In this episode, the second in our series about creating meaning in later life, you’ll hear two wise older women - Marion Ragaliauskas & Pam Winter - in conversation, as they explore the experience of women transitioning into later life. What’s similar for women in this phase of life compared to men? And crucially, what’s different for women?

As older women, both Marion and Pam are practicing and living their own inner work of aging, which brings into play areas as loss, review, evaluation and re-imagining: exploring the letting go of who we once were and learning how to embrace and experiment with who we are becoming, or could become.

A great reflection for anyone going through or approaching this stage of life, or if you want to understand more about it, or if you are helping others to go through it.

Additional resources

From Age-ing to Sage-ing A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Old by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald Miller

Hagitude by Sharon Blackie

The Inner Work of Age Shifting From Role to Soul by Connie Zwig

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis

In this episode, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Oasis Associates and coaches Jane Bytheway and Carole-Ann Jones as they discuss the benefits of taking a coaching approach at work.

In today's rapidly evolving and changing world of work, leaders cannot be expected to have all the answers. So there is a need to find a way of untapping the potential of others, embracing a shift in mindset towards taking a more developmental approach, so we can get the best from the people we work with, and in turn, deliver great results.

Together, Glyn, Jane and Carole-Ann explore the true benefits of work based coaching, address some challenges that can arise, and the factors that support this kind of approach in practice.

This episode will be great for you if you are wanting to create a coaching culture within your organization, or if you're a leader or manager who wants to learn this brilliant skillset.

Oasis Human Relations offers a two day programme for organisations wanting to create an empowering coaching culture, which you can find here: https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/programmes/leader-as-coach/

Additional resources

The Coaching Habit book by Michael Bungay Stanier book by Michael Bungay Stanier plus his Tedtalk ‘How to tame your advice monster’

Brilliant Coaching: How to be a brilliant coach in your workplace book by Julie Starr

Coaching for performance book by John Whitmore

The Oasis Seven Stage model pdf & audio book

Time to Think book by Nancy Kline

In this episode, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Oasis Associate, practitioner, coach, writer and activist Gill Coombs as they discuss Deep Ecology. What is Deep Ecology? Gill suggests that as we have evolved, our rational minds have taken over, with a tendency to dominate over the natural world causing an imbalance of power. Deep Ecology is a way of recognising the harm we have done to our relationship with other living beings and to begin the process of healing it.

We explore how the world of work has evolved and changed over time, along with Gill’s thoughts on essential, wise principles by which individuals and organisations can work towards creating and nurturing a healthy world in their own authentic way.

We also discuss how we can bring Deep Ecology into coaching. This could be as simple as bringing in external elements of nature to our coaching space, or going for a walk with someone outside rather than simply sitting facing. Both of these can add a vibrancy and healthy shift in the relationship between coach and coachee.

Additional resources

The book Gill highly recommends starting with is old(ish) but good: Spiritual Ecology, edited by Llewellyn Vaughn Lee.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is also excellent, and From What Is to What If, by Rob Hopkins, and The Nature of Business by Giles Hutchins. Also Manda Scott’s podcast Accidental Gods is superb.

And Gill’s own book Hearing our Calling.

Also Bill Plotkin’s Wild Mind, as some listeners may well be interested in eco psychology, the people practitioners’ facet of Deep Ecology.