Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution

Q&A – Tending To Transformation

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:15:24 GMT

Q&A from the sessions Tending To Transformation – For Creative Leaders Who Stay With The Trouble with Pernilla Glaser (Author, Educator), Lydia Slaby (Community Leader and Author) and Holley M. Kholi-Murchison (Oratory Glory)

Holley M. Kholi-Murchison – Towards Satiety: Charting New Paths for the Work...

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:15:04 GMT

“Are you willing to dig deep and choose what your heart wants in the face of fear?”

How can we begin to view the work that we do as a journey towards self-actualisation? Holley began in their own journey of resignation from a toxic workplace, to found Oratory Glory, and has continued to work in spreading stories and helping people find meaning in their life and work. Many people find that they don’t fit into the boxes that those around them expect them to fit in, causing them to shrink themselves. Their ideas and their aspirations. Finding your own narrative can bring you back towards finding meaning in your life and in your work.

Holley delves into the importance of doing the work on yourself, in order to find self-actualisation in your other professional life. Reflecting on why work is important to you, what aspect of yourself you want to develop, and what your heart is yearning to do, will all move you towards a place of where we understand who we are. This leads us to becoming a better person in any place of work or interaction. Dare to be inconvenient, different, and work with things that make your heart sing.

Lydia Slaby – Soft Leadership Learned the Hard Way

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:14:42 GMT

“Take time to pay attention. Not everything can be solved in 15 minutes, let it take the time it takes”

“Stay in the hard and uncomfortable conversations”

Lydia Slaby learned the hard way that to live a life that is worthwhile, you need to find space for the heart and the brain. At the end of a long-list of achievements, and on a trajectory towards immense corporate success, Lydia suffered a cancer diagnosis that shifted her understanding of achievement. Moving from the corporate lawyer world, toward community based leadership, she found the beauty in letting a person be fully human, all the time.

You, or your colleagues, will go through things in your lives that forces you to change. Life is, and will be messy and humans are and will continue to be imperfect, and as leaders you need to let them be just that. You won’t always be able to receive total clarity from someone, because sometimes it just isn’t there. Instead of viewing people and workers as machines of productivity, listen, learn, and see the whole of them. This will take time, but in the end letting the emotional, intuitive instincts blend with the rational, and controlling, will create leadership that lets people be people.

Pernilla Glaser – Heart Matters

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:14:31 GMT

“We all start out as artists”, Pernilla Glaser explains. After all, most of us know how the snow eaten from a mitten tastes. We started out as open for experimentation, doing weird things, feeling and exploring the world and the relationships around us. Pernilla invites us to find ways back into this state, and to put more attention to our heart and not just our brain. The best way of hosting a playdate between the heart and brain is by actually inviting more play into our lives and reminding ourselves that we are always part of a web of relationships.

Play can help us imagine and actualise a different world, “a world you can imagine is reality halfway there.” Sure, our current society is not particularly great in supporting us in doing weird, playful and loving things but Pernilla explains that play can create reality. “Matters of the heart can take us to the heart of the matter”, meaning that if we can let our heart support and guide us through the challenges of the polycrisis we find ourselves in, we will be better equipped to manage the many webs of messy, difficult and complex relations we are intertwined with.