Resources
The Imaginal Coach
Discover The Imaginal Coach—a practical and thought-provoking guide that helps coaches, leaders, mentors, teachers, and parents unlock new possibilities, navigate change with confidence, and empower others to thrive.
“Mark has distilled a lifetime of experience into practices and frameworks of concrete value to coaches and leaders.”
Jeremy Bentham
Co-Chair, World Energy Council
Former Head of Shell Scenarios
The Healthy Rhythms Podcast
By Mark Dunwoody
The Healthy Rhythms Podcast explores leadership, resilience, coaching and navigating change without losing our humanity. Through practical ideas, stories and conversations, Mark explores healthier ways of living, leading and developing others.
Grab a cup of coffee and join the conversation!
Healthy Rhythms for Leaders
Healthy Rhythms for Leaders explores how leaders can make a meaningful difference without losing themselves in the process. It offers practical rhythms for sustaining resilience, nurturing the inner life and leading well over the long haul.
This book contains timely words for an unusual time that can become timeless.
What if the most powerful changes in leadership begin not with a new strategy, but with a better conversation?
The Healthy Rhythms Podcast is for leaders, coaches and changemakers navigating complexity without losing their humanity. Hosted by Dr Mark Dunwoody, global leadership coach and author of The Imaginal Coach, each episode blends personal stories, practical insights and deep empathy to explore resilience, adaptive change and human flourishing.
Connect with Mark:
https://healthyrhythms.org/
Instagram: @markdunwoody
Between Land and Sea: The Sacred Rhythms of Lindisfarne
What can a tidal island and a group of ancient Celtic monks teach us about leading through uncertainty today?
In this episode, based on Chapter Seven of The Imaginal Coach, I travel to Lindisfarne, a place shaped by the daily rhythm of land and sea, retreat and return, stillness and movement.
I explore how Celtic Christian communities responded when their world seemed to have lost its instructions. Rather than waiting for certainty to return, they created faithful rhythms of prayer, learning, hospitality, work and rest.
We also consider Aidan’s gentle approach to leadership, the importance of meeting people where they are, and why good coaching does not remove uncertainty but helps people navigate it faithfully.
Questions to reflect on:
• Where is your thin place—the space where heaven feels close, and your soul can breathe again?
• How might you build a healthier rhythm of retreat and return into your week?
• What would it mean for you to lead or coach from stillness rather than striving?
Lindisfarne reminds us that renewal often begins with rhythm: inward to renew and outward to serve.
This episode is based on Chapter Seven of The Imaginal Coach: How Leaders Unlock Human Potential One Conversation at a Time.
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