel we have given up something that is of value to us, we will begin to […]

I had so much fun with this one that I decided to divide it into two parts! Let’s unravel some of the old adages we have all ascribed to in one way or another over the course of our professional lives. Helping Professionals have the answers. They are experts in solving others’ problems. Helping Professionals

If you want to cross the bridge from fear to excitement, there is one thing you need for the journey…curiosity.   Half-Way Point I read somewhere that July 1 – Canada Day – marked the exact half-way point through the year 2016. Wow! I knew it was moving quickly – that was solid evidence.

Most of us are familiar with the term “sounding board.” “Hey, I just wanna bounce something off you…” “Can I run something by you?” We use this term to describe a kind of communication we engage in when we are looking for guidance, feedback, ideas, validation and sometimes, allies. Most of the time, it goes

Picking up from where we left off last week, here are some more strategies to help you really build momentum with self-care and self-expression within challenging work environments.   Create Safe Sounding Boards What will it take to support each other in the ways we would offer support to someone accessing our services? From

What will it take for us to stop hurting each other and ourselves in the workplace? If you are a helping professional, you have likely experienced the toxic work environment – maybe, you’re in one right now. You know – high workload demands, lack of time and funding, too much paperwork, disgruntled colleagues, waiting lists,

Now that you have a sense of how you experience resonance and resistance in your life, here are a few guidelines to work more effectively with these two very powerful forces.   Learning through Resonance and Resistance I like to think about resonance and resistance as key indicators for my own personal growth that challenge

Resonance and Resistance – two internal responses that I have found to be so useful in the process of not only hearing my intuition, but also trusting and following it. One often feels more fun than the other! In this first part, we’ll explore these responses and how we might experience each in terms of

How can we work to transform health care and human services systems? What seems to be missing from our systems to take them to the next level of efficiency and high quality service in our communities? Questions like these tend to get us focused on what is missing – things like adequate funding, more resources,

Frame of Reference Experience is one of the key features of our personal lens. Remember, the personal lens is the way in which we view our world, our circumstances, our current experiences. We look through this lens as a means of interpreting the events of our lives and the events of the world. We look