Have you told a lie today? Statistically, you will have told two. So why do we lie? Well, it’s an evolutionary trait actually. Evolutionists believe that the reason we have such large brains is to help us navigate the complexity of our societies and social structures. The ability to tell a convincing lie is one […]
Building Resilience into Youth
To say that I am concerned about children and young adults’ ability to cope in this world would be a gross understatement. More and more I find myself working with 18 to 23-year-olds, and the complexity of their relationships with others and themselves is intense. Given this, I wasn’t surprised when I learned that self-harming, […]
A lighter way to live
Do you know what’s good about living your life in the here and now? True peace of mind, that’s what. If you can live like this, in the here and now, neither you nor the world that you live in will be strained. When you’re in this space, you get to live a life that […]
Asperger Syndrome – A unique contribution to the workplace
I had spent all day with him in a workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to identify ways in which we could measure the culture of our company to track changes/improvements. He joined us at the request of the CEO and he made connections from company data to organisational culture that we HR/OD professionals would […]
Sex Education
So I was sitting (well slouching) on the sofa, watching some obscure lectures on human behaviour when we got to module 17, and the topic flashed up on the screen Human Sexual Behaviour. I was immediately taken back to my first year of secondary school and the Biology lesson with the giggle-provoking title of ‘Sex Education.’ […]
All the best people have the colours of the rainbow inside of them
‘He’s on the spectrum; she has OCD, he has ADHD, I think she has learning difficulties’ it’s amazing how many people I have spoken to over the years who have felt comfortable in diagnosing colleagues, friends even themselves as having degrees and types of neuroatypical conditions. (Neuroatypical is an umbrella term for anyone who could […]
The 7 Deadly sins of training
I have been in the corporate world for most of my professional career. Just before I branched out on my own, I was the Organisational Development lead for a multimillion- pound IT programme protecting a multibillion-pound government asset. I had in my portfolio the Culture, Capability and Resilience of both the IT and the Programme […]
An open letter to my friend
My dear friend I sat here tonight and thought about you; you filled my mind. And while I was thinking about you, I suddenly realised that I don’t know with any certainty where your head’s at, but I think I could guess. I know that we have never lived in each other’s pockets; that there […]
Building Resilience starts with pressing the PAUSE button…..
So what if it was never supposed to be like this. What if your mind was never designed to cope with all of this input that we force feed it every day. Television at home, in the gym, at the doctor’s, on the go, Radio in the kitchen, in the car, internet everywhere, even my […]
Motivation is from Mars; Commitment is from Venus
So you know those siblings who you hang out with, that couldn’t be more different? Well, that was my motivation and commitment at times. My motivation always tipping towards the eager side, while my commitment tipped slightly towards the sluggish side. Like two very different kids sharing a bedroom, they shared the same psychological space […]
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