It's fall.
The temperatures have dropped and it's pitch black when I wake up to go to the gym. The days feel short and I'm a bit anxious knowing they will get shorter. I'm enjoying wearing long sleeves and cooking hearty soups and stews. I'm back drinking hot coffee. I don't hate it.
On the weekend my gardening buddies and I cleaned up the garden. Gardening with them is like the best group project ever, it's fun and easy. We pulled out the dying zucchini, squash and pole beans. We pulled out the flowers that are 80% done. Then we blanketed the garden with 12 bags of fallen leaves that someone grabbed before the compost truck could. We tucked the garden in for winter.
Composting turns the organic scraps into rich compost which can be dug back into the garden.
Creative destruction can clear out space for new possibilities. This can be useful in our lives, work and relationships, organizations and more.
Last night I got to get creative and weird with Em House (one of my most favourite people to collaborate with) and a group of people that signed up for our workshop Create & Destroy.
We invited people to make art about something they wanted to let go of. Then we took a break and most of us destroyed what we created, then talked about the space and possibilities that opened up. Some people knew what was coming for that space. I didn’t, but I can feel it emerging.
If you want to share what you're composting, hit reply and let me know.
Can I partner with you and your workplace?
Several people have reached out as they're in budget planning mode for next year.
Let me know if I can help you with quotes for:
- 1:1 leadership coaching
- team development work
- inclusion strategy
- offsite design and facilitation
If you don't know what you need reach out to have a conversation. I can help you articulate what problem you're trying to solve and how we might do that together.
Coaching
As a coach sometimes I'm the first person to hear someone's idea or revelation. It's an honour and responsibility that I don't take lightly.
I've been offering one-off 30 minute coaching sessions and a few people have used them as confidential dream incubators. People dream out loud about the business they've been thinking about for years. People dream out loud about changes they want to make to their relationships, health, money, or careers. People dream out loud about the audacious thing that keeps waking them up in the middle of the night. I get to witness them and help them sharpen the focus on how they might bring that dream a little closer to reality.
Do you have a dream you're ready to speak out loud? Reach out.
I'm offering 8 of these sessions in October and November. There's 7 sessions left for October and 3 left for November. Each session is 30 minutes and costs $20.
Resources
Listen to a bedtime story
Vancouver Writers Festival created a phone number you can call and have a children's book read to you by a famous literary author. The first one I listened to was The Giving Tree read by Kai Cheng Thom.
There's something about hearing someone read you a story on the phone that's sweet and intimate.
Thanks Sam at Second Story Coaching for sharing on his Instagram account.
Watch a film
Tangles is an animated movie, directed by Leah Nelson, based on Sarah Leavitt's graphic novel. This is an important story about Alzheimer’s disease that's beautifully animated.
The Vancouver International Film Festival's description reads:
Abbi Jacobson voices Sarah, a queer magazine illustrator based on the West Coast, in Leah Nelson’s touching and darkly humorous animated film. Torn between worlds, Sarah is forced to put her budding relationship with her biker girlfriend Donimo (Samira Wiley) on hold to tend to her ailing mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) across the country. As her mom’s once vibrant and outspoken personality is eroded by early-onset Alzheimer’s, their big, eccentric family (including Bryan Cranston as Sarah’s father) must find the courage to pick up the pieces.
A star-studded cast of comedians lend their voices to this adaptation of Vancouverite cartoonist Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir of the same name. The film’s surrealist flourishes viscerally evoke the throes of anticipatory grief: from Sarah’s psychedelic panic at losing her mom in a Día de Muertos carnival crowd, to the dissociative sensation of drowning at the news of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Tangles exemplifies the expressive emotional power of 2D animation.
It's not available to stream online yet. Its still making it's way around film festivals. This coming weekend it'll screen in LA at the American Film Institute and New York at Newfest. There are also screening dates set for: Hawaii, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia and more. In Europe you can see it in Rome, Hamburg, Geneva, Stockholm, Vienna. And in Korea at Bucheon and Singapore.
See some art
If you're in Vancouver, I highly recommend going to the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr to check out the exhibition of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Gordon Hookey's paintings. It's a couple of giant paintings and some smaller works.
It's really powerful. I sat in front of this 20-foot-high painting and felt a lot of emotions coming up inside me: sadness, rage, hopelessness, anger and more.
Make sure you go into the back room and check out Gordon Hookey's dot painting.
Other ways to work with me
- 1:1 coaching — 3 or 6 month packages. Book a free chemistry call to see if we're a fit. Your workplace might have professional development funds you can use, or you might ask your manager to invest in you.
- Team offsites — I design and facilitate in-person experiences for teams. I love especially love facilitating beginnings and endings. I'm actively looking to do more of this, especially in person. Reply with the basics (who, what, when) and let's talk.
- Speaking — keynotes, panels, fireside chats. I'm a strong interviewer if you need someone to draw out a great conversation. Here's my current keynote on leadership and values.
- Inclusion consulting — strategy, thought partnership, and culture work for organizations building high-performance inclusive workplaces. Reach out here.
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