Dancing 'Round the Handbags

A life-changing book and resources to support hard-working women to dance to their own tunes and find balance between work and life

Dancing Round the Handbags® is a self-development book, series of workshops and one-to-one coaching aimed at hard-working businesswomen.

Using the metaphor of the ‘handbag’ and the ‘dance’, it supports women to create clarity about personal direction whilst maintaining balance between work and life.

The Dance

Chapter 1 in the book is The Dance’. The Dance is a metaphor for what women do each day; dance to the tunes of others. These are all the day-to-day tunes that either project women towards their purpose and goals, or hold you back, creating imbalance, stress and guilt. The multiple roles of mother, wife, boss, friend, daughter, lover, cook, and colleague etc. means that a woman sometimes dances to too many tunes all at once. This often results in rarely having time for self, soon forgetting her own dreams and doubting her unique potential; her own music.

The Handbag

The handbag in this book is a metaphor for being female and the remaining Chapters are different handbag items; each being a metaphor for varying aspects of a woman’s work and life. For example, The Mirror chapter explores your image; how you see yourself, The Lipstick chapter explores how women mask stress to show resilience and coping (‘putting on a brave face’) and The Diary chapter explores work/life time and priorities. The handbag represents a different facet of you; who you truly are, and who you can become.

By reviewing your dances and de-cluttering your handbag, you will return to the dance floor of life, to dance to the tunes that you want to dance to.

Lynne Copp, Founder of The Worklife Company, and Co-Founder of VIA Experts Ltd, is an Organisational Development expert, executive coach, author and public speaker. She is an inspiring leader who not only creates motivation for change, but also delivers organisational and human wellbeing solutions relevant to today’s business, people and leadership environments.

Lynne is co-creator of the Living Organisation™ Framework, alongside Ali Dawson, Senior Partner.

Lynne is retained as a leadership coach and consultant by many organisations and works with Boards and Senior Leaders to create transformational change in leadership environments and culture.

Prior to setting up the Worklife Company, Lynne held a senior role in Hewlett Packard, and worked in the defence industry where she began her career in electronics engineering.

She published award-winning book: Dancing Round the Handbags®, which is a coaching resource to support women to achieve their potential whilst balancing work and life.

Lynne is retained as an executive coach for a number of organisations, is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), an active member of Association of NLP, and a Certified Women Owned Business Member of WEConnect International. She has a Masters in Organisational Development & Design, and currently completing her masters in Coaching.