Of course this resonates, I expect with everyone reading it! After listening to the podcast with Robert Poynton a few days ago, I realised that I should pause when mentally tired after working, when my brain can't take in any more information, but it's very difficult to remind myself to do this.
It can be really hard, that’s where active rest is sometimes helpful, offering a nice bridge between work and rest. Thanks for read in and listening 🙏🏻
Oh I hear you on performative! This is something I find hard to untangle myself from because it was just ‘how we did it’ when I worked in a corporate environment. I would work late to ‘get things done’ but now look back and wonder if I just wanted to be ‘seen’…I spent so much energy on proving myself.
So often it’s the water we swim in and we don’t notice it for what it is. And we can’t separate ourselves from it, enmeshment is the psychological term for it. Awareness is key, as it is for almost everything.
Thank you for putting words to some of what it feels like to grapple with time. I enjoyed reading this a lot. Our relationship with time can feel like an ability we are just assumed to understand but can be the most challenging to lead - tapping into all sorts of psychological battles in my experience (saying 'no', making the case for less over more, feelings of no agency...). This has been a helpful reminder to look at how we can hold space for different paces, rhythms, experience. Thank you!
Thanks Gillian. Yes, I think we are just assumed to understand our relationship with time. Now I’m curious about we learn about time, beyond how to tell the time. Might have to go back to Prof Alison Clark’s work on slow pedagogy.
Oh that is interesting! I wonder too if there has ever been anything written on 'slow andragogy' or 'slow professional development'?! You have sparked an interest!...
Of course this resonates, I expect with everyone reading it! After listening to the podcast with Robert Poynton a few days ago, I realised that I should pause when mentally tired after working, when my brain can't take in any more information, but it's very difficult to remind myself to do this.
It can be really hard, that’s where active rest is sometimes helpful, offering a nice bridge between work and rest. Thanks for read in and listening 🙏🏻
Oh I hear you on performative! This is something I find hard to untangle myself from because it was just ‘how we did it’ when I worked in a corporate environment. I would work late to ‘get things done’ but now look back and wonder if I just wanted to be ‘seen’…I spent so much energy on proving myself.
So often it’s the water we swim in and we don’t notice it for what it is. And we can’t separate ourselves from it, enmeshment is the psychological term for it. Awareness is key, as it is for almost everything.
Thank you for putting words to some of what it feels like to grapple with time. I enjoyed reading this a lot. Our relationship with time can feel like an ability we are just assumed to understand but can be the most challenging to lead - tapping into all sorts of psychological battles in my experience (saying 'no', making the case for less over more, feelings of no agency...). This has been a helpful reminder to look at how we can hold space for different paces, rhythms, experience. Thank you!
Thanks Gillian. Yes, I think we are just assumed to understand our relationship with time. Now I’m curious about we learn about time, beyond how to tell the time. Might have to go back to Prof Alison Clark’s work on slow pedagogy.
Oh that is interesting! I wonder too if there has ever been anything written on 'slow andragogy' or 'slow professional development'?! You have sparked an interest!...