Writing and Ideas - Movement For Change

Community Embodied Flourishing Gratitude Pleasure

Singing with Ancient Trees

Back around the Spring Equinox I went with a group of lovely singers out to sing with the ancient trees of Epping Forest. Some of us were known to one another, some of us were new. We sang, practised embodied tree contemplation, ate together and…

Milla19th July 2024

Strategy Systems Wellbeing

Developing a Charity Wellbeing Strategy

Resources for Autism (RfA) is a national charity supporting people with autism and their families. With 250 staff and 60 volunteers, RfA provides services in London, Birmingham and online.I worked with RFA to review organisational wellbeing (levels, drains and supports) and to put together a…

Milla10th May 2022

Anger Jedi Conflict Capacity Relational Resilience

Why work with anger?

I’ve been posting a little about anger recently, and some different ways of viewing it in our lives. But why is it important in the context of the voluntary sector workplace? I reckon there are two main reasons – to avoid damaging our relationships and…

Milla21st February 2022

Critical thinking Gratitude Meditation Teachers Yoga

The shoulders of giants

This feels like a tough one to write. In some ways it’s easy to pick out the teachers who have meant the most to me, whose ideas and support have strongly influenced this work. But picking some means leaving others out. And I know that…

Milla23rd January 2022

Embodied Flourishing Relational Resilience Systems

My approach – relational, embodied, systemic

Relational, embodied, systemic. Sounds great, right? Almost fancy. These are the big ideas that form my approach – the lenses through which I see the world - but what do they mean in practice, when working with people, organisations and the wider sector culture? 1)…

Milla23rd January 2022

Flourishing History Pleasure Resilience

Beyond resilience

When I started this work, my vision was pretty limited. I looked back at the suffering and burnout I had experienced and that I saw in others around me. My questions were: How can this be a bit less awful? How can we survive long…

Milla22nd January 2022

History

My story

Back in the ‘oughts' I was working in charities, first in Fair Trade internationally and then back in London, in financial inclusion projects. It was fast moving work with high pressure targets and we were all working flat out with limited resources. Staff turnover was…

Milla22nd January 2022

Flourishing Maps Resilience Systems Wellbeing

Wellbeing – it’s a systems thing

When you’re exhausted and overwhelmed, it’s easy to feel as though it’s all your fault. Our culture encourages this through individualism – the illusion that it’s all about personal choice – both the cause (why don’t you manage your time better?) and the solution (why…

Milla4th September 2019