Pause for August

We will be taking a small breather from the weekly adventures for the month of August. An opportunity to take stock, reflect, reconnect, reset.

I will still be sending out an email each Tuesday. But it will be a brief (& very ignorable) suggestion for how you might use each week to reflect on your journey so far.

The suggestion for the week of the 3rd August is to think about:

• What adventures have most blessed you and why?
• Are there any clues in this for how you can continue to best develop your thinking?
• Might you want to take the opportunity of this pause to revisit those adventures?

The suggestion for the week of 10th August is to reflect back on our Objective. Our purpose in Leading by Adventure has been to exercise and nurture the skills and attitudes of seeing change as an adventure – both in ourselves and those around us.

• To what extent are you aware of any shift in your own skills and attitudes in stepping into the opportunities of change?
• How would you most liked to see yourself develop in this way?
• To what extent have you been able to realise that?
  What do you think have been the reasons for this?
• What do you want to do differently when the adventures restart on September 7th?

The suggestion for the week of 17th August is to reflect back on the Process we have been using. Our approach in Leading by Adventure has been to provide small challenges and exercises we can use to deliberately shift our perspective and see things differently for a few moments. It is not so much about the task as about exercising our will, ability and enjoyment to engage with these opportunities.

• How has that been working for you? To what extent has the process enabled you to practice these things in yourself?
• What do you see as the biggest factors in this?
• What do you want to change when we restart on September 7th?

The suggestion for the week of 24th August is to reflect back on the leadership aspects of our adventures. The different tracks in Leading by Adventure are about providing a pathway to extend your own adventures and make them available to help those around you to develop their own skills and attitudes in stepping into the opportunities of change.

• How has this been working in your own situation?
• What has been the response of the team?
• What do you think are the reasons for this?
• What might you choose to do differently from September?

And finally, for the week of 31st August, and based on your reflections to date, how can Leading by Adventure better support you in helping yourself and those around you develop attitudes of adventuring into the opportunities of change? Please email me via the email address below and let me know any thoughts or ideas you might have to make this more effective for you. 

Our next adventure begins on 7th September. How can you help extend the reach of Leading by Adventure? To enable more people to benefit from this? Please encourage others to benefit from freely subscribing to our Adventures. 

I am not going away for August, I am still here, working from Home so, if you would like to connect, feel free to contact me directly …