“How do we restore our natural balance?
On this week’s #earthconversepodcast, Roy White talks about the curve of his relationship with nature - in his life as a Londoner, global executive with Sony Europe, family man, Going The Distance founder at Impact International and now as a sport psychology student. (54 mins)
He talks about the importance of being natural, and offers:
Memories of roaming, noticing and learning outdoors growing up. “How rain brings you to life”
The tough part of your career and juggling family ..”looking back I wish I had spent more time in nature”.
Looking after his own well-being, and introducing the Energy Project to Sony Europe in his capacity as HR Director. Helping people to connect to what was important to them. “Is the life I am living worth it?”
“Getting back to basics”. “How do we get back to natural equilibrium? “One thing that will improve your life – get a decent night’s sleep”.
“I think it would help us to be a little bit more relaxed and a little bit more ease with our lives if we accepted nature and the natural order of things …which is easy for me to say in this time in my life”.
“Being careful of having a privileged view of something”.
“The more equal we are as a society then I think we can help more people have lives that are more in tune with what they would want to do from a purpose point of view”.
Being aware of our natural reactions flows, tendencies including our need to be active.
Talking about being vulnerable, reflecting, making talking about feelings normal, identity and belonging, and engaging in dialogue as natural
EPISODE EXTRAS:
Sources that may be of interest:
Tony Schwartz https://theenergyproject.com/team/tony-schwartz/
Nanett Mutrie, https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Social+Wellbeing+MOOC+WK2+-+Walking+for+Wellbeing/1_53qgtkx0/53975401
Going The Distance programme at Impact International https://www.impactinternational.com/case-studies/going-distance
Roy often writes..check out his musings on https://www.impactinternational.com/blog. Follow him on Twitter @roy_white9
Here is one of our joint articles: https://www.impactinternational.com/blog/2018/06/leadership-development-walk-park
See this episode in video at the Earth Converse YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/fIne8ptbX54
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