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20 October 2023

Thinking Partner sessions – all you need to know

by Michelle Howie
You might have seen my new offering to book a Thinking Partner session. I've described it like this,  "This is an hour of space to listen to yourself, think quietly and get an occasional nudge from a trusted guide. You're looking at a 60 minute meeting with Michelle. You're here because you have things to think through. Michelle will listen, sit quietly and witness while you do your thinking. You can ask her to coach you more actively, you can chew her ear off for 60 minutes straight with no words edged in at all! This session is all yours, so you own it." If you want to know more about what that includes, how it works and whether it fits your needs, well read on.CONTINUE READING
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Category:Conversation, Honesty, Thought/thinking, Uncategorised, Wisdom
25 October 2022

Story-telling is over-rated

by Michelle Howie
There sure is a lot of hype around story-telling these days. There has never been so much training and coaching available for people wanting to hone their public speaking, presenting or pitching skills. And we have the neuroscience behind it too, we know that our brains light up like the Eiffel tower at Christmas time when a good yarn is being spun. Story-telling is big business now – and undeniably it has a role to play in meaningful learning - so then why do I think it’s over-rated?...CONTINUE READING
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Category:Business, Conversation, Honesty, Leadership, Learning, Thought/thinking
18 May 2021

Love tastes like space: a short story

by Michelle Howie
He pushes me to answer, wants to hear my voice wrap meaning around his fragile idea. Wants words to act like glue and bandage. I don’t respond, not ready yet, so he pushes me again. “What is love? Put it in your own words, come on. You’re the book worm, you’ve read enough to have an idea. We’re in love, aren’t we” (a statement), “…so how would you define it?” The room does a cool trick where it goes small and big at the same time. Dizzy.CONTINUE READING
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Category:Honesty, Love, Relationships, Thought/thinking, Wisdom
18 January 2021

Anxiety and our experience of it

by Michelle Howie
The online Oxford dictionary defines anxiety as “a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.” There has been a lot of uncertainty in 2020! Are there more people experiencing anxiety? We are a long way from having hard data on the impacts of COVID-19 on our wellbeing but anecdotal evidence suggests most people have felt a bit more worry, nervousness or unease. Yet life is actually always uncertain, we’ve been dealing with uncertainty our whole lives. Covid-19 has just rather abruptly brought a focus on uncertainty. So what is anxiety, how do we experience it and what can we do?CONTINUE READING
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Category:Leadership, Peace of mind, Thought/thinking
3 May 2018

Thoughts That Don’t Stick

by Michelle Howie
I woke up at 5am with great big thoughts. This happened on Friday 5 July 2019.  The date and the time are very clear to me, because the thoughts were so big and so vivid that I felt sure it would be one of those unforgettable moments in my life. So much certainty, in that moment. These were big thoughts. At the time of writing this, I am four days ‘post-moment' and things look different now. Sorry for the buzz-kill, this is not a particularly exciting blog about a momentous insight and how life changed forever at 5am on 5 July. This is a pretty ordinary blog about what happened to my thoughts between 5 July and 9CONTINUE READING
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Category:Resilience, Thought/thinking, Wisdom
3 May 2018

Climbing the Hill

by Michelle Howie
This morning I climbed the Hakarimata summit track alone. To put that in context, I've only done the track about a dozen times in total over the last 12 months so there is no pattern of regular habit here. I have never gone alone before, I normally go with Shawn my husband and once we did it with the kids...very slowly.  It's a beautiful track, filled with birdsong and bush. It's nature's gym these days, a well-worn track used by many, many local people pursuing physical goals or simply aiming for the view from the top. CONTINUE READING
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Category:Exercise, Resilience, Thought/thinking

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