Why do we struggle so much to compartmentalise our lives? Why do we try to cultivate an ‘at work persona’ which bears little , if any, resemblance to who we really are? Is it possible to bring the real me to work and still to ‘succeed’? And how has this been impacted by the experience of working...
Our recent City Women event, “Surviving and Thriving Through Anxiety”, was led by Wai-Ling Bickerton, a Birmingham-based NHS clinical psychologist who also works in independent practice. Wai-Ling has doctorates both in cognitive neuropsychology and clinical psychology, as well as wide-ranging...
Lighting Up Eternity – City Women and Van Gogh After a long haul through pandemic restrictions, our summer City Women meeting “with a difference” focused on Van Gogh’s art and spirituality for inspiration. “Lighting up Eternity in the Midst of Work and Life: A time of visual and verbal reflection...
Walking Well in 2021 With all that is changing around us at work – reshaped by the pandemic, Brexit and other factors – what adjustments do I need to make to keep patterns sustainable? Our most recent City Women session offered the opportunity to take stock, exploring a framework for intentional...
Our October combined City Women / City Men Zoom lunchtime event was led by Rev Dr Sharon Prentis, Intercultural Mission Enabler and Dean of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Affairs in the Diocese of Birmingham and Revd Calvert Prentis, Diocesan Director of Ordinands and Vocations Development in...
As you get into your stride for 2020, how broad and deep is your vision? What are the headlines, as you turn into the new year at work? How far are you simply ploughing on with the things which are demanded of you, driven by diary commitments and the action list? How far are you seeing the year...
How do we deal with conflict and challenge at work and beyond? In the week in September when the Brexit debate was acknowledged as “toxic” by the Speaker of the House of Commons, our combined City Women / City Men lunch engaged with the tough subject of conflict and challenge. Thank you to...
Our recent City Women lunch, generously hosted by Browne Jacobson, focused on speed. After her father’s death last year, Sarah recognised that she couldn’t live in “Fast Forward” – and asked herself the question of why we even collude in living in “Fast Forward”. We lead busy lives and...
“Living through Times of Uncertainty and Change” was Emily Jones’ topic for our January City Women lunch, kindly hosted by Anthony Collins Solicitors. Emily has worked at Gowling WLG for sixteen years, first in a legal team and now in IT – and alongside her fulltime role there, she’s just joined...
“Only Connect”, our recent Chaplaincy Plus lunchtime event, appropriately involved both City Women and City Men. Browne Jacobson generously hosted this event, which gathered together about 50 people from the ChaplaincyPlus network and beyond. Our speaker Sue Noyes is a chartered accountant by...
Our most recent City Women event has focused on “Work-life balance or imbalance?”. There’s been a lot of response to this event from the network, confirming that this is a live issue for many of us. Thanks to Patricia Wright and Amy Tabari from Gowling WLG for leading our discussion as well as...
Working in the Birmingham business community, ChaplaincyPlus affirms women in leadership. Our network is keen that the extremely disappointing “reasons” that a range of FTSE Chairs and CEOs have given for not appointing women to FTSE company boards, which have made the news headlines this week,...
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