Facilitating Change: Encouragement, Insight and Skills Building
Supporting and facilitating change is a cornerstone of the helping professions. However, facilitating change in others is no easy task. There are factors related to the human condition working against the process of effective change. This lecture explores why this might be, and presents some thoughts on overcoming these challenges, looking at how encouragement, insight […]
The One Cause Gigglathon 2016
Back by popular demand, this year’s One Cause Gigglathon is going to be better than ever. Get ready to laugh your socks off with one of our best ever line ups including the one and only Reginald D Hunter headlining, supported by Adam Bloom, Maff Brown & Ross McGrane (MC). Reginald D Hunter “His presence and intelligence […]
When We Laugh in Therapy: Gemeinschaftsgefühl and Humour
Laughter is a subtle tonic. It can relax and invigorate us at the same time. Something in your life may feel like a persistent source of misery, and yet at some point it might also strike you as ridiculous – you might even start to laugh about it. This ‘release point’ could be arrived at […]
The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything
Today at Harvard, one course has unexpectedly become the most popular on campus: Michael Puett’s History of Chinese Philosophy. What is it about his lectures that has captured the attention of the world’s brightest young minds? In this special event for the how to: Academy you can experience yourself the life-changing impact Professor Puett’s lectures […]
Generation Rent – London Renters’ Hustings
With private renting now the biggest tenure in London, housing is the number one issue at this year’s Mayoral Election. But there is just one opportunity for the candidates to debate their plans to fix the housing crisis head-to-head, and take questions from ordinary renters. Generation Rent, PricedOut and Renters’ Rights London are organising a […]
Phil Pearl: God and Mental Toughness
Are we crazy to believe in God or crazy not to? Is our Mental Toughness strengthened by belief in a higher power or are we more resilient without faith? Life isn’t easy. How we make sense of existence is crucial to our mental health. Is psychotherapy, philosophy and coaching the solution to life’s problems or […]
Windy Dryden: A Single Session Integrated Approach
Sometimes coaches and therapists will only have one session with a client. At this meet up Professor Dryden will explain and demonstrate how it is possible to effectively work with clients in a single session, achieving realistic but positive results with a view to future therapeutic work. Professor Dryden will cover the basis of this […]
Nicola Martin: How to deal with Difficult People and Win
The world is full of difficult people; there’s the manipulators, bullies, control freaks, and back stabbers just to name a few. Perhaps the best way to deal with difficult people is to just avoid them. Unfortunately for most of us this is not practical – Therefore we need to devise strategies to diffuse these energy […]
Ben Judah: This is London
In This Is London, Ben Judah turns his keen reporter’s eye on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of the city’s immigrants – from the richest to the poorest – to discover the complex and varied individuals who are making London what it is today. He’s had dinner with oligarchs and meetings with foreign […]