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I started my time off 21 days ago. And even though time is already passing, it feels like I just took off my shoes and rediscovered what it feels like to not wear sturdy shoes every day. And in doing so, I am observing what it feels like not to function at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, I'm in Bali, my former home, where I spent 12 years of my life. I wake up in the morning without a to-do list and ask myself: should I go for a walk today? Read? Eat? Meet someone? Or are there bigger questions I want to address today? It's amazing how quickly, despite everything, my inner critic pipes up: have you made the most of your time today?<\/span>
<\/span>Apparently, my brain is not yet familiar with the concept of \u201edeliberate unproductivity\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n

I really like my job, sometimes perhaps a little too much (certainly if you ask people who are close to me). My work is deeply rooted in my identity \u2013 so deeply that I sometimes forget about other parts of myself that have very little space in my everyday life.<\/span><\/p>\n

An important question for the coming months is therefore: Who am I if I am not constantly fulfilling my professional role, if I am not keeping up with the pace of a busy life?<\/span><\/p>\n

A team that makes time out possible<\/b><\/h2>\n

I am fully aware of how privileged I am to be able to afford this break \u2013 financially, family-wise and professionally. And I know that it would never have been possible without my team: keeping an eye on my postbox, continuing to schedule me into projects, and accepting as a matter of course that I would not be contributing to the community for three months. The reactions were overwhelmingly positive:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201eFinally!\u201c \u2013 \u201eYou have to do it!\u201c \u2013 \u201eI'm proud of you!\u201c I hadn't expected so much support from my colleagues. And I'm really grateful for that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why now?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The first spontaneous answer: I was very tired. Counselling is a profession that requires a lot of presence \u2013 emotionally, mentally, in group processes and in a world that is not content with small challenges at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

At home, it's more of the same: a single mother of two almost grown-up children, daughter of a mother with dementia. Lots of responsibility. Lots of love. Little respite.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the second very important answer: because now is a unique opportunity to spend time with my children \u2013 perhaps for the last time with this intensity \u2013 to travel together, to search for traces of the past in the country where they spent the first years of their lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What the next few months will be about<\/b><\/h2>\n

I don't have a bucket list or a secret to-do list.<\/span>
<\/span>But I have a research question:<\/span><\/p>\n

What emerges when I am not functioning? Who am I without roles, without the logic of usefulness, without the focus on permanent effectiveness? What issues, what thoughts, what desires and motivations rise to the surface?<\/span><\/p>\n

If, in the end, I take away just one feeling \u2013 a moment when I felt alive or curious or surprisingly free \u2013 that's enough. Perhaps even more than enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

And what does that have to do with my work as an organisational consultant and coach?<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed: a great deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

I help people make important decisions, dare to make changes, find out how to best allocate their limited energy, and courageously listen to what really suits them.<\/span>
<\/span>I can only do this if I practise following what my heart tells me, even in the face of internal and external resistance: pausing, reflecting, regenerating, reordering.<\/span><\/p>\n

This time out is not a quit.<\/span>
<\/span>I see it more as an act of self-preservation.<\/span>
<\/span>An investment in presence and energy and in the central relationship in my life, which means not only responsibility but also meaning for me \u2013 so that I can continue to hold spaces in which people and organisations can develop for a long time to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to return \u2013 not as someone who has \u201efigured everything out\u201c, but as someone who once again trusts that life and work should not be defined solely by productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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