by SaraSwati Shakti | Sep 5, 2017 | Change, Coaching, Mindfulness
It’s wonderful windy Sydney again. An annual blustery and blowy end of August beckoning in what September and Spring will bring. I love the wildness of the wind. Listening to it is one of the most vital of expressions. It howls and whispers at the same time. It...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Aug 9, 2017 | Career, Change, Coaching
Making transitions with career positions, particularly when facing redundancy, can present a mindfield of considerations. Decisions to make. Concerns to address. How to manoeuvre through adjustments. Leaving an old role and generating new opportunities. And the time...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jul 20, 2017 | Change, Development, Leadership
One of my favourite pastimes is bushwalking. Finding new walks that are not so easily marked. Going off the trodden way, to have a look see, with curiosity, and to find new things to marvel in, before getting back on path. I lovely analogy, on the life of the...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jul 4, 2017 | Change, Coaching, Self-Leadership
Occasionally, when it seems appropriate, I see couples during transition coaching programs. On one such occasion a new coachee saw me for an initial appointment. He was referred to me by a caring colleague. I saw in him, underneath the discussion, a brokenness that I...
by SaraSwati Shakti | May 23, 2017 | Change, Leadership, Poetry
How Precious This Life This One Precious Life Your Life My Life Our Life One Life Life How Precious! This One Precious Life May we Appreciate, Participate, Love, And Venerate This One Precious Life May we create Holy Happiness, Blissfulness, Delightfulness, and...
by SaraSwati Shakti | May 15, 2017 | Change, Personal Development, Self-Leadership
One of the difficulties that presents, in moving seamlessly through transitions, is ruminating about the past. The should have’s, the could have’s, and the wish I had’s, that can cling to the psyche, with persistence. And it often comes up when...