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Welcome to this week's useletter.
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The newsletter that's useful. Focussed on your future not my past.
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Architects! We have a problem.
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and an existential threat.
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It’s all about looking after the wellbeing of our people.
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And this is a call to action.
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Two weeks ago I was at The Wellbeing of Architects Symposium. It was an extraordinary couple of days and I wrote a little blog post, filled with questions that came out of the Symposium (also linked below.)
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I’ve been ruminating on one juicy question in particular.
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“How can we be the care we yearn for?”
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- Narelle Lemon (Edith Cowan University)
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PS: I've updated my website with the detail of my new kit-of-parts workshops. Read all about them HERE.
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PPS: Parlour has publish the Guides to Wellbeing in Architecture Practice, as an output of the Wellbeing of Architects research project. They're for everyone and an incredible wellbeing resource. Download them HERE.
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How can we be the care we yearn for?
It’s a question to encourage self-reflection, empathy and taking action to prioritise our own wellbeing and that of our community. To do so, we might put our focus in a few places.
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Self-compassion
You can often be harsher on yourself than you might be on others. When you find yourself in a spiral down, take pause. Treat yourself, as you might others, with kindness, understanding and most of all have patience with yourself. Embracing self-acceptance and building more resilience in the face of challenges.
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Modelling the change you seek
Are you embodying the wellbeing principles you advocate for others? Be a role-model for the behaviours and posture you’re promoting.
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Care flows
By prioritising your own wellbeing you’re better able to care for others. Not only that, you’re going to inspire and empower others to take action, like ripples across a pond.
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Set healthy boundaries
Being too accomodating in one aspect of your life can affect another, eg too long work hours can impact relationships. Set and maintain all your boundaries and make them known to others, so they won’t cross them and can support you. Wellbeing fails at the point where our boundaries are breached.
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Community
We’re in this together. A supportive community is the best way to start to make the change we want to see. The research undertaken and The Wellbeing of Architects Symposium provides an amazing platform to build upon.
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Keep going. I’m right here beside you.
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recent useful blog posts...
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It might be time for the architecture profession’s leaders to starting learning form the ground up.
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There’s two main ways to stand out. Be different. or Be better. Copying is the route to unexceptional.
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Or…
do architects do too many of the wrong things?
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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
Maya Angelou
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