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Mindfulness in
a Digital World
Ana Karakusevic in a reflective mood, shares her musings on life, development, communities and digital media.

the power of visioning (and looking back)

On this day, exactly a year ago, at an amazingly inspirational transpersonal coach training workshop run by Sir John Whitmore, I visioned my life a year on.  I had a very clear image in my mind – which emerged somewhat messier, due to my lack of drawing skills – of a huge heart, with wings [...]

becoming yourself

One of the things I often help coaching clients with is – becoming more of who they are.  In Gestalt psychology, this is called the Paradox of Change: true change is only possible when you become who you truly are.  It’s a paradox because we spend so much of our lives – often starting in [...]

the fear of being found out

As an executive coach, one of the most common fears I hear in my clients – especially senior managers – is the fear of being found out.  The underlying dread that – no matter how successful in the external world, and by the standards of that world – one day someone will come, tap us on the [...]

silence in the digital world

Out of the many good things about digital communication and social networks – such as giving voice to the dispossed (if they are at least possessed of access to a network) – it strikes me that one thing is still missing: the power of silence.  Silence not as emptiness, or the absence of thought/action/voice, but [...]

bearing witness

One of the greatest joys of coaching for me is the opportunity to bear witness to another person’s ‘a-ha!’ moment, the privilege of witnessing the birth of a new insight, way of being and looking at the world.  And all it takes on the part of the coach is the ability to sit still, patient [...]

the power of Kit-kat

A few weeks ago, I was waiting in the reception of a large consultancy, together with a few other people…  We were sharing our space in that typical big-city way, where the done thing is to avoid eye contact, and stare pointedly at a newspaper or one of the free magazines on offer, while waiting for [...]

Life on shuffle

… or the importance of being pleasantly surprised! Since Apple introduced the ingenious Shuffle button, enabling mp3 players to mix up tracks from your downloaded choice of music, rather than following an obvious pattern such as listening to the whole album, or many songs by the same artist, or the same genre, my experience of listening [...]

Choice in the time of plenty…

It struck me recently, while debating a personal choice I’m facing, how much our choice-related mechanisms are stuck in the era of dearth: dearth of options, dearth of resources, dearth of opportunities…  And while I acknowledge that dearth is still a daily condition for many in this world, many others still have long moved away [...]

Nancy Kline and the art of listening

I’ve just returned from a coaching workshop given by Nancy Kline, who is one of my coaching heroes, particularly influential for her Time to Think approach.  What Nancy writes about – and, based on tonight’s experience – also exemplifies, is a full coaching presence in the service of the client: not so much clever questions, or [...]

Time: man-made and natural

I’ve just returned from a run on Hampstead Heath (for those that do not know – a beautiful wooded area in London) and was delighted by the changing colours of leaves – both still clinging (only just!) to branches and falling, carpet-like, under my feet.  And I started thinking about the (man-introduced) clock change yesterday, [...]
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Ana is an MSc-trained learning consultant, specialising in change, communication and leadership consultancy, but her main passion lies in one-to-one and team coaching.  With a strong grounding in psychology, cognitive science and philosophy, Ana brings a range of analytical and creative approaches, combining rational and emotional, Buddhist mindfulness and Western systems thinking, creativity and accountability, individual focus and community orientation.

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As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as  being able to remake ourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi