Crossing the Bridge

Crossing the Bridge

  • Asserting boundaries

    It’s interesting, isn’t it, the way people react to you asserting boundaries in your work? I don’t know about you but whenever I assert a boundary, people think I’m going crazy. I’m not. I’m just letting you know that you cannot manipulate my purpose to serve you instead of serving me. Boundaries are absolutely essential…

  • The introverted systems thinker

    It’s Sunday morning and I’m in my favourite place – my office. It’s warm and cosy. I’m surrounded by personal artefacts that have great meaning. I have plants and ambient lighting. I have a window and I can see trees and bushes and I can hear the birds on my roof. I have my books…

  • The joy of creating

    Whilst I am in the midst of family bereavement at the moment, I have also managed to embrace an exciting and invigorating week that has reawakened in me the joy of creating. Creating insight expressed in writing. Creating new and different ways of looking at things, of putting them together and making them useful. Creating…

  • Video links for ‘Crossing the Bridge’

    Welcome to ‘Crossing the Bridge’ – a systems thinking practitioner’s learning journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKRW37rGbUc A human touch online: https://youtu.be/PxHyVPKyH8I Who are the systems thinkers in systems change work: https://youtu.be/Q96XeUipNX0 Love and social connection in systems change: https://youtu.be/RA_x33jvBOE Hidden gems: https://youtu.be/HPkCgfCg2qo Power struggles in systems change: https://youtu.be/TOlocZo6U7Y Insights from a systems thinking approach: https://youtu.be/sXnsqu95PqY On first introduction…

  • Welcome!

    Welcome to the ‘Crossing the Bridge’ website. In the upcoming blog posts I will be sharing with you extracts from my book Crossing the Bridge. I will share the experiences I had on my learning journey into systems thinking and Creating the Conditions for Change©.