February Highly Recommended Read This month’s recommended book is Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and Hope to Find Hope by Johann Hari. You can watch Johann in conversation with Decca Aitkenhead, interviewer for the Guardian from a Thursday lecture at the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) below. This is a beautiful, deeply…
What critics do? We all have an inner critic. Critics tend to: Get in the way of our aspirations and potential success. Evaluate us from the sidelines without doing any actual work! Judge us and our feelings, behaviours, and actions. Sometimes even judge our entire self as in, “You’re just all bad, worthless, a loser”.…
I got interviewed recently as a speaker for the Association for Coaching 2013 national conference Time to Develop which was a great deal of fun. One of the interview questions concerned the need for everyone to take time out to develop. In my experience building career and leadership programmes for many different professionals as well as…
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.” – Lawrence Block Needs are things that are either essential or very important for healthy life. For example as an organism, humans need oxygen to breathe, live and…
It’s been a busy month writing invited blogs which is such a joy. This blog written for Clinfield – an organisation that is championing and actively supporting career development for research practitioners and especially nurses in UK – came as a result of putting together an exciting new programme that I will be offering around…
Last month I wrote this blog for Psychology Tomorrow site in New York. I came across the magazine by chance and right away loved the form, style and the combination of the art and psychology in it. It’s so inviting and stimulating. I invite you to check it out for yourself. Be inspired. Be moved.…
We all have days when life seems blue. We get a piece of news that’s not great and then our mind recalls another related event or thought, and then it beautifully projects a fear into the future and before we know it, we’re feeling less than enthusiastic about the future. Well, that was how I…
For centries many cultures believed in signs. For example native American Indians viewed all things (living and dead) as having a spirit and a meaning. Listening to the signs was an integral part of Indian life. I have never tried this out for myself, though on many occasions I experienced a deep feeling, call it…
Whether you’re running a business or attempting a big project or career change. This blog article I wrote for Women Unlimited will give you useful insights and a chance to learn about yourself. I hope you enjoy it. I am at the moment drafting Part 2 looking deeper into the psychology of the Hero.
While planning the next European Community Coaching Conference for CTI coaches 2013, we got talking about books we would recommend to others and my colleagues were impressed with how quickly I named my top three books. So it gave me an idea to write a blog about them. While there are many books that are…