by SaraSwati Shakti | Oct 9, 2020 | Change, Coaching, Leadership, Wellbeing
I have been in the mood for reconfiguring, my surroundings. I have recently been in the process of empty nesting, after a significant time of active parenting. Not that being a parent will change, just the daily aspects, of it’s engagements. And not that I am...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Aug 31, 2020 | Change, Coaching, Leadership
I was reminded in a conversation recently about one of my favourite movie scenes. It is in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. One of many cinematic storytelling experiences that epitomises an archetypal hero’s journey, and a filmwatching pastime in which you...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jul 26, 2020 | Change, Coaching, Development, Leadership
I was recently reminded about some words, from the legacy of C.S. Lewis … Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different. And it is a funny group of words on which to focus. Particularly now. As there is...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jul 17, 2019 | Career, Change, Coaching, 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 finding new things to marvel in, before getting back on path. A lovely analogy, on the life of the...
by SaraSwati Shakti | May 20, 2019 | Coaching, Leadership, Self-Leadership
Chaos is a ladder. I have borrowed those words from a line in Game of Thrones. If you, like me, have enjoyed it’s evolving story, it has offered rich fodder for observing the games people play, and the character arcs and manoeuvres that follow. And while it is...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Feb 17, 2019 | Coaching, Development, Leadership, Self-Leadership
I have dipped into a novel again. Yet it is more than just a novel. It speaks to me more deeply. It is by the German Novelist Hermann Hesse (b1877 – d1962) titled Demian. I remember reading The Glass Bead Game/Magister Ludi by the same author when I was a...
