Posts in PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
To avoid the “wellness-industrial complex”, we must value our soul as a pathway to purpose and service, writes Mark Vernon
Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
"If you want Gen Z [or ReGen A] to stop being such 'doomers', start offering them solutions", suggests Alice Garnett
Digitally divided in society, echo-located in a neighbourhood, sanctified on a mountain... Documentaries that make a world
Jonathan Rowson on the "dissonance" we feel in the midst of our wars and crises - when bombs and aid fall from the same skies
Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations - like bearing current costs of mitigation - more than men
With the latest and coming wave of neurotech devices, the truth is that your brain may need a lawyer
To respond properly to climate crisis, says Steffi Bednarek, you have to wrangle your “internal family” - the manager, the exile, the firefighter
“Less mechanisation in life! Resist the machine apocalypse!” We’re pretty techno-optimist here, but these are powerful voices against
Alternative Editorial: A Socio-Politics For Our Times
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIO-POLITICS, YES WE CANpat kaneI-WE-WORLD, socio-politics, individuals, community action network, narrative, hope
Consciously replace your deep metaphors - for example, “argument is a war” with “argument is a dance” - and the reality before you changes
NEW ENERGY SOURCES, POLITICAL CULTURE, LEARNING, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, BEHAVIOUR, ACTION, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICEpat kanemetaphor, George lakoff, language
"Trans people literally built the internet, as queer and trans people have been ardent technologists since the beginning"
Defying norms of beauty or flourishing, body appreciation is a powerful route to sustained wellbeing
UN president António Guterres describes an "unhinged" world that cannot "come together to respond". So how do we learn to disagree well?
After half-a-century, Cindy Sherman is still photographing herself, showing how media (and now AI) splinters our identity
What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine
Young men are peeling off from young women ideologically, all over the planet. Or are these just stages of post-patriarchal development?
Don’t just talk about “climate”—zoom into “issues” and “places”, if you want such conversations to be effective. And other wise tips from A Larger Us
How do you embrace uncertainty? Be your own defence lawyer, devise alternatives, have a “can-do” attitude
Could a chatbot be your therapist? At Character.ai, millions of young people are turning to the "Psychologist" for help