by SaraSwati Shakti | Feb 2, 2022 | Change, Coaching, Leadership
Over many coaching and executive leadership years, some leadership qualities have continued to surface consistently. And as I wade through my mandala collection of drawings that emerged over the more recent years of coaching, two snapshot picture stories stand out as...
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...
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...