It’s been a tough 12 months as we’ve all come to terms with isolated living. For many it’s seen personal relationships flourish while more have witnessed them collapse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few weeks back on LinkedIn I put up a post “Put your oxygen mask on before helping others..<\/a>.” which attracted a lot of comment. I’d written it after a conversation with a friend who is a very perceptive relationship therapist. She and I had talked about the effect of Lockdown Fatigue and I was drawn to a comment she made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “…we\u2019re missing out on the life-affirming impact of seeing our value reflected back at us through the eyes of our friends, family, work colleagues and clients.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n What followed via LinkedIn chat was a very thought provoking discussion about #distributedworking and the need to develop some form of virtual peripheral vision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Luis Suarez<\/a> who many of you will know commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, there is no substitute for the F2F interactions. We would always need them. After all, we are social creatures who crave for a strong sense of belonging and bonding, but through ESNs we’ve definitely being able to augment a different kind of interaction, just as powerful: conversations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n These conversations came back to me as I heard the sad news this week of the passing of Lotti Henley one the people I featured in the ‘most admired’ section of my site. Here’s what the Mayor of London said about her a few years back: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018\u2026an<\/em> 86 year old war hero; an Austrian aristocrat who was forced to eat scraps of food from bins to survive during the Second World War.<\/em>..She says her lasting memory of hunger is the motivation behind her new campaign, Plan Zheroes<\/a>, which aims to link up hundreds of shops, supermarkets and other food outlets across the capital with local charities in need of free food.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lotti was a person who made it difficult to say no to, a truly unique person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s a moving montage of her life in pictures put together by her grandson. <\/p>\n\n\n\neating scraps from bins in Austria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n