The first two months of this year have been so dark (weather-wise) and hectic (work-wise) that it all felt like one long unrelenting January lasting 59 days and now suddenly it’s March and the daffodils are out!
There was: So. Much. Training.
Lesson learnt and note to self: in future, agree to no more than 2 training sessions per week, because they are easy and fun to deliver but very time consuming, and they don’t leave time to do much of anything else!
There was also: One Big Project
I’m working on a 6-month contract bringing together the governance framework for the recently formed Alliance for Wales’ Rainforests. It involves many people and holding a number of thoughts about several different aspects of it in my head at the same time. It lives rent-free in my brain pretty much all of the time (even though the contract is technically for 1.5 days per week) because there’s so much to it. I am enjoying it, but it’s definitely been my principal focus; I’m entering the final phase of writing up and sorting out the final details now. Time has flown and I finish in 6 weeks’ time, already, gosh.
After that I’m having a week off in the sun to reset my braincells.
There has been and still is: much thinking of thinks.
During the winter break (on 24th December, actually!) I did some reviewing of what’s important to me and set myself some goals for 2025, in 6 areas of my life and work. I nominated 2025 the Year Of Me: the year in which I focus on figuring myself out a bit more, and work out what I want from life, the universe, and everything. In past recent years my focus has been very external, on my organisation and on other people’s support needs and well-being, but now I am back fully freelance with quite a different set of work choices and commitments – so I have some introspective catching up to do.
I have fortnightly coaching-stroke-therapy-stroke-supervision (depending on what work and life have been up to and so what needs looking at that week), with a coach/therapist/supervisor I have been working with for about 4 years now. So far in 2025 we have already been examining some biiiig topics (like unravelling my patterns around money and financial security, which I’ll write about at some point in a separate post maybe).
I have also started a 6-session monthly coaching series with a friend and colleague who’s a systemic-coach-in-training, and in those I’m focusing on figuring out all the facilitation-related stuff that has been swirling around my brain for a few years: I could do this, or that, or the other… Where do I focus my energy and time next?
What is important?
*IS* it important?
I shall report back, watch this space.
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