I'm a recovering academic who uses her insights from behavioural economics to develop methods that facilitate collaboration. In my weekly newsletter, I share the summary of my latest interview on the "workshops work" podcast along with an application of facilitation as a life and leadership skill.
New Beginnings and 10 Commandments || 🎤 Episode zero of Unprofessionalism
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Dear Reader, Do you have a new year's ritual? A word or a commitment for the months to come? Since 2016, I write my 10 commandments and choose a word every January. A few years ago I shared my commandments in this newsletter. One reader (and good friend in the meantime) started writing hers too. Now she sends them to me every year. It reminded me that sharing our commandments turns them into commitments. It makes it real. What makes it even more real is looking back at the changes and developments. My word last year was integrity. This year's is intuition. My 2025 Commandments:
My 2026 Commandments:
What a difference! 2025 was defensive. Building walls. Learning what drains me and saying no to it. Figuring out where I end and professional expectations begin. 2026 is offensive. Opening doors. Acting when things feel right, not when they look right. Surrounding myself with people I want to be around, not people I'm supposed to be around. Integrity required boundaries. Knowing what we stand for. Protecting it. Getting clear on what matters. Intuition requires ease. Listening to what wants to emerge. Moving when the moment's right. Trusting what you know without needing to prove you know it. We can't do the second until we've done the first. That's why today, I feel ready to launch Unprofessionalism—the podcast. Episode 0 is up now. I haven't yet figured it all out, but at least, I stopped waiting for permission to do it imperfectly. 🎙 Welcome to the podcast…Welcome to Unprofessionalism! My shiny new podcast, a provocation in the making, and the place to challenge everything we’ve been taught about being professional. Together, we’ll be peeling back the limitations of professionalism, on a mission to restore our humanness and bring joy, defiantly, back to work. You’ll hear stories from scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, and true masters of their craft as we question the very construct of professionalism, its silent expectations, how we can break free, and seek to be unprofessionals in all that we do! But first, join me from the very beginning. In episode 000, we’ll journey from the birth of professionalism to its existence in the age of AI, and why the only sustainable thing left for us to be is our real, brilliant, unfiltered selves. Find out about:
🎧 Click here to listen to the episode📥 Download my 1-Page Summary 🎧 The workshops work Podcast ClubNow that the workshops work podcast has retired, you may want to find peers with who to listen back and discuss some of the old episodes, to deepen our understanding and to link the content with our lived experience. All you have to do to join the Podcast Club is to join me on Substack: https://myriamhadnes.substack.com/ January 29th, we will gather around the theme of Polarisation in Facilitation. Click here to sign up for free. That’s it from my side! I hope you enjoy the new podcast. I wish you trust in what you already know, and courage to move when it’s time. I’ll see you next week! Myriam
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I'm a recovering academic who uses her insights from behavioural economics to develop methods that facilitate collaboration. In my weekly newsletter, I share the summary of my latest interview on the "workshops work" podcast along with an application of facilitation as a life and leadership skill.
Happy New Year, Reader! I wish you a healthy body and a content soul. I wish you inspiration, and the courage to act on it. And I wish you meaningful connections, conversations, and collaboration for 2026. As the year is about to begin, I find myself asking a familiar question: what do I want to start, stop, or continue? We tend to focus on beginnings. New habits, new goals, new energy. It's exciting. Yet, we've all learned that what we forget to stop often comes at the highest cost because...
Dear Reader, What tells you that you’ve done a good job? Pause for a second before you answer. Is it a number, a feeling, a comment from someone else, or the simple relief of being done? Most of us have a metric, even if we’ve never named it. And once it’s there, it starts steering far more than we realise. I noticed this recently, in the most unlikely of places: on my meditation cushion. Before my last Vipassana retreat, a “good” meditation was easy to define. It was a sit where my mind...
Dear Reader, I came back from ten days of silence on Sunday. No phone. No writing. No reading. No podcasts. Just long hours of sitting, scanning sensations, and noticing how quickly the mind wants things to be different. Less pain. More comfort. A way out. Vipassana calls the practice equanimity. The capacity to stay with sensation as it is, without craving when it’s pleasant and without aversion when it’s unpleasant. Not suppressing. Not indulging. Simply noticing. When we stop feeding our...