Successful Supervision and Leadership

Introduction

When we engage and communicate with others, we generally feel valued, heard, inspired and connected. Given we live busy lives and are in a time of immense pace, our brains are processing about 1,200–3,000 bits of information every second. We have somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 thoughts a day and process each thought within 0.3–0.5 second (Neurocapability, 2019). We are spending more and more time on technology, engaging with social media each 24-hour period interrupting our sleeping patterns and connecting via other mediums rather than in person. As professionals, we do not realise that we are disconnecting from the very things that ground us, help us to feel connected and promote our health and well-being. One of the best ...