The Workplace Healer

Vince Tuckwood is a coach and consultant fascinated by two simple questions: 1) Why do people do what they do?; and 2) How do we help them do more of what we need them to do? Driven by these questions, he has experienced a two-decade trans-Atlantic career in Talent & Organization Development with Pfizer Inc and, since 2010, a life of independent coaching and consulting. In spirit and action, Vince is always a force for beneficial change and loves nothing more than the thrill of connecting the dots to identify what’s holding a person, team or organization back.

In this episode Vince walks us methodically through his assessment of what we call a "toxic workplace." He holds up for us an awareness of history, of our tendency to seek an easy answer through blame, how we may contribute to the conditions we wish to change, and staying centered despite toxicity.

The Workplace Healer podcast is a compliment to Healeology (www.healeology.com) a workplace well-being business partner offering memberships to teams and individuals looking to develop well-being skills of modern meditation, a compassionate workstyle, and rituals of belonging.

Achebe Powell is an anti-racist, equity and inclusion organizational consultant. She has been a human rights and LGBTQ+ activist for over four decades. As a Black lesbian-feminist Achebe is noted as one of the vanguard activists of the 1970’s and 80’s who consistently shone light on the linkages between the Black Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Liberation Movement and the LGBTQ+ Liberation Movement.

In this episode, Achebe speaks with me about how the work we are doing through this podcast and through Healeology is part of a bigger movement. Achebe speaks about her work anti-racist with organizations, forgiveness, and the birth of a new workplace paradigm -- a more compassionate, soulful, healing work culture.

The Workplace Healer podcast is a compliment to Healeology (www.healeology.com) a workplace well-being business partner offering memberships to teams and individuals looking to develop well-being skills of modern meditation, a compassionate workstyle, and rituals of belonging.

This is my personal experience on identifying as a non-binary person. I offer it here motivated by the hope to help nudge our collective understanding just a little bit further. Each story is different, and each story counts.

You will note I don't even mention my pronouns except in passing: I am not my pronouns. Pronouns are a grammatical tool of convenience. I am not necessarily concerned about being convenient for anyone. My particular story is one of understanding my non-binary identity late in life. It is a story of ageism. It is a story of white male power. It is a story of spiritual discovery. I don't actually ask that you understand me. Only that you dignify me.

The Workplace Healer podcast is a compliment to Healeology (www.healeology.com) a workplace well-being business partner offering memberships to teams and individuals looking to develop well-being skills of modern meditation, a compassionate workstyle, and rituals of belonging.

When we prepare to confront the stresses and harms in worklife that require healing, we first seek to understand. And so we gather data. We analyze. We try to diagnose the root cause of the symptoms. This is all reasonable. Yet while analysis of data helps us determine the steps we may need in order to heal, before we act we need to move on and then listen to our wisdom.

What is wisdom and how do we access wisdom? In this episode we remind ourselves to draw upon both data and wisdom, and take a meditative pause to listen actively to our inner knowing.

The Workplace Healer podcast is a compliment to Healeology (www.healeology.com) a workplace well-being business partner offering memberships to teams and individuals looking to develop well-being skills of modern meditation, a compassionate workstyle, and rituals of belonging.

Harm comes to people during their worklife in many different forms. At a time when we are fundamentally redefining the terms of work, we need to include a fresh approach to "duty of care." Beyond occupational safety, anti-harrassment, and other traditionally understood responsibilities, our times call for humanistic obligations as well.

In this episode we re-evaluate the definition of "duty of care" using surprising findings in chapter 7 of the 2021 UN Happiness Report, "Work and Well-being."

Find the UN report chapter here.

The Workplace Healer podcast is a compliment to Healeology (www.healeology.com) a workplace well-being business partner offering memberships to teams and individuals looking to develop well-being skills of modern meditation, a compassionate workstyle, and rituals of belonging.

How can we know if our difficult boss is just beyond the ability to change? What is our responsibility? Join me for a reflection and guided meditation.

Welcome to Season 5 of the Workplace Healer podcast! This season we will engage in conversation and critiques on programs and practices in the workplace wellness and well-being space. How are they different? What works? How can we enhance these practices?

In this introduction to season 5, we'll briefly review the themes of the first four season, reflect on the meaning that phrase: "trust in thriving," and look at one specific example of how we need to lay a solid foundation for wellness and well-being. There are no shortcuts.

The Workplace Healer podcast is a compliment to Healeology (www.healeology.com) a workplace well-being business partner offering memberships to teams and individuals looking to develop skills of modern meditation, a compassionate workstyle, and rituals of belonging.

This final episode of season 4, More Than Mindful, is dedicated to my long-distance teacher (and companion in being a bit different) Kriket, the creator of Shaman's Way podcast. In February of 2020, I had the great pleasure of being joined by Kriket for episode #50 of this podcast, entitled "Medicine Wheel with Kriket." I find it fitting that I recorded this final season episode on the day of a New Moon, and that it is imbued with Kriket's memory and, perhaps, her Presence.

"Essential Connection" is the third and final practice of the LightHeart Cycle, a systematic approach to self-care and self-empowerment using guided meditation and visualization. I like to describe Essential Connection as the ultimate destination of the LightHeart Cycle, but it is at the same time the foundation. I invite you to consider your relatedness to everyone and everything around you. You may think of this relatedness to the whole world, or your community, or your workplace. Consider the comfort to be found in that idea of being part of something more than just yourself. I then invite you to create for yourself habits -- dare I say "rituals" -- of reminding yourself of that relatedness, that connectedness, that essential connection. Just imagine how that sense of a larger whole can transform how you go about your everyday tasks and duties!

The LightHeart Cycle is one of the primary components of workplace well-being practices now being introduced through Healeology. A workplace well-being partner, Healeology offers audio and video content in pursuit of its mission to embed healing as a strategy of team success for 21st century workplaces.

Here we share a guided meditation enabling ourself to connect more meaningfully with the essence of Empathy. Empathy is an innate capability unique to us humans, and can be a tool for productivity as we navigate our professional relationships. Some may challenge us, asking whether we can take this sensitivity too far. Isn't it more practical, they ask, to just carry on and get things done? Maybe the answer is somewhere in between. We're not about wallowing in others' feelings, but we are about understanding, openness and mutual support. So let's journey together to the heart of Empathy.

NEWS:

BraveShift is re-branding to Healeology. Launching officially in June 2021, Healeology is a workplace wellness business partner with a mission to embed healing as a strategy of team success. Healeology will focus primarily on weekly guided meditation practices and related content. Keep an eye out at www.healeology.com for updates!

As we turn to the third principle - Imagination - and the third practice - Essential Connection - of the LIGHTHEART CYCLE, let's first recognize the hard truth. People face serious challenges in both their personal and working life. Here we don't naively assume we shall will adversity and suffering away. It is important even as we apply these practices to recognize this, but also not to surrender over our sense of possibility and Hope. A deeper, harder truth to accept than the differences that divide us is the common humanity that binds us. Let's pause to reflect on that we we proceed.

This podcast is offered by your workplace well-being partner HEALEOLOGY. Learn more about the practical strategies of modern meditation, a compassionate work-style, and rituals of belonging at Healeology.