by SaraSwati Shakti | May 16, 2022 | Career, Coaching, Leadership, Purpose, Wellbeing
Love is simply the the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. These words are attributed to Plato. Plato revered beauty for revealing the mysteries of the soul. And for me that was how I felt when I was working with people. Loving, interested, and amazed at...
by SaraSwati Shakti | May 5, 2022 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Development, Spirituality, Wellbeing
The first time I watched the talk below I was running my consulting business, Connecting Hearts and Minds. It became a great teaching tool for combining the worlds of feeling and function. Or as I call it, spirit (of heart) and structure (of business), in the focus of...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Feb 2, 2022 | Change, Coaching, Leadership
As we embark on a new lunar year, I have been contemplating on leadership quality. Over many coaching and executive leadership years, some qualities have continued to surface consistently. And as I wade through my mandala collection of drawings that emerged over the...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Nov 16, 2021 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Development, Wellbeing
There is no doubt that the last year has presented many opportunities for deep healing. Amazing chances, and choices, to overcome, and wade through challenges, with intense feeling. And the opportunity, to cultivate joy, and to appreciate, more greatly, what we hold...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jan 17, 2021 | Coaching, Development, Mindfulness, Self-Leadership
It is amazing what can be created in just one minute. Yesterday I drew a sketch. It took one minute. It wasn’t perfect. Yet it created a minute of meditative pause, and a small piece of beauty, that wasn’t there previously. After a period of stressful...
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...
