Happiness and Work – Swings and Roundabouts
My grandchild loves things that create movement, whether it’s swings, slides, scooters, or being thrown up in the air (and caught), it doesn’t matter.
Blog and News
Latest news, blog posts and articles written by Oasis co-directors and associates. Topics include peer working, collaboration, leadership, organisational development, resilience and wellbeing.
Resilience: Challenges and Pitfalls
When we think about what affects our resilience there are a host of challenges that come to mind.
Resilience: Learning from Experience
How do we recognise when we have been resilient and how can this help? Learning from your past experiences is always important. I really appreciate this now much more than I did when I was younger.
Developing resilience: how can we develop resilience?
As part of our ongoing series on wellbeing and resilience we are revisiting some of our previously published blogs that you may have missed. This post was written by Lise this time last year.
Three Ways to Boost Wellbeing at Work
As part of our series of blogs on wellbeing and resilience this autumn we’re looking back at some of the research on wellbeing.
What is wellbeing?
What is wellbeing? And how do we increase our wellbeing at work?
Embracing the Cracks in Reality
What do you do when the cracks start to appear in your concept of reality? When you think you know how the world works, what reality is and then you stop for a while, stop rushing from place to place, stop continually doing stuff and find there is more to it than you thought.
Common Good, Common Ground
The theme of this year's gathering of the partners of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative is 'Common Good, Common Ground'.
Achieving the seemingly impossible
To conclude our recent five-day programme in the Republic of Georgia we did an exercise where a group sits down without using chairs. You may have been part of this yourself. Forming a tight circle, each person sits on the knees of the person behind. Through collective effort, the seemingly impossible is achieved. It’s a lot of fun – often causing surprise and hilarity in equal measures.
What’s my relationship to change?
Whilst it is true that change is a constant, how often do we give attention to what capacity we have available, or our ability or capability to deal with the consequences of change? What's our relationship to change? What levels of skill might be required for us to navigate the consequences of meeting the demands of that change?