Resilience in the workplace is a leading issue for boards, CEOs, and the People and Culture leadership. The workplace drivers for resilience are clear: People and teams in flow multiply productivity Mental skills – specifically situation agility – are essential Productivity requires emotional maturity and collaboration People need support in wellbeing and lifestyle disciplines Change […]
Safetyism, Snowballs and Fragile Youth
Book Review: Coddling of the American Mind, Lukianoff and Haidt, 2018 We parent, teach and support. We want the best for young people. What we are seeing is a collapse of mental well-being. At the same time, events of intimidation, violence and witch hunts increase. Lukianoff and Haidt take us on an evidence-based and carefully […]
The Eudaimonia Drive
Perspectives on Mental Health Week When we hear “mental health”, the words ADHD, social withdrawal, anxiety, depression and suicide tend to surface. This is counter-productive. Aristotle’s and the Stoics eudaimonia is a powerful idea. It may be a better frame to reduce suffering. Supported by 2,500 years of practical philosophy, eudaimonia means good (eu) spirit […]
Train up body, heart and mind
With attention disorders, anxiety and depression swallowing up ever more of our lives, should we wail, gnash our teeth and take our medicines? Or, could we use wellbeing – body, emotion and mind? We have massive, profitable industries to address our suffering. Starting with dubious diagnoses, mental health businesses, psychiatry and pharmaceuticals profit handsomely from […]
A Good Life: Science and Practice
How people bounce, grow, connect and flow Our life is a blaze of consciousness in an eternity of emptiness. Behind us is 13.8 billion years of an expanding universe. Ahead may be 2.8 (or more) billion years. Human life is a fraction of a billionth of time. So short and so precious. So meaningless and […]
A Guide to Resilience and Wellbeing
For 40 years, researchers have been investigating the impact of resilience on health, wellbeing and success. More recently, resilience has gained traction in popular culture, too. Across digital and print media – mothers, employees, trauma survivors and ordinary people are encouraged to harness resilience to improve their lives. In 2015, The New York Times published […]
The Disciplines of Excellence
A study of 21,000 highlights the keys to success Amidst the exuberance of opinion, ask a good question and then see what the data says before drawing conclusions. Blessed with an abundance of data from our Resilience Diagnostic we asked: what is the difference between the top ten percent and the lowest ten percent? This […]
Own your joy
The purpose that rises above all One thing every human seeks is joy. More commonly it is called happiness – a positive or pleasurable emotion. The evolution of joy is clearly based on our need to seek survival. From the simplest bacterium to the most evolved human, three billion years have embedded the drive for […]
Forget resolutions, try micro-mastery instead
Why wait until the 1st of January to start implementing positive change in your life? While the ritual of starting afresh can be exciting, more than 90% of New Year’s resolutions don’t stick. A resolution is the determined intent to effect change. The best time to lay the foundations for change is the moment you […]