Hi, I'm Aurélie, a professional coach and facilitator, specialized in innovation in healthcare and sustainability.I enable team and organization leaders in healthcare to increase the speed between an ideas discovery and significant investments. I bring creativity and disciplined methods with contagious energy and a smile as well as a team and system coaching approach.I have a No BlaBla, No Bullshit, and no Blingbling values.I am an entrepreneur & Mum of 3 boys aware that I only have one life, so I want to make the most of it!
Hello Reader ! This is an invitation to lower the temperature and bring more presence and slowdown. I will share with you my tips:
Before we begin, how can I assist you?
Get comfortable for your 5 minutes of sparks to hack. ✨ Spark ✏ Speed is the problem, not slowness As a society, we reward speed, and generative AI is amplifying this trend, as well as its negative implications. I've met many people who have been working with generative AI for the past two years, building and utilizing agents and assistants daily. The common thread is exhaustion and brain fatigue. "Doing nothing often leads to the very best something." — Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne) We need to rethink slowness and recognize that taking time is essential. ✏ Performance vs PresenceI still remember vividly reading this quote when the kids were still very young ( 1,7, and 9): "Don't give your business your best and your family your rest". Similarly, based on our performance, we can develop presence skills and challenge our hierarchy of presence & slowness versus performance. Let's see how. ✨ Hack ✏ Slowness definitionSlowness isn’t laziness, it’s deliberate presence. It’s cooling the inner rush to align with what matters. ✏ The 5 Senses ResetYesterday, I had dinner with a friend who reminded me I shared these tips years ago. A technique I call “The 5 Senses Reset.” As you do your laundry, cleaning, cooking, art and craft with your kids, running, gardening... instead of having a podcast or videos, you focus on your senses:
The body will do what the mind can’t: anchor you to now. I often use it in workshops as an energizer, sending my team outside with a list of "Things they need to collect or see". This brings fun, collaboration, and a sense of presence for the rest of the afternoon. This is my easy adaptation from the"5 Senses Grounding Technique" (sometimes called the 5-4-3-2-1 technique), a simple and powerful mindfulness and anxiety-regulation tool. The classic version involves noticing:
✏ Don’t consume your holiday—build it It's not having a cake ready for dinner, it's making the cake with someone. I came across this concept: Tutto Blu invites you to build your raft and set sail together for a gentle drift along the shores of a lake.
So the question is, what can you contribute to building during your vacation? And for your team, you can also design a "building" session during an off-site. My go-to tools are Legos or wooden sticks to build collaboration and presence. ✏ Let nature flirt with your attention Sometimes, I go for a walk and find myself stopping. A snail on a stone. An eagle is circling above while I run. I don’t force meaning, but I ask: What is this inviting me into? Arnold Mindell calls this a quantum flirt: a way to read what’s showing up for you, without logic, but with openness. “If you pay attention, the universe will give you clues.” Next time you pause, notice what catches your eye. What could be the invitation? This is a game I play daily. This might sound "weird", I thought that a few years ago when I learned this tip as part of my Systemic Coaching Certification - ORSC. Now, I would never stop this practice. Lately, I have been drawn to seeing many snails - I guess I'm being invited to slow down 😅. Vacations are coming soon. That's it for today. See you in two weeks. Keep the spark alive, and be intentional :) What's up with me? For two of the top five pharma companies, I led a training session on assertiveness in Lausanne and a commercial oncology strategy workshop in Paris, allowing me to enjoy many friends' dinners (and Aperol Spritz 😉). Reader, hit reply to let me know if you liked this edition or if you tried these tips. I respond to every person who writes to me! |
Hi, I'm Aurélie, a professional coach and facilitator, specialized in innovation in healthcare and sustainability.I enable team and organization leaders in healthcare to increase the speed between an ideas discovery and significant investments. I bring creativity and disciplined methods with contagious energy and a smile as well as a team and system coaching approach.I have a No BlaBla, No Bullshit, and no Blingbling values.I am an entrepreneur & Mum of 3 boys aware that I only have one life, so I want to make the most of it!