News and Views from Motion Learning
Learning from Work Truths: Off the Record - Reflections on Episode 1
Burnout rarely announces itself with a crash. It creeps in as a slow disappearing of self—until one day you realize you’ve been operating on empty, disconnected from your body, values, and voice.
Rachel Morris and Catherine Lightfoot discussed this and other insights in this conversation about Burnout in episode 1 of Work Truths: Off the Record
Gaining Control in the Face of Overwhelm
If you’ve ever felt drowned by the demands of work and life, you know you’re not alone.
At CityLit’s Mental Wealth Festival, Rachel Morris and Helen Brooks explored practical ways to regain control, transform overwhelm into action, and build true resilience—tools everyone can use to thrive in our high-pressure world.
And…. Pause…
We've learnt so much over the last 20 years of work, from each other and our team, from our clients and from our coachees.
But if we had to pick just one thing, the single most important lesson we've learnt, is that the single most impactful thing you can do today, and everyday, to help cope with daily life, is to consciously pause more.
Paternity Coaching Still in its Infancy
Our recent research on paternity coaching shows that it’s rarely an option, is little understood but could be welcomed by working fathers
To understand more about the paternal view of coaching we conducted some research with almost 50 fathers contributing their thoughts and feelings.
The Importance of Resilience
Demonstrating resilience, overcoming barriers and hurdles, and bouncing back are more and more frequent topics of conversation in our work with clients.
We’ve spent a lot of time over the last couple of years talking to our clients and our network about resilience and it's not hard to understand why. A recent study on reactions to the current global economic crisis highlighted the range of reactions and depth of emotions that are stirred up by the uncertainty we all currently face.

