Kindness is the theme for this year’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek (Mental Health Awareness Week 2020) in the UK, running 18-24 May 2020 – and it’s one of three scheduled moments this year for us to pause and reflect on how we’re showing up for ourselves and others with kindness. Random Acts of Kindness Day fell on 17 February 2020, and World Kindness Day is Friday 13 November 2020.

This article will explore what is kindness and why it matters, as well as offering a series of questions to ask yourself, to reflect on the way kindness as a strength is currently expressing itself in your life…

It’s incredibly easy when things are busy or hectic, to rush into a 1:1 meeting and want to maintain momentum (or pick up the pace) and keep things moving.

To focus on the doing and charge on with the agenda or action items.

But, what does the other person need from you today?

Thanks to our expert panel for helping to articulate why we are collectively so tired right now. After awareness, comes options and then action.

It’s time to see what steps we can take to feel better…

In the past few weeks, Zoom has become a verb. Work meetings, job interviews, yoga classes, pub quizzes, family dinners, first dates. You name, we’re zooming it.

Not to mention Email. HouseParty. Teams. Slack. Whatsapp. Instagram Direct. A firehose of cross-channel communication, despite the fact we may be feeling more disconnected than ever before from other.

In a work world that’s endlessly updating and with very little separating us physically from where we work and sleep/play/eat/exercise etc, the boundaries that may have been there before are also blurring. While we may have initially been excited about the thought of a couple of hours reclaimed without our commute, the reality is it’s near impossible to locate that time in the everyday.

We feel more exhausted than ever. Why?

In part one of a two part series, I spoke to a range of workplace and wellbeing experts to find out what is it about our current screen-heavy, always-on WFH (working from home) situation is so draining…

I’ve been inspired to share the five most common mistakes we make when it comes to goal-setting for ourselves and our teams, starting with the tendency to set and forget…

Amidst the current upheaval and uncertainty, there is something warmly reassuring about the consistency of the world continuing to turn. Now more than ever, we may find ourselves craving a sense of familiarity, while other aspects of our lives feel completely foreign.

I spoke to seasonal experts Gem Morson, Lucy Hill and Craig Hoareau about what characteristics of Spring we can tap into right now and how we can harness this energy to help us to check-in on our momentum so far in the year, declutter our to-do lists and inboxes and set a realistic pace for new growth…

Perhaps this week marks the first time you’re working from home – maybe before these unprecedented times your employer didn’t support WFH and it’s taken a governmental directive to get here or the thought of working remotely doesn’t appeal to you and you’re not here by choice.

Ever curious about how other millennials get the best from themselves, I reached out to my network of people who’ve been working from home for a number of years and asked them how they make the most of it.

I love the variety of responses from everyone and a key takeaway here is the permission to be playful with your new circumstances – there’s no one right answer to what is going to work best for you on any given day, so make a note of the strategies that inspire you and be kind to yourself on the days when it doesn’t flow. We’re all doing the best we can.