Understanding the deep impact of spending time alone – a conversation with Wilma Allan, Growth and Development Mentor, founder of Being at The Cottage, creator of The Leadership Renaissance and author of The 9 Enduring Elements For Leaders In The Pursuit

Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend

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Welcome to Leaders in Conversation with me, Anni Townend. The podcast that helps you to grow your confidence and courage as a leader.

I created this series of candid conversations for leaders to share their inspirational leadership stories, weaving together the threads of their life, offering valuable insights and rich experience to help and inspire you on your own unique leadership journey.

In each episode leaders share their personal life and leadership stories to encourage you to delve in what you really care about – your values and beliefs, your purpose and passions and how to live these through your leadership every day, in all that you do.

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

In this episode Wilma and I delve into and weave together:

• How making change always starts on the inside of ourselves
• What it means to discover and lead from who we are, not from who we think we should be
• The value of being present and avoiding the zip wire of time
• Understanding the deep impact of spending time alone
• Why now, more than ever, there is a need for a leadership renaissance

Wilma’s three top tips for leaders looking to lead differently

1. Make time to spend time alone and notice how this shifts your thinking and feeling

2 Find your ways of nourishing and replenishing yourself, and your purpose not only for your leadership but for those around you

3 Look within, change starts on the inside of ourselves.
ABOUT WILMA

Wilma is a Growth and Development mentor to leaders and emerging leaders in the pursuit of something extraordinary, including People who are part of leading climate change solutions. She has a very special cottage in the heart of the Black Mountains in Monmouthshire where she invites clients to spend time alone. Here she uses the space and silence at the to allow the extraordinary to emerge.
ABOUT BEING AT THE COTTAGE

Being at The Cottage offers a range of experiences with scope. When leaders are in the pursuit of something extraordinary, it will have a positive impact for others. It is something that will steer other people and the planet, as well as themselves, towards a better future.

Clients can come and stay from 24 hours up to 7 nights at the cottage, which is tech free, and they are fully catered for with delicious food.

Spending time alone at the cottage will give clients a profound experience of what it is to be present and in time.

It’s important that the experience of being at the cottage is supported afterwards, so work continues together long after the client has left.

To find out more about Wilma and Being at The Cottage do visit her website www.beingatthecottage.com/experiences and follow her on LinkedIn where she regularly posts or email [e-mail]