If the organisation is a body made up of real people, then where or who is its heart? What really is the work that needs to be done? How do we bring our whole selves to it? What is the leadership we need to address the challenges we face?
Kate and Mark went into this conversation with Farzana Khan from Healing Justice London thinking that we would be talking about the challenges of bringing your whole self to work as a leader.
What happened, though, was a really deep and expansive conversation about the real work that needs to be done – and how part of that work is being able to be fully yourself: to be “right sized” and fully human. Farzana shares how her work with Politicised Somatics informs her practice, and how Healing Justice London is a time-travelling organisation. She explains some of her practices, and together we ponder what it means to be able to thrive in the hardness of the work of systems change.
Resources:
Read the article accompanying the episode here.
Articles, organisations and resources referenced during this episode:
Staci K Haines and Generative Somatics
Panthea Lee’s writing on the impacts of incorporation
Life Affirming Organisational Practice event
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Presenters:
Kate Swade (she/her), independent organisational development and governance consultant
Mark Walton (he/him), Founder and Director, Shared Assets
Interviewee:
Farzana Khan (she/her), Executive Co-Director, Healing Justice Ldn
Editor: Katie Revell (she/her)
Artwork: Hanna Norberg-Williams (they/them)
Supporters:
The series is supported by the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), which is a cutting edge research organisation based at the University of Surrey. CUSP explores the question: What does prosperity mean in a world of environmental, social, and economic limits? For more details, visit cusp.ac.uk.
