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As I spend more time figuring out what this new role of Chief Explorer looks like, I have been using a few channels to experiment. In stepping away from my leadership role, I wanted this new role to give me the opportunity to come up with ideas as we travel and explore things locally. I’ve already talked about the idea that the journeys are internal as well as external. Ideas flow from thinking as well as from external stimuli. I’ve also been really clear that the explorer role is not just tied to the organisation that I founded and have worked with for nearly a decade.

As the new book shuffles towards publication and a soft launch, I am turning some of my attention to what comes next. “The Inner Fire” took a while to come to fruition and has brought together my thoughts on coaching, on alchemical psychology, my work as a poet and the work I have developed on … Read more

A few years ago “PC” (that’s pre-COVID) we went on a Road Trip through New England and up into the Canadian province of Quebec. It was a fantastic trip. We spent a few days in Montreal and June had done her research (as usual) which led to us searching out a bookshop called Drawn & Quarterly. This little jewel in a suburb on a non-descript backstreet was filled with comic books. I browsed for a while and then picked up a couple of beautiful books. The limitation of being across the Atlantic from the UK, was the fact that I had a limit to luggage on the airplane otherwise I would have come out with a pile of books. 

I haven’t written here since last September because I have been preoccupied with the not insignificant task of figuring out how to semi-retire as well as I could and to begin to define what the new role of Chief Explorer is all about. There was a lot of the work involved in this that didn’t lend itself to “working out loud”, but I have been capturing the process as it evolved and will be sharing more about the year-long experimental process that led to me stepping back as founder to become the Chief Explorer.

Hi there. I am Stuart Eglin. For the past three decades I have been working in the English National Health Service. For the last decade