I wonder if other practitioners ever find themselves questioning the validity of what they do? Of what they offer? I never question the...

Having considered all the facts, choose joy. This week’s thought provoker is dedicated to all people who have chosen to cultivate enough...

I’ve been tossed between the inspirational bravery of school children the world over, demanding the grown ups to take ownership of...

I have always been taken by Nancy Kline’s suggestion that we practicea 5:1 ratio of appreciation to criticism. Practicing appreciation...

I think one of my most favourite things in all the world is the way that someone can capture in words an idea that can cause...

What could be easier than to listen with such genuine interest in the unfolding thinking of another that you wouldn’t dream of...

And this is the simple genius that the practice of being a thinking environment for others is: treat people in such a way that what...

I find these days that my act of rebellion has to be in the face of unkindness: the choice to replace with caring the permission to be...

It doesn’t happen as often as I’d like, maybe because I’m not often relaxed and “let-go” enough? But when I went for a “polar bear swim”...

In this next year, I want to know more and more deeply that this is the right thing to do.

A friend said to me recently: “we're at the age where we just can’t take it for granted any more” and I thought “yes, and that in itself...

To walk the earth each day knowing that we are not in control of the outcome. To know that any moment, any day, could ask of you an...

It sounds simple, doesn’t it - “stillness of the quiet”? - and yet in times of weakness, fear and despair, stillness of the quiet maybe...

Sometimes it is hard to write. My fabulous social media Mage, Megan Hudson rightly suggested that given October is, amongst other...

To walk the earth each day knowing that we are not in control ofthe outcome. To know that any moment, any day, could ask ofyou an...

I find this to be one of the most powerful ideas to return myself to, especially when faced with behaviour from others that I do not enjoy.

Sometimes all we have is a rock and a hard place. Who do we need to be to face this, and choose to sing wonder, instead of past-based fear?

I have been struck again and again by the immense handicap we create for our lives when we treat ourselves and others as human doings,...

This is one of the most eloquent articulations of that challenge called faith that I have come across in a long time. And what a hopeful...

As a practise, ask the other if what you are thinking is going on, is whats going on for them.