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How Bright Is Your Light?
Keeping your own light burning through the darkening months
As the evenings draw in, something inside can dim along with the daylight. Less energy perhaps, or less motivation? If that’s where you are, you’re not failing — you’re describing what happens to any light left untended as the dark comes on.
Here’s what people have known for as long as there have been long winter nights: when the light fails outside, you don’t sit and wait for spring — you make your own light. Across the world, in the darkest weeks of the year, people light lamps on purpose. (Diwali is one of the first and loveliest of them).
Your own light works the same way. Left to itself through a long, depleting winter, it can flutter and fade. You need to tend it if you want to keep it burning bright.
In Ian’s words: “You can’t stop the dark coming, but you can learn how to keep your light bright.”
So this session will start with a look at the state of your light right now — and then explore how to keep it bright.
Free live session · Friday 6th November · 1pm UK · 50 minutes via Zoom
What we'll explore
- State of play — how to tell honestly how bright your light is right now, without judgement, and why that reading really matters
- Why the light dims — what the darkening months quietly do to your energy and motivation, and why it's far more common than anyone admits
- What every flame needs — the surprisingly simple things that keep a light burning, and what quietly puts one out
- When you feed it — and when you don't — why we so often wait until we've "earned" the very thing that could rekindle us sooner
- Tending your own light — a chance to see clearly what feeds your flame and what doesn't, and then do something about it
- Enough to share — how keeping your own light lit is what leaves you with warmth to pass on.
It’s easy to let a light run low without ever noticing until it’s nearly out. The next demand arrives before the last one’s been recovered from. The next month asks more of you before this one’s given anything back.
This session is about the alternative: noticing the state of your own light honestly, understanding what actually feeds or drains it, and doing something about it before the dark months do it for you.
You can't stop the dark coming, but you can learn how to keep your light bright.
Founder of ITS · Trainer & Coach
Ian McDermott
Ian McDermott has dedicated his life to giving people the tools to deal with the challenges they face and the skills to create their own solutions. He is renowned for making learning simple and enjoyable, for rekindling people’s curiosity and confidence, and for a teaching style that helps people feel more at ease in themselves and the roles they find themselves in.
Ian is the founder of International Teaching Seminars (ITS) and a leadership, innovation and collaboration consultant. He has trained a generation of NLP Practitioners, NLP Master Practitioners and Coaches working all over the world. His 15 books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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Will there be a Q&A?
Yes, ask as we go along. Bring your questions, or chip in as they arise.
Will there be more sessions like this?
Yes, this is part of our monthly Springboard series, so keep an eye out for the next one.
What if it's my first session?
You’re very welcome whether it’s your first or your fifteenth. No prep, no prior experience needed. Just turn up, listen, and take what’s useful.
Can I invite colleagues?
Please do. Anyone curious is welcome. Just forward or share this link.