Kia ora I am Christina Baird,
Psychologist. Kindness Consultant. Wise Woman on a Mission.
I founded The Kindness Workshop because I believe work can be a place of support, creativity and delight, not exhaustion and burnout.
Because burnout is not a personal failing. It’s the outcome of systems that lack care.
RADICAL KINDNESS
The tool of resistance that women need to dismantle systems that silence.
There is an old world of work.
A world where you hide parts of yourself just to show up. Where creativity is penalised and compliance is rewarded. Where empty bureaucracy masquerades as process and entrenched thinking calls itself the way things are done.
Where the voice that dares to say “we can do better” is labelled difficult. Cynical. A problem to be managed. Where your instinct to support people, to think flexibly, to reach for something bigger than a productivity target — is quietly, systematically shut down.
This is not a broken world. It is a world working exactly as it was designed to.
The question is: designed by and for whom?
Imagine liberation — not as an event, but as a Monday morning.
You wake up and want to go to work. Not because you have to, not because you’ve numbed yourself to the cost, not because you have to pay the bills, but because the place you’re walking into was built for you to flourish in. Your voice is expected there, welcomed, Your full self is given space, there is a sense of connection and your gifts are appreciated, developed.
Workplaces where being fully human is not a risk you take, but the culture that comes alive around you.
This is the world Radical Kindness is building toward.
Radical kindness stops us burning it all down — and helps us resist, restore, reclaim, and recreate.
You’re capable, committed, and values-led. You care deeply about your work and the people in it.
And yet something feels off.
You’re losing touch with your passion and your compassion. You’re easily exhausted. You have ideas and instincts that don’t get heard. You hold back before you speak, wondering if you’ll be labelled as difficult again. You’re losing your sense of what matters to you, of who you are. And you wonder how you can keep advocating for the changes you long to see.
You’re not the problem.
You are working in a system that was not built for you. A system that requires your compliance, your silence, your endless capacity to absorb and adapt and produce. A system that has confused your depletion for dedication and called it normal.
And the quiet voice inside you that keeps saying this isn’t right, there has to be another way — that’s not weakness. That’s the beginning of something.
You are an emerging radical. You just don’t know it yet.
Radical Kindness in Practice
I believe the first act of resistance is realising that you aren’t the problem, that actually the system is not supporting you.
I believe that restoration of your passion and vitality is the first act of resistance, valuing yourself enough to put your wellbeing first.
I believe reclaiming your voice is not necessarily loud. It is the quiet, daily practice of trusting what you know.
I believe we are not here to just burn it all down. We are here to recreate — to build workplaces where being fully human is expected and supported.
Radical Kindness is the thread running through all four, it is what makes resistance sustainable
A Little About Me
I came to this work as a gender in the workplace researcher. But research alone wasn’t enough — I longed to make change in the real world, on behalf of women who struggled to flourish at work.
That took me into organisations where Gen Y were told to adapt to boomer cultures that had no intention of changing. And then into workplace wellbeing, where exhausted people were sent to resilience seminars while the team dynamics exhausting them went unacknowledged.
Every time, the individuals were fine one to one. Together, something else took over.
Radical Kindness is what I distilled when I reclaimed my voice.
You can find my writing on medium
Ways To Work With Me
The ideas are free. The writing is ongoing. And for those who want to go deeper:
Stay in touch and see my ideas and movement develop by subscribing to my weekly e-mail - from Christina.
Speaking Keynotes and conversations that bring Radical Kindness to organisations ready to do things differently.
Coaching do you want to resist through kindness? Find out more about my emergent radicals coaching package.
Supervision regular support and growth for women in health, social services and ministry.
Self-kindness as the heart of self-care training for your organisation
I’m Christina Baird. Join my movement.
It would be nice to get to know each other a little bit before we start working together wouldn’t it? We could start by connecting on social media.