Sunday Lecture – 8 Principles for Successful Optimists
As the philosopher Mark Bedau says “Change will happen and we can either try to influence it in a constructive way or we can try to stop it from happening or we can ignore it. Trying to stop it from happening is I think futile. Ignoring it seems irresponsible.” Which means there is really only […]
Sunday Lecture: Invisible England: The use of Holding Therapy in the UK
Holding Therapy is a dangerous and unscientific treatment in which therapists deliberately provoke and then restrain children (in this case children in care) often for many hours at a time.; Author of Invisible England Anya Chaika will describe the search for survivors of the programme and the civil and criminal investigations that followed when one […]
The World’s Most Improbable Event with Marc Abrahams
Conway Hall & Little Atoms present…; The World’s Most Improbable Event; with the Father of the IgNobel Prizes Marc Abrahams; Expect a plethora of scientists researchers journalists and communicators explaining research on; why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen what time of month generates higher tips for Las Vegas lap dancers stories […]
The School of Life Sunday Sermon: David Shrigley on Vice
David Shrigley is making a list of vices and virtues. He’s weighing them up. He’s sketching them out. He’s thinking about what he’s going to say. He doesn’t know yet. But when he settles his dark eye and mordant wit on his choice of our follies we can be sure this will be a sermon […]
Sunday Lecture – Ethical dilemmas of mental health interventions
Emerging ethical dilemmas of mental health interventions for civilian populations affected by armed conflict; Researchers and clinicians are collaboratively developing standardized “evidence-based treatment packages” to improve approaches to mental health treatments in war-torn societies. Although these therapies are widely applied and are often promoted as gold standards it has been increasingly recognized that their effectiveness […]
Kindness Behaviour Training: How to live a richer and more meaningful life
Action for Happiness Presents; Dr Paramabandhu Groves – Kindness Behaviour Training; How can we live a good life in a transient world where pain is inevitable?; Kindness Behaviour Training (KBT) is a new approach which helps us learn to be kinder to ourselves and others and lead a life which is richer and more meaningful.; […]
School of Life: Copying And Originality
Mark Earls will explore the lie of originality in all its aspects and show the value of ‘social learning’ (copying to you and me) to help us put unoriginality back in its rightful place. And of course most of what he says will be other people’s ideas.; Mark Earls is a leading thinker and actor […]
Empathy@Work
The Mindful Organization presents; Empathy@Work; Human consciousness is taking a step to a new level where independence and inter-dependence are intensively interwoven. Various leadership and organizational development theories state that the missing link to develop a sustainable way of living and working whilst achieving high performance through mindful leadership compassionate communication and willing collaboration is […]
Sunday Lecture – Thinking Like Einstein
Global problems won’t be solved unless we move from nation-centric thinking to genuinely world-centric (or global) thinking. But what precisely is wrong with our current nation-centric mode of thinking? How and why is it inadequate? And what does moving to world-centric thinking really entail? What does world-centric thinking actually look like?; John Bunzl looks at […]