Episode #45: Systems Thinking for Health with Brook Thorndycraft

✨ Join us for Episode 45 of Inspiring Insights! ✨ We hosted Brook Thorndycraft, Organizational & Systems Change Coach (follow her on IG @bigwavesbrook) this week.   Listen to the audio version here: https://theerinedwards.com/podcast We chatted: - Brook's own healing journey - What exactly is organizational change? Do we need to change? Or do we need to accept that change is inevitable?  - The importance of leaning into CHAOS - What Brook does to help LEADERS SHINE! - How to overcome Inner + Interpersonal obstacles - Embodied practice and how it can help YOU in your work - TOP TIPS for how we start thinking and acting toward healing ourselves & society  Who is Brook (she/her)? Brook Thorndycraft, MA, B.Ed., Q.Med, works from K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) as a Mediator, Coach, Facilitator, and Organizational Consultant.   She uses a combination of cognitive, embodied, and creative approaches rooted in conflict transformation, popular education and group process, systems theory, mindfulness, Deep Democracy, and Somatic Experiencing® to identify and address personal interpersonal, and systemic patterns that get in the way of meaningful change. Brook is a white queer cis woman of Jewish, Austrian, and English ancestry. Brook comes to her work from a healing-centred perspective, recognizing both the individual and collective traumas that need to be healed and the importance of finding joy and connection.  It’s not only about work.  For her that involves singing loudly or walking her dog on the beach.  Find Brook on Instagram @bigwavesbrook  +++ Reawaken to Mindful Bliss: The 6 week online mindfulness course is here! Register here: https://theerinedwards.com/mindfulness-course