Author: judyjosephmcsween
If you chat long enough with Judy, at some stage of the discussion, the importance of being still and reflecting will surface in the conversation. It is hard to imagine that someone who exudes such passion and energy actually takes time out daily to sit still for 20mins twice a day. However Judy would be the first to admit that her daily meditative practice has contributed to her success with her organisational development interventions.
Clients continually express surprise at her ability to engage workshop participants in open and honest discussions, on highly contentious interpersonal and organisational issues, while she contains a relaxed and respectful climate in the room.
The duality of her persona is exposed as she convulses into spontaneous laughter, bringing elements of fun into her strategic planning leadership development and team building sessions.
Her energy is contagious, so do not be surprised if you succumb and find yourself and your team mates working into the wee hours to complete a workshop assignment, so that you are able to spend the next day in introspection and reflection :-)
TIME OUT – When Doors Open … The First Doorway
When Doors Open, my final blog for 2013 – and like a door that can be opening and closing in a single movement, this blog closes off 2013 and marks the beginning of 2014. To that extent I believe that doors are in fact always opening. The action is analogous to the act of surrender, … Continue reading TIME OUT – When Doors Open … The First Doorway
Time Out – Unleash your iPower
In an episode of Britain’s Got Talent, Simon Cowell stopped a young performer 12 year old Shaheen Jafargholi in just over a minute after the start of his performance with the words “you’ve got this really wrong”. He suggested that he sang another song. What resulted was internet history http://www.godvine.com/Simon-Cowell-Humiliates-a-12-Year-Old-Boy-But-Watch-This--1742.html . Shaheen unleashed his iPower … Continue reading Time Out – Unleash your iPower
TIME OUT – Reflections on a Time Out Experience
Every couple months, I take a small group of individuals to a nature resort for a Time Out. The purpose of this retreat is to pull away from the madding crowd and commune with self and nature, as they seek clarity on specific issues in their personal or professional lives. The tranquility provides the ideal … Continue reading TIME OUT – Reflections on a Time Out Experience
BEING OPEN with JOHNNY C TAYLOR, JR …. you don’t know what you can do until you do it
So it’s October 31st 2013. A normal day? I think not,because besides my morning meditation, there is never anything “normal” about my days.It was just about 11.00am that I sat down in the foyer of the Marriott Courtyard, to wait for Johnny C Taylor, Jr. The purpose? To facilitate a Frameworks Coaching Session®. And this is where my … Continue reading BEING OPEN with JOHNNY C TAYLOR, JR …. you don’t know what you can do until you do it
TIME OUT for FOCUS
Today's Leadership Challenge - FOCUS. How many of us will attend meetings today in which attendees will be:- regularly glancing at their BBs and iPhones- thinking of the work they left behind to attend this meeting- what they have to do after this meeting- just sitting waiting for the appropriate moment to share their views … Continue reading TIME OUT for FOCUS
Time Out – In Search of An Expert Optometrist
The best decision making is undertaken with a combination of 20:20 vision plus intuition. While there may be many who claim not to have 20:20 vision, this is easily rectified through the use of spectacles, laser surgery and seeing through the eyes of another. The precursor of course is that the individual has to acknowledge … Continue reading Time Out – In Search of An Expert Optometrist
Time Out with the Hummingbirds
I find it peculiar when people comment that they know all they need to know about a subject - that they are already a resident expert! Today I had a beautiful revelation that reminded me that (i) each day provides us with the opportunity to learn something new, if we are open and receptive and … Continue reading Time Out with the Hummingbirds
In Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room”, the Room is described as “home to Jack, but to Ma, it’s the prison where she’s been held since she was nineteen-for seven long years.”
Mental confinement versus physical confinement.
For some of us, we may consider these one and the same. There are few people who enter into physical confinement willingly. Perhaps monks and nuns do when they choose to spend the rest of their lives in a cell, as their sleeping quarters is called. There is not much difference in the size of the cell that a single convict is assigned to and the one assigned to a monk or nun.
The difference really lies in their mental states. The prisoner is not only confined physically, he is confined mentally. He longs for the day that he can be freed from captivity. He lives in the future.
For monks and priests, the perspective…
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Time Out …… 24 hour Time Out Personal Rejuvenators
Over the last couple months, individuals have been contacting me to say “Judy, I need one of your Time Outs, what’s it like?” I could go on ad finitum about my personal experience, but I usually refer them either directly to those persons for whom I have facilitated sessions, or to their feedback responses. The … Continue reading Time Out …… 24 hour Time Out Personal Rejuvenators
are you ready for a time out? 