Interplay Mentoring

I’ve been lucky enough to work with Daniel and Trudi at Educated by Nature for nearly 4 years!!! They are brilliant at creating beautiful spaces and opportunities for children (and adults) to grow and connect, with themselves and nature!

This was a great conversation we had about ‘celebrating the friction not just the fire’.

I watched it again today and it spoke to my heart as a really tired and frustrated mum! I took a deep breath, re-postured myself and kept on going!

Hope you’re all travelling well!!

ExN Campfire Conversations Ep # 28 - Celebrate the Friction In this episode of Campfire Conversations – entitled ‘Celebrating the Friction’ Daniel Burton (Co-founder of Educated by Nature) and Nadia Robinson (Nature P...

I speak a lot about how grateful I am for my community. My life has held a few challenges over the last couple of years and I wouldn’t have been able to keep going without my tribe.

Now for something random, fractions!!

When you have a fraction, you have a numerator (top number) and a denominator (bottom number). The top number is how many parts of the whole are represented, the bottom number represents the total number of parts created from the whole.

If I have a cake and cut it into 12 pieces and eat one piece. I would have eaten one twelfth of the cake.

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12

I hope you are still with me, cause this is the best bit!!

The numerator can never be bigger than the denominator.

Meaning, I can’t eat 13 pieces of a cake that has been cut into 12 pieces. The denominator tells us the limit.

Now think of fractions as an analogy for our ability to HOLD.

When I say hold I mean the archaic, picture Mel Gibson yelling in the Braveheart movie, hold!!

Hold:- It’s our ability to keep or sustain a specific position, to weather the storm, to withstand discomfort, to bear the weight of a person or thing.

HOLD is our numerator, the top number. It represents the parts.
The denominator, the bottom number is our ability to be HELD.

We can never hold (sustain)
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more that we are held (cared for).

Who is holding you?
Who are your community?
Who are your tribe?

The people who we are held by aren’t always family. They are friends, parents from school, work, mates from the gym. There the people that are checking in on you, supporting you, encouraging you! They are your community, your tribe, your kindred.

How you are HELD, supported by your community gives you capacity to HOLD, to withstand whatever storm you are in.

I hope in this season you are remaining connected, that you are slowing your pace and walking lightly. There is some heavy stuff going on. If you are not conected, there are support centres in place. I've posted a list of numbers on the page. We don't have to journey alone.

I'm finishing off writing another post about 'The Art of Being Held", so keep an eye on this page.

Time and simple gifts this christmas Returning to basics, pare back our Christmas present lists and focus on the moments of joy surrounding the act of giving that special gift to our loved ones