Desiree Paulsen Facilitation

  I find that when people are heard properly half the work is done and then helping them find their wisdom and own response flows easily (Desiree Paulsen, 2023) During March to August 2023, the bulk of my work has been about helping teams to reconnect with each other and have honest conversations. The purpose of the gatherings may be different but underneath it all is about rebuilding relationships and reconnecting teams to each other, their organisational purpose and their work. Transitioning teams from online to in person engagement is another big area of work as many teams are once more coming together in person. Being together in person helps teams to be more human together, hear each other better as full embodied beings, find consensus much easier and work at more depth relationally. These sessions are practical sessions to build team skills and build capacity to have honest conversations, work more authentically together and communicate more constructively. Finding ...

 The last three years have been enormously challenging and at the same time filled with so many enlightening experiences and lessons. I learnt how to fully transition my work to online spaces. I learnt how to be brave and work during the dark days of the pandemic even when I was tired, demotivated and fearful. I learnt to find the blessing in illness when I was hospitalised with Covid Pneumonia in 2021 during one of my busiest work years when I was probably overworking myself and needed a rest. I learnt to self heal and revitalise myself to begin to work again post the illness but finding new ways to be with myself and be with the work.  All of this would not have been possible if I were not surrounded with the love of family, friends and colleagues - my phone became my lifeline once I was better enough to be able to communicate once more. Colleagues  stepped in to do some of my work when I couldn't. Medical staff, fellow patients, family and friends did so much for me an...