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Yes, I do read novels.
Despite all my posts about all the non-fiction, professional development books, I do have a life outside of work. Recently, through the recommendations and insights of my friends and colleagues, I have been exploring another realm of book that I didn't know existed -- Romantasy. It's a genre that I never would have explored on my own. And yet, I can't stop reading. It's become a drug.
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I don't usually work very much during the summer.
My corporate clients usually want their Spring book circles over by mid-July, and they don't resume again until September. Instead, I spend my summers supporting a non-profit that has an education and social justice focus, as part of their 3-month long Mid-Year Festival. This summer is no different.  Rather than share my thoughts about this book this week, I will share some quotes, and you can decide for yourself if it's one that intrigues or inspires you.
💬 "There is no mathematics to worthiness." 👉 "Everything that makes our lives possible is provided by the lives of more-than-human beings."  When I moved to France 11 years ago, I needed to reset and pivot my business from in-person coaching, to virtual coaching.
The pond got a whole lot bigger. In the process of doing so, I took several online business building classes, one of which featured the work of Sally Hogshead.  I can look at a piece of art and see something beautiful.
I can also look at a piece of art, and have absolutely NO connection to it -- thinking my children could have done it better. Now, imagine being a piece of art yourself. This was one of the activities during my facilitation retreat this past weekend. Our facilitator selves were the art, with a poster description, much like the small plaques next to a piece of art, and the other participants were the "museum visitors."  Like most people of my generation, my parents are in the early stages of "getting old."
Obviously, we are all "getting older", but they are in their 80s, and it's not the same caliber of "getting old" as many of us. Last December, my mother fell while navigating the sleeping dog, in the dark, on her way to the bathroom. She broke her sacrum and pubis bones in 5 places. It's hard to explain what I do in English.
It's even harder in French. Yes, the word "facilitatrice" exists in French, but not very many people use it. And no one knows what it means.  I have so many books in my "to be read" queue, and I often have no idea how they got there.
This is one such book. I loved the title of it, and thought it would be easy to incorporate into some of my work. What I didn't realize is that the author is an Episcopal Bishop 😲 I left religion behind, while studying theology at university, and I haven't looked back since.  I know that I judge myself and others.
I think anyone who thinks they aren't judgmental are either delusional, or highly, and I mean highly, evolved. It was nice to have someone else affirm my beliefs -- according to Shirzad Chamine, the "Judge" is our master Saboteur, the one EVERYONE suffers from. This judge shows up in one of three ways. 1) We judge ourselves. 2) We judge others. 3) We judge circumstances. My two children NEVER had training wheels on their bikes.
Instead, they learned to ride with a balance bike -- the bikes with no pedals that you push with your feet. As a result, when they got on an actual bike, they barely needed support. It was totally UNLIKE my experience, where my father spent weeks running alongside me, holding me up, as I tried to gain my balance on my own two wheels. Yesterday, in a meet up with some fellow facilitators, we focused on UNPREPAREDNESS as a topic. |
Hi there!I am Theresa Destrebecq. |
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