The Wild Courage Collective
4 steps to change your career… when a to-do list or action-plan isn’t cutting it
Sometimes, you come to the end of a chapter of your working life. To find your way through to something new, follow these four steps.
Pivot or U-Turn
Perhaps we are changing as a nation? Perhaps this pandemic is initiating us into a new worldview? Perhaps we are learning to tolerate uncertainty, to accept fluidity and change as we navigate the unknown?
Just One Word: How to bring back the gold from lockdown life
It’s tempting to think about what you will ‘hold on to’ when you return from a transformational experience. But it’s not habits you need to bring back. It’s something more essential. A single word, to guide you deeper into your life.
Coming back from lockdown: Fear, hesitation and possibility in the journey home
As we contemplate the gradual easing of lockdown, what can our hesitation teach us? What gifts will we bring with us from this time in retreat?
You’re not failing as a lockdown parent – you’re just human. How to get my needs met as a mom of two on lockdown?
It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and now there is no village. There are two adults, and a TV. How can I meet my needs and my children’s, as a mom of two on lockdown?
The Power of No: how saying No can lead you to a bigger Yes
It is scary to say no, stand still & not plant anything in your life. Especially when you’re an entrepreneur. But it’s also necessary, to find a deeper YES.
Circular time: trusting the pause at the heart of change
Circular Time comes at the heart of change. It’s awkward, but transformative. It takes us deeper, informing our actions with soul and courage.
Deep rest: finding the courage to stop
The world as we know it is on pause. Will we turn into that pause? Or will we scrabble to stay busy, and miss the chance for deeper creativity and change.
Mindful silence: finding peace in coronavirus lockdown
A quarter of the world’s population are in coronavirus lockdown. How will we change, as we rediscover the deep silence of life?
A Poem for 2020
I move mindfully through my life. I do less, but enjoy it more. Time is as spacious as I allow it to be, and winding rivers reach their destination too.
Say yes: birthing a new world
We are birthing a new world, together. We mothers know how to do this. Can we give ourselves to a hard and painful labour? Trust the moment, say yes.
Hoarding or trusting
Panic buying and coronavirus hoarding. What are we learning about our relationship with trust, and with what we value most deeply?
Wild Courage - the book
Wild Courage: A Journey of Transformation For You & Your Business by Elle Harrison (Watkins, 2011)
What do we do when facing change? Do we resist and shrink back to what is safe, known and familiar? Or do we head fiercely into the unknown, journeying through our shadows towards the creativity and vitality of an emerging world?
Wild Courage is for anyone ready to turn into change. That change might be dramatic or subtle, personal, professional, part of a wider social picture or simply the longing for purpose and meaning. Rather than resisting or surviving these changes, Wild Courage offers a way to creatively engage with them.
Guiding you on an inner journey of transformation, it challenges you to reconnect with little-known, little-loved parts of yourself and life – Dying, Stillness, Intuition, Wildness, Vulnerability, Surrender – and shows how these unlikely qualities are actually a path to growth, fulfillment and power. At the end of the journey you emerge with a more courageous and wider view of who you are and how you might engage more fully with our changing times.
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