December 2011

Stress Management and the Power of Breathing

Are you Feeling the Stress?

The holiday season is here! And we’ve all felt it. That inescapable feeling that we have too much work on our plate, and wonder how in the world we are going to get it all done without going insane. In comes our old friend Mr. Stress. What we do in the next six seconds is critical to our engagement levels.

What is Stress?

Uncontrollable demands at work are potential stressors, but not the stress response itself. Stress is the effect we allow these demands to have on us physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Crossroads

Paradoxical Leadership

In working with several clients over the last few months as well as noticing my own leadership behaviour working with the Tekara community as we go through change, I have come to understand more clearly the power of “paradoxical leadership”.