Writing on coaching,
process work, and the work itself
Fifteen years as a journalist meant I never stopped writing about what I find genuinely interesting — that habit didn't go away when I retrained as a coach. Below are my articles on process-oriented coaching, the process work approach, burnout, and other things worth reading if you lead or work inside mission-driven teams — plus my own prompts for working with AI through a coaching and process-oriented lens.
The load that was never theirs: why mission-driven teams lose their best people
Burnout in this sector gets read as a personal failing. It's usually a structural one — and it's costing you the people your mission depends on.
Process-oriented coaching: how it works
Why a coach gives no advice, what the brain does differently when they don't — and how the approach works with what hasn't yet found words.
The edge: what burnout is, and why rest doesn't repair it
Exhaustion is usually treated as an empty tank. Looked at as a process, it turns out to be something else — a conflict held in place by a belief.
Nowhere to go: what the sector offers people who are burning out
Burnout in charity, nonprofit and independent media work has been measured carefully for years. The support built on top of it is thin.