Category: self-awareness

Where Beauty Meets Intention

A reflective blog exploring Vienna’s Secession movement as a lens for mindfulness, compassion, and resilience in modern business leadership.

Men’s Health Week 2025: Finding Steadiness Together in a Demanding World

This Men’s Health Week, elementas Coaching invites men to reconnect with inner steadiness, balance, and purpose through self-leadership and compassionate suppor

Cultivating Resilience: The Role of Kindness in Teams

Reconnecting Through Reflection: A Mindful Approach to Team Wellbeing In the pace of creative work and design planning, it is easy to get swept up in deadlines, feedback, and ever-evolving expectations. But sometimes, what a team needs most is a mindful pause.

Burnout to Balance: How Coaching helped a Creative Director Reclaim Calm, Clarity, and Confidence

Creative Director John Harris was doing it all — until the quiet weight of stress and self-judgment began affecting his clarity and confidence. Through Self-Leadership and Compassionate Coaching with elementas, he found a sustainable path to focus, calm, and renewed purpose and the work he loves. Discover how mindful leadership tools helped him shift from overwhelm to empowered clarity.

The role of values in happiness

In search of happiness and adventure to Bhutan and the Eastern Himalyan mountains

image: Ganche Valley, Bhutan @Lou Booth

In Search of Happiness

In search of happiness and adventure to Bhutan and the Eastern Himalyan mountains

image: Ganche Valley, Bhutan @Lou Booth

Back to Reality 

After a lovely experience many people say “now back to reality”. But let’s pause a moment. What is reality? And if the time away from routine wasn’t reality what was it… let’s explore this

Start Where You Are – Gratitude

Gratitude helps us approach life from a place of abundance and strength, rather than a place of lack. The word gratitude is derived from the Latin word gratia which means grace, graciousness, or gratefulness (depending on the context). Setting Meaningful Goals In coaching, the focus… Continue Reading “Start Where You Are – Gratitude”

Why Care about Kindness 

Kindness is a way we engage with the world and connect rather than withdraw. It has been associated with a positive mood, realistic optimism and success (Hanson 2023). But how can something as gentle and benevolent as kindness have so much impact on our… Continue Reading “Why Care about Kindness “