Rumination
Taking a Chance
- Derek Roger
Evolution is often thought to be a process of trial and error. In fact, it’s the other way round: evolution proceeds by error and trial.
Who is in charge of your house?
- Cynthia Johnson
What is controlling your responses - your thinking or you, the thinker?
The 4th Dimension - 7 Ways to Let Go
- Cynthia Johnson
How to let go and find freedom from rumination and upset
Resilire et Robur
- Derek Roger
Resilience is both the ability to adapt to changes, and to stand firm when change is happening around you. We can practice how to do both.
The F-words
- Derek Roger
Fight, flight, flail or freeze. How we respond to perceived threat, the physiology behind our response, and how rumination can prolong it.
Something Mything
- Derek Roger
The field of stress and stress management has more myths than the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome together.
Don't worry, be happy
- Cynthia Johnson
A few months ago I attended the 13th annual conference on Happiness and Its Causes in Sydney.
Lizards and Leaders
- Derek Roger
Robert Ardrey claimed in The Territorial Imperative that a human being is 'as much a territorial animal as is a mockingbird singing in the clear California night'.
Another day, another myth
- Derek Roger
During the 1950s and 60s two US Naval surgeons noticed a relationship between the number of things that had happened to people and their tendency to become ill.
To sleep, perchance to dream?
- Derek Roger
Participants in the Challenge of Change Resilience training sessions spend time at the beginning generating objectives for the day, and a common theme that emerges from the exercise is about sleep.
The Challenge of Change: A New Zealand case study
- Derek Roger
One of the consequences of a recession is a greater need for evidence when making decisions about how to spend a diminishing budget.
Resolutions
- Derek Roger
New Year is the time for resolutions: a new year, a new opportunity, a celebration to mark the occasion.
Being Well
- Derek Roger
‘Well-being’ and ‘wellness’ are increasingly popular phrases in the training world, but what do they actually mean?