16 Sep Episode 19: What Can Animals Tell Us About How to Work Better?
Are there things that animals can tell us about how to cope wth work stress and ultimately how to work better? Our guest today is a psychotherapist with a passion for horses, and she has found a way to marry the two together. As she points out in this episode, human beings are mammals, but they are mammals who do not do a good job of being attuned to their own needs and acting on them. At a time when many of us feel that our lives are not completely in control, it may be time to take a cue from that and see if there are ways that we can express our needs in the workplace and ultimately get to a place where we are both happier and more productive as a result.
Guest:
Beth Killough
Owner, The Circle Up Experience
Beth Killough is the owner of The Circle Up Experience, a consulting firm which provides leadership training and culture development to corporations, universities, teacher groups, first responders, and non-profit organizations. Circle up has trained thousands of leaders all over the country and has designed long-term culture programs to transform workplace relationships.
A life-long cowgirl, writer, professor, and a licensed psychotherapist, Beth has 30 years of experience working with people to awaken their innate leadership gifts so they can live and work with more authentic relationship and connection. Circle Up’s model of Natural Leadership and experiential learning with horses integrates human psychology, animal behavior, and natural systems to offer a unique approach to personal and professional development. This approach moves quickly through the rhetoric in human groups and gets to core human issues.
Beth owns Take a Chance Ranch in Morgan Hill, California where Circle Up hosts workshops. The ranch also hosts women’s events, recovery groups, weekly meditation with Dhammakaya monks, horsemanship events, and art programs. She and her human family live on the ranch an ever-growing menagerie of animals who support and participate in the Circle Up work.
Beth is a seeker and a truth-teller who brings heart and humor into her work. She is gifted at finding The One Question that needs to be asked and using her cowgirl courage to ask it.
Beth has an MA degree in Clinical Psychology from Santa Clara University and an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Arizona State University.
Links:
https://www.thecircleupexperience.com/
https://www.thecircleupexperience.com/courses/ (including online and onsite) Natural Leadership, Natural Grit: Building Resilience, and Boundary Bootcamp, as well as free downloadable Radical Self-Care Guide
Beth’s social media links:
https://www.facebook.com/thecircleupexperience
https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-killough-992861132/
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