What a feeling!

Despite thinking I was going to be awarded a doctorate in procrastination, seemingly mastering the art of doing anything but working. Plenty of time in the kitchen, Words with Friends mostly, a dash up to Woolies or a yoga class to sooth my busy mind - all playing their own important part in putting me off the scent of work. I had a very kindly suggestion that in fact I was not procrastinating but working by allowing the creativity and the thinking to have space to germinate. We are so used to being busy “doing”, that the art, and it is actually feels like an art, of allowing for space and time and quiet to let the work emerge that when we trust that process, it’s like a slow and fabulous reveal. So in actual fact, I did manage to read the transcripts of each amazingly talented and wonderful woman that participated in this project. I did manage to finish both first order and second order coding. I did manage to read many academic articles and subject-related books. I did manage to allow all of this to percolate so that the themes naturally and easily appeared from the data. And now there is this sweetest of moments as I realise that we have a launch in three cities in June, a website to cover the findings and our consulting offerings are shaping up for deployment soon. What started as a thought as I moved back to Sydney, has actually morphed into an amazing and meaningful project that has been empowering and energising in ways I could not have imagined. And gratitude for all of it and for the many and varied people who have given their time, their skill, their care - but more of that in another blog.