The Loss One

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Episode Links:

The Power of Unlearning: How to Let Go of Beliefs to Embrace Success | By Gustavo Razzetti

Grief Theory 101: The Dual Process Model of Grief

Why Men and Women Have Different Ways of Grieving – Intuitive and Instrumental Grieving – Nathalie Himmelrich

Personality, Gender, and Crying

Do Men Really Cry Less Than Women? – Open to Hope

Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk – Dawson – 2023 – British Journal of Psychology – Wiley Online Library

Ever ‘delayed’ getting sick? This is why we get ill when we relax

What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger Meaning & Origin | Slang by Dictionary.com

Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic – Wikipedia

Under pressure: four ways to cope when things go wrong at work | Guardian Careers

10 Things To Remember When Everything Seems To Be Going Wrong At Work

The Healing Power of Hugs: a deep dive into the surprising benefits – BCOP Birmingham

Why You Should Get (and Give) More Hugs

What are the benefits of hugging?

I lost everything I own to fire 6 years ago

I lost everything I owned in a fire. This is how it reframed my thinking about owning material things.

Losing my possessions in fire taught me I didn’t actually need them all

How To Support Someone Through Grief – Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute

Supporting other people – Cruse Bereavement Support

How do you tell someone about a death? No words can soften the blow | Family | The Guardian

Most of us are so scared of death we daren’t even speak its name | Independent Age

How We Talk About Grief: The Role of Language in Coping with Loss | by Antoine Decressac (#LinguisticallyYours) | Medium

What does grief feel like?

How Grief Changes Us: Forever & for Now

Grief is horrible – but it’s supposed to be. We have to feel a loss before we can grow through it | Bereavement | The Guardian

Loss: The Weight We All Must Endure.


This week’s guests are Kirsty Lewis, the founder of School of Facilitation. She is known for her passion for designing and delivering brilliant workshops that create purpose, ownership, safety and engagement, she is a convener of freelance facilitators and trainers through the SOF collective whilst supporting corporate clients to evolve their learning game.

www.schooloffacilitation.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-schooloffacilitation

Edeje (Ei-dei-jei) Onwude is a Nigerian-born, UK-based communications leader whose career spans brand, culture, and organisational change. For 10+ years, she built and led brand work for global organisations including Coca-Cola and Reckitt. More recently, her focus has shifted to the broader human side of communications: ensuring what organisations say aligns with the experience of their employees, partners and stakeholders. Edeje brings a candid perspective on career identity, letting go, and what it means to evolve when the work that once defined you no longer fits.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/edejeonwude

Stella Collins is an internationally acclaimed learning strategist dedicated to transforming performance and productivity in the workplace. She has spent 30 years working at the intersection of people, neuroscience, AI, data and technology to deliver actionable results. She is valued for her strategic advice and unique ability to make complex ideas accessible and relevant.

She’s the author of Neuroscience for Learning and Development and is an award winning speaker. Her Linkedin Learning programme has over 56,000 learners and she’s the expert author for Digital Learning Institutes Neuroscience microcredential.  Stella is an entrepreneur who has founded 3 businesses, lived in 4 countries and her clients range from global corporations to technology startups.  She advocates for a world where every minute spent learning is worth it – “In a world of constant change we have to move from knowing to doing.”

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stellacollinslearningrevolution

www.stellacollins.com