Oriana was in Paris this week, so that we could run in-person Emotions at Work workshops for a client team. This was a long awaited moment, on many fronts, as we had been planning and looking forward to this since the end of 2025.

We converted our online module to a fully offline experience - no deck, as per my long-standing policy - with music, flipcharts, dot stickers, patafix, Time Timers, all my favorite pens and the whole shebang. We were happy delivering together, and very pleased with how the experience was received. We had opportunities to share a few lunchtimes and drinks with the team, too, which is always a huge benefit of being onsite at a client’s office. Lots of rich exchange about our work on emotions and team culture, as well as the pressures of AI in business.

In between the client work, it was wonderful to walk around Paris together, meeting up with NEAW alumni and friends. And having established hiking as a thing we do when we’re together in person, we spent a long weekend with friends in Nancy and the Vosges, exploring a part of eastern France that was new to me. Here are some photos: