Leadership and media practice for people shaping how the world is understood.
Scott Umstattd for Unsplash. Entrepreneurship can make you doubt yourself, especially when you are working on complex topics or have to relate to the global pluricrisis. I realized this again after returning from my latest ten-day meditation retreat. The silence reminded me of why I started Inclusive Journalism in the first place. Inclusive Journalism exists … Continue reading What a silent retreat taught me about leadership in journalism
Sunrise in the meditation retreat The day my seventh silent meditation retreat ended was the day the US and Israel attacked Iran. After nine days without my phone, it felt strange to scroll through the news again. Not only because my mind had just spent more than 100 hours in silence and meditation, but also … Continue reading How does a meditation practice relate to struggles for justice?
(Media) Leadership is increasingly framed as an inner project, for good reasons. I’m an example of someone who became a better manager after studying coaching and going through a thorough two-year program that laid bare my own vulnerabilities and triggers. As a good leader, you are expected to be self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and regulated, meaning … Continue reading When self-improvement makes leaders more judgmental
Photo by Ray Harrington on Unsplash ChatGPT creating overwhelm We are living in a moment where tools designed to help us think are increasingly shaping how we cope with overload. Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerates the loss of our scarcest natural resource: water, as Forbes published in 2024. The AI boom has caused the same CO₂ … Continue reading Staying sane in an age of permanent overload
Where is home? Is it a physical place, a state of mind, or something harder to define? And in a world dominated by screens, algorithms, and curated identities, do we even know what it means to belong anymore? Or does the digital world give us a new community to belong to? These were the intertwined … Continue reading Where do we belong in a digital and disconnected world?Notes from the listening circle for media professionals.
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash. “Come as you are” was the invitation for the listening circle for journalists, content creators, and media professionals feeling the ground shift beneath their feet. Amid all the chaos, uncertainty, and relentless change swirling through the journalism industry right now, Mili Semlani and I want to offer something simple: … Continue reading Space to Breathe: Notes from a Listening Circle for Media Professionals
Photo Unsplash If a journalist or newsroom manager shares about her or his trauma experience, there is a chance people will say, maybe this person just doesn’t belong in the industry. Confession: I sometimes cringe when I read social media posts of colleagues opening up about their trauma in detail. I know it says more … Continue reading How do we overcome the stigma of trauma and well-being among journalists?
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