Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi MD PhD

Last week, I co-led a relational leadership session for a group of coaches. One man reacted very strongly to my first intervention. The group froze. Some people wanted to mediate, others wanted a conflict resolution process, and a few understood that this was part of the work we were doing. I stayed with him in the tension and revealed the impact on me. He revealed his anger. We gradually wove our way back to a shared reality. It turns out he didn’t realise I was one of the

That's it this week. You're on a digital device with food to eat, a roof over your head - and, hopefully, no bombs falling outside your window. I remember going to sleep in Algiers hearing heavy mortar rounds between the military and jihadists, and life somehow went on. We need so little to appreciate the sky. I want to be a voice that acknowledges you're doing fine, even if there are challenges, losses, and uncertainties. Watching Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, I was r

Do you notice the harms of social media and smart phones but find them hard to avoid? This week, the Wellcome Trust Digital Determinants of Health hub was launched and will start developing the first national cohort to answer some of the questions about the harms of social media, led by Dr Amrit Kaur Purba. This is a little personal for me because Amrit and I worked on choosing and crafting this career path through coaching not too long ago. There is very good evidence that s