You don’t need a big life event to activate your Change Mastery. We need these skills everyday: adjusting to a new routine, learning a skill, navigating a tough conversation. Each time you cycle through Pause, Mess, Play, Try, Restart, you build your capacity for change.

Change mastery doesn’t mean you’ll always find it easy. It means you’ll be better equipped to walk through the uncertainty with courage, curiosity, and intention.

Change is not waiting for us at the next closed door. Change is happening every day.

There’s a particular kind of flutter that shows up, right in the pit of our stomach.It comes when we’re waiting for something… It’s that unmistakable sense that our insides have turned into a tiny circus, butterflies doing back flips, clowns juggling thoughts that we never signed up for. We call it “butterflies.” But what the heck actually is ‘butterflies’?

Children are trying to navigate change everyday. Friendship groups, family changes, new lessons, new school, new teachers, new body, new thoughts, new latest thing they all need! Using these steps might help to talk about it without the icky parent child conversation we sometimes end up having.

Starting from the beginning is not a flaw, it’s fertile ground. It’s where fresh ideas, deep learning, and meaningful growth take root. So the next time you find yourself at the start of something new, be bold enough to ask, humble enough to listen, and brave enough to not have all the answers.

Navigating change isn’t about controlling it, it’s about collaborating with it. By pausing, allowing emotions, playing, trying, and intentionally restarting, we create a relationship with change that is less about survival and more about evolution.

“People often fail to act on their good intentions because they do not specify when, where, and how they will act. ‘Implementation intentions’ help to automate goal-directed behaviour by linking situational cues to responses.” Dr Peter Gollwitzer

“We might be in the same ocean, but we are absolutely not in the same”

As we reach the moment where we have to decide whether to buy a new bottle of shower gel or will hand wash just do, it’s a moment of reflection… 18 months ago I came here with some ideas, hopes & dreams. When one door closes… you have to say goodbye, and celebrate the door that is closing. You can’t stay mournful for too long. Onwards we must go. To the next venture. The next adventure play park. The next co-working space. The next Regimental Mess.