Kondwera
A BLOG ON JOYFULLY CELEBRATING ALL FACETS OF LIFE
Kondwera: Reviewing Melinda French Gate’s “The Next Day” on transitions and growth.
Kondwera: A good book, right for this moment. Melinda French Gates.
Kondwera: Rising after a layoff after almost a decade of service.
Kondwera: Rising after a layoff.
Kondwera: Delightfully Defiant
Kondwera: Encouraging others to be delightfully defiant and press on during layoffs. Ilana Golan’s workshop.
Kondwera: “High Functioning” and masking with overachieving. Thieves of joy.
Kondwera: Another great book for high achievers who have lost the joy in what they do.
Kondwera: Leadership lessons on conflict repair from parenting to the office
Kondwera: The path to conflict repair.
Kondwera: Uncertainty and its uncommon beauty, if you are willing to find it.
Kondwera: lessons from an almost Borg-like emu egg.
Kondwera: Celebrating women and amazing managers like my favorite boss, Cynthia.
International Women’s Day and celebrating Cynthia, the best manager, I have ever had. She was so amazing, I thanked her in my dissertation.
Kondwera: Mothers are legends and we’re raising the next wave. Oh, just you watch.
No one should ever count mothers out; we are legendary and raising the next wave. “Oh, just you watch!”
Kondwera: When the sunrise reminds us of new possibilities, and a song, that we’re Unbreakable.
The sunrise looked like the fire that Mickey Guyton sang about when she said, “… Sometimes we gotta burn to learn that there’s a fire in us all. It’s gonna hurt, but sometimes we gotta fall to find out we’re UNBREAKABLE.”
Kondwera: Deep Questions from Little Humans Who See Us.
“… Your job is to have fun, learn, and grow into a happy, healthy, whole grown-up. And my job is to help you and to listen.”
Kondwera: Grief is universal and we need to make space for it at work because it touches all of us.
Grief is universal. And no, one or two days of bereavement leave when someone loses a loved one is not enough. Some people may need more time, some may not feel the pain right away… Can’t we revisit that? Loss is the most consistent and inevitable human experience, yet we treat it as if it were nothing at all.
I’m left with the photo the sunrise on Mothers’ Day 2021 in Delaware where I wrote in the sand, “Hi Mum.”