Waking Up to Being Adopted, by Nick Mabey

Waking Up to Being Adopted, by Nick Mabey

As far back as I can remember, I’ve always told heroic versions of my life to myself and others. My adoption is a classic example. I was chosen. I was special. Looking back now, I see that as a combination of shiny veneer - designed to look and feel good - and solid armour, to [...]
Living with intention: by Tessa Mace, Strategy consultant, BUPA

Living with intention: by Tessa Mace, Strategy consultant, BUPA

Curiosity about myself was completely non-existent until my thirties. I was the pragmatic, action-oriented type who cracked on with life; diligent, career-focused, and striving to make my way in a solid corporate job within a giant of the global banking industry. Having undergone the standard corporate psychometric profiling - Myers-Briggs and the like - I [...]
Living Your Process: 2021 Review

Living Your Process: 2021 Review

Stella Horgan Living Your Process (LYP) is a six-month course, designed exclusively for Hoffman graduates by Senior Hoffman Facilitator and business coach, Stella Horgan (pictured). Our first six-month online programme was led by Stella and other members of the Hoffman facilitation team, and the first LYP cohort graduated in July 2021. The broad aim of [...]
Father’s Day: by events and marketing manager Alan O’Mahoney

Father’s Day: by events and marketing manager Alan O’Mahoney

My dad left our mum before I was born, so I grew up with my twin sister, older brother and mother.  As a child, every year my mother would ask us if we wanted to send our father a birthday card and every year I refused. There was a door in my heart marked 'dad,' [...]
Finding my identity: by counsellor Marion Browne

Finding my identity: by counsellor Marion Browne

In the summer of 2018, I was recovering from breast cancer. I felt battered and bruised, both physically and emotionally, but so very glad to be alive and recovering. The cancer had left me desperate to get on with my life and live it to the full; the ever-present fear of it returning propelled me [...]