Take people away from the usual pace and noise for a few days, and something happens that is hard to describe but easy to see. Shoulders drop. Conversations lengthen. By the second day people are sayi...
What makes a team work well together isn’t always found in the meeting room. New research into workplace wellbeing is putting greater emphasis on something less tangible: trust, belonging and strong r...
Walking is often treated as exercise. But perhaps we’re overlooking another reason to walk. Recent research continues to explore the relationship between walking and creative thinking, with stud...
We often think about wellness as something we do to ourselves. Yoga. Meditation. Cold water. Sleep. But research continues to point towards something much simpler: our relationships matter to our well...
A wedding can pass surprisingly quickly. Months of planning, over in a matter of hours. But what if you gave yourself more time? A Friday arrival. Dinner together. A walk through the grounds. The cere...
Who do you really want there? Perhaps that’s a better question than how many people you can fit into a wedding. There is something different about celebrating with the people who have shaped you...
Each issue, Brinkburn Co-Founder Mark Fenwick introduces one walk across the 52-acre Brinkburn Estate in Northumberland and one thought shaped by it. This month’s reflection, recently published in Nor...
It is a striking thing to notice. People who lead hundreds of others, who make consequential decisions every day, who others turn to for steadiness, and who, when the room goes quiet and the question ...
The decision to change almost never arrives as a grand resolution. More often it starts as something small and slightly uncomfortable, a reaction replayed on the drive home, a pattern noticed once too...
Ask people who shaped them, and the answer is almost never the famous mentor or the leadership programme. It is a particular teacher. A first boss. A grandparent. Someone who, often without any grand ...