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YSF weekend workshop, 14th April 2018

Your Soul Family weekend workshop for calmness and relaxation

Happiness is about doing what feels good to you. Find out what is important to you and makes you feel good. Painting your soul map will bring you closer to understanding your personal happiness.

Wondering what to do of a weekend?  Come to a Your Soul Family workshop and paint a soul map using one of our templates.  No artistic skills are required, its much like the painting by numbers we did as children. Fun, creative and relaxing – you will be surprised at the insights you receive about you and your life. Feel the calmness come in as you paint. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Mindful men: do we know our men?

In many cultures and communities, men are the leaders at work and at home. They earn a living for the family and have more limited involvement in rearing the children. Of course much of this is changing but it is not ubiquitous yet.

Recently a 55-year-old man from a traditional mining community confided to me he decided not to follow the traditional male role and to express his appreciation of the benefits that mindfulness brought him.  He is a grandfather and decided not to work so hard so he could be more involved with his grandchildren. He wished he had done it with his own children. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Leadership mindset: achieve clarity, inspiration and vision

Bringing calmness into your life: team members’ well-being and good mental health are key to a high performing workforce. However, the reality is that many people at work today experience feelings of being overwhelmed, not able to get through their ‘today’s task list’ and worried about keeping on top of everything.  Individuals can become anxious Sunday evening as they think about the return to work on Monday.

If you cannot run harder you need to run smarter. 

By Alison Wem, ago

Once you find your calmness: you will never want to be without it

When you finally address the need for ‘calmness’ in your life, you realise that making time for silence is essential to your well-being.

For example, having driven 1.5 hours to work on fast and busy roads I pause for just a couple of minutes in my car before I go into the office. My team is always surprised at how cheery and energised I am.

Even a brief time of just ‘being’ can re-charge and re-energise you in what is often a hectic working day.

The quality of your thinking returns and your productivity and creativity soar. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

How do you cope with one of the 3 Ds: divorce, death, debt?

Need help to cope with life’s challenges? You may need some on-going practices to help you with life which develops your insight into yourself and your behaviours plus boost your personal calmness. Beyond being successful at work, these practices can help you to feel more alive, happy and healthy in your life.  Do you need some help with achieving this?

You need a Soul Map!

For me, that realisation came in the early hours one night as, newly widowed and with children and a demanding job as a CIO, I confronted my anguish – and found not chaos and more pain but a space of calmness and route to strength and guidance. read more

By Alison Wem, ago