Posts in PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Why go to Glastonbury, or any major summer festival? The latest research suggests it could change your life
“You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” We need to start paying attention to systemic trauma--the pain in our organisations
“If depression is grinding to an exhausted standstill, anxiety is the terror of ever getting started”. William Davies on the anxious generation
Sound thinking: how the resonances of music and sound go deeply into the places that need to heal, with Alexandre Tannous
Novelist Elif Shafak highlights Virginia Woolf’s 1929 call to peace as deeply relevant to women today, in our own age of wars
In 2024, do most men still lead lives of quiet desperation? A new documentary, Silent Men, seeks some answers among the taciturn
Alternative Editorial: Five Observations On The UK General Election Debate
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, PARTY POLITICS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, YOUTHpat kaneGeneral Election, party politics, emotional literacy, political emotions, green agenda, RegenA
Can a novel "offer the lived history of the individual against the official narratives of state history"? This year's International Booker Winner does so
The Inner Development Goals - relationship to self, cognitive skills, caring for others and the world, social skills, enabling change - are marching on Stockholm
ACTION, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PRACTICE, PLANETARIAN, SPRINGpat kaneinner development goals, SDGs, sustainability, development, adult development
Prof. Cornel West engages with Edinburgh - delivering the Gifford Lectures, pitching to be President, standing with peace protestors
Write a letter to future generations. Or imagine how your region will be. But doom-&-gloom messaging about climate change just doesn't work
ACTION, BIG PICTURE, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, SPRINGpat kanepsychology, political emotions, climate emergency
Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach
Rekindle, Reclaim, Roots... From her Manchester base, Ruth Ibegbuna aims to bridge class, social and cultural divides in the UK
YES WE CAN, YOUTH, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, MANIFESTOS, LAB FOCUS, INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, LEARNINGpat kaneschools, supplementary schools, manchester, london, Glasgow
“The magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.” Natality lessons from D.H. Lawrence
“People used to be born into communities, then found their individuality. Today people are born individuals, then find their communities.” Here comes the Post-Individual
There is a growing “University of Movements”—where what is learned comes from activism and the construction of alternatives
The “Earthrise” picture from the Apollo missions, and the Church Forests of Ethiopia, both “extend the circle of ourselves to nature”
YES WE CAN, SPRING, PRACTICE, PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, COMMUNITYpat kaneethiopia, church, eden, space flight, earth
Considering the Fens of Cambridgeshire, their eventual reflooding, and what resistance that could provoke, from Greg Frey
Generation Z is veering away from alcohol and drunkenness. Cost, precarity and an acute sense of the demands of the future seem key
ACTION, YOUTH, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INDIVIDUAL, FUTURES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kanealcohol, alcoholism, drinking, food, gen z
Alternative Editorial: The Dream Of Ecocivilisation
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PLANET A, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kaneecocivilisation, regeneration, RegenA, Planet A, china, ecological civilisation, social imaginary