Pancakes and Peacocks | Issue 4

Greetings fellow Reimaginers 🖖🏼

We did it! We had our first meet-up. We are trying to turn a very messy problem into one that makes sense. The problem being that we don't feel like the current world of work works for a lot of people. We are therefore seeing how we might find a way to make that better.

Right now, there is a crew of us who are meeting up to start to figure out how we might begin the process of reinvention. So far we have had a retro, then a core of our team have boiled it down to themes which we will finesse and test at the next meet-up.

If you want to join us, the next one is April 21st at 1pm UK time. Please ping me directly and I will invite you along.

If any of you have any articles that you would like to share with us all on this topic, please share them with me so that I can share them in the next newsletter. No one human can reinvent how we do this stuff alone, but as a collective, we might, just might, start to get somewhere.

Big love, Penfold-Brown 🖖🏼

Maylis Djikalou is a true thought leader in the human transformation space. We connected via our wild minds on a panel and have since become thought partners on life, love and the human condition. 

In this episode Maylis shares a powerful perspective on how we might lead ourselves to show up better for others. 

Find the full episode here.

That time when I wanted us to learn to celebrate our differences

Hands up who at some time in their life has felt like they aren’t intelligent? 

If a lot of you just threw your hand up in the sky, I am right there with you. What I can also tell you is that there are lots of people like us, and it is no surprise; we exist in structures and societies that favour one kind of intelligence. 

It’s insidiously etched into our souls throughout education, and keeps going in the working world. We exist in a competitive system that teaches us the dark art of comparison early on. You can basically supplement the word intelligent for pretty much any of the other things that we think we aren’t. 

That comparison impacts us all in different ways and creates a tonne of different cages in our minds depending on who we are and our level of sensitivity. 

Read my full blog on this here.

Here is a great article on passion and purpose shared with us via Manuela Ktir

"If job seekers do wish to prioritize passion, I encourage them to diversify their meaning-making portfolios. By this I mean, find places outside of school and work to center meaning-making and self-expression. To put it bluntly, the capitalist labor force was not designed to support us in our personal growth and sense of fulfilment; it was designed to increase profit and value for the owners and stakeholders of the places we work. By understanding the power of the passion principle, we can be better equipped to envision alternatives to it—for our organizations, for our institutions, and for ourselves."

Read the full article here. 

Lastly, a little video I shared on leading ourselves to lead others can be found here.

Until next time beautiful people 🖖🏼