by Susan | Aug 7, 2024 | Awareness, Communications, PlayShops
Navigating Life’s Messiness and Supporting Your Team Through Challenges Life can get messy – sometimes daily! This morning, I heard a big announcement that had come via email on August 1 that I had completely missed. I sometimes get overwhelmed by email and especially...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2024 | Awareness, Communications, PlayShops
Navigating Morning Chaos Mornings! I value sleep over being on time for morning events. I will add 15 minutes to the time I think it will take me to get ready if it’s important. Still, I feel rushed. This morning my alarm didn’t go off. It turned into one of those...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2024 | Awareness, Communications, PlayShops, Relationships
Lessons from Nature and Community I love to wake up to the birds singing. The last few nights it has been cool enough to sleep with open windows. When I go to sleep there is a cacophony of sound, crickets, frogs, and a few of the cows had their calves weaned so they...
by Susan | Jul 17, 2024 | PlayShops
Lessons from Horse-Rider Dynamics to Team Building I’ve been listening to a podcast by a horseman. In one he was talking about the energy between a horse and a rider. How it needs to balance between them for them to be a team. My horse Zandy had a lot of nervous...
by Susan | Jul 10, 2024 | Lessons From the Horses, PlayShops
What Horses Teach About Patience and Presence It’s been a beautifully mild week for the first week in July. The horses are always teaching me new lessons. Morning Mindfulness with Ace and Patty This week it’s been to be present and mindful when going out to get Ace...
by Susan | Jul 3, 2024 | Awareness, Communications, PlayShops, Relationships
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth The Power of Effective Team Retreats Sometimes I feel like...
by Susan | Jun 26, 2024 | Awareness, PlayShops, Relationships
The Lost Art of Mindfulness Mindfulness seems to be a buzzword lately. Being present in the moment has a lot of advantages.The Lost Art of Family Connection Have you ever been someplace with your loved ones only to have everyone looking at their screens? When we took...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2024 | EGC, Gestalt, Grief
This is a difficult time of year for me. My dad’s birthday was May 29. Grandpa died around May 30. Dad died June 11. Father’s Day falls in here somewhere. Mike died on June 28. And Mike’s birthday was July 6. Then in 2020, only 17 days after Dad’s death my first...
by Susan | Jun 16, 2024 | Relationships
It seems to me there is a connection between them. When I lost my dad in June of 2020, he had asked me to go to his doctor’s appointments with him. This honored me because he was a doctor. The doctor I took all my medical questions to. Whether they be about my...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2024 | Awareness
A Grueling Two-Week Adventure It’s a brilliant sunny morning, the horses are all where they belong and I’m on the couch this morning instead of my desk to write. My body aches. For the last two weeks, John and I have been waging war on the thistle at Serenity Ranch....
