Adaptability, change and cooperation

We know that adaptability is crucial to maintaining and improving the world around us, and to getting along with others.

In Australia and globally, we have adapted to this dreaded virus. And in doing so have decreased the severity of its impact.

Being deliberately adaptable means if something is not working for you, or us, then do it differently.

Sometimes on a personal level, we can miss the target, lose our way, struggle with others, or just can’t seem to get what we want. Some people struggle with personal adaptability more than others.

To be adaptable is to be flexible, resilient, modifiable, conformable and changeable.

This means doing something different. Now read that again, adaptability means doing something different.

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Holding space

This week Australia acknowledged both Naidoc Week and Remembrance Day. It makes me think about 'holding space'. Holding space is when we are physically, mentally and emotionally present for someone, as they experience their feelings.

Holding space is when we are physically, mentally and emotionally present for someone, as they experience their feelings.

Holding space is about being with someone without judgement and not trying to ‘fix’ them.

We can hold space in our families, with mates, with loved ones, and with people we cross paths with as they share their experiences and stories.

Sometimes it is just sitting with someone and listening. We can focus on their story, ‘listen to understand’, temporarily putting our own needs and opinions to the side.

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