Healthy Rhythms Podcast
We are living in challenging and uncertain times where leaders need support and encouragement to help them learn to navigate a chaotic world.
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Between Land and Sea: The Sacred Rhythms of Lindisfarne (opens the original)
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Between Land and Sea: The Sacred Rhythms of Lindisfarne What can a tidal island and a group of ancient Celtic monks teach us about leading through uncertainty today? In this episode, based on Chapter Seven of The Imaginal Coach, I travel to Lindisfarne, a place shaped by the daily rhythm of land and sea, retreat and return, stillness and movement. I explore how Celtic Christian communities responded when their world seemed to have lost its instructions. Rather than waiting for certainty to retur
Soul Work: The Hidden Engine of Coaching and Leadership (opens the original)
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What if the most important work you do for your leadership is not another strategy, meeting or task, but the work of tending your own soul? In this episode, based on Chapter Six of The Imaginal Coach, I explore why formation must come before mission. When leaders neglect their inner lives, busyness can replace purpose, exhaustion can dull creativity, and people can remain in their roles while quietly checking out. I share how creating three hours of intentional space each day during the 2020 loc
The Three Disciplines of Healthy Rhythms Coaching (opens the original)
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What helps a coaching conversation remain spiritually attentive, thoughtfully grounded and genuinely relevant to the person in front of us? In this episode, based on Chapter Five of The Imaginal Coach , I explore the three disciplines at the heart of Healthy Rhythms Coaching: Spiritual direction: presence that discerns Practical theology: meaning that guides action Contextualization: wisdom in place These are not three techniques to work through in sequence. They are three ways of paying attenti
Leaders on Empty: When the Inner Life Begins to Fray (opens the original)
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What happens when I have nothing left to give? In this fourth episode exploring The Imaginal Coach , I speak honestly about the hidden exhaustion carried by many capable and committed leaders. Burnout does not always arrive as a dramatic collapse. Sometimes it is a slow leak of energy, curiosity and hope. I can continue performing, producing and caring for others while quietly running on empty. Drawing upon the image of the cocoon, I explore how seasons of exhaustion can feel like dissolution. Y
The Art of Imaginal Coaching: Presence, Silence and Story (opens the original)
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What creates the conditions for genuine transformation? In this third episode exploring The Imaginal Coach , Mark briefly revisits the first two chapters before turning to the art of imaginal coaching. Chapter One introduced the threshold of change: the moment when the familiar no longer fits, but the future is not yet clear. Chapter Two explored coaching as a posture of presence, patience and belief, offering people a mirror rather than handing them a map. Chapter Three asks what a coach actual
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