Last week was busy. Not just busy in terms of time, but constantly switching contexts. Still, it seemed to go well. I particularly enjoyed a day with a group of NHS clinicians, exploring stories of ‘becoming’. How they ‘became’ doctors, then consultants. How they became an effectives practitioner team.
This was not an exploration of qualifications and titles, but rather of a sense of being. The ways that we feel we have changed, over time.
I hope to use these stories, with them, to create a 100 day journey for new medical practitioners, people just finishing their formal first stage qualifications, but who may not yet have woven themselves into their practice. We meet again this week to make some videos, share stories, and write some challenges and questions for these people.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider your own story of ‘becoming’.
When did you become what you are today? Was it when you signed a contract, got a qualification, first did a thing, or when someone recognised you for what you are?
The stories that the groups shared were interesting: it was often a ‘moment’, sometimes one that surprised, them, and sometimes one that they were very deliberate about, where they came to inhabit their space.
Our stories change over time, but new chapters are not only marked by formal events. They represent a change of identity as well.
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