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Michael Bungay Stanier is a charismatic writer and coach with a conversational, upbeat style which may belie the depth of expertise on offer. His beguiling, quirky humour has us laughing as we read what should be common sense principles, but you know how uncommon, common sense is! This book is the best-selling coaching book of… Read More

It is an often repeated refrain of mine in my coaching and personal life, that we need to practise self-compassion as we navigate our days, because there are so many situations in which we take a battering (figuratively speaking). Given these ‘batterings’ take place already and are largely beyond our control, let’s not join the… Read More

When you hear the term emotional regulation, do your thoughts predominantly go to regulating negative emotions? For example, controlling your anger or managing your anxiety. It’s common for us to have this association but regulating our positive emotions is an equally important skill. The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence have a helpful acronym, PRIME, which… Read More

For all our my manifesto experiences we use a coaching approach to support you draw out the content to create your personal manifesto. At the centre of the coaching approach is the question. Perhaps the most powerful question of them all is AWE – And what else? At first glance, this might seem to be… Read More

Matthew Johnstone is a passionate mental health and wellbeing advocate. He is a best-selling author, illustrator, photographer, and for many years was the creative director at the Black Dog Institute. Matthew is also a long-term friend and we have so much admiration for the inspiring messages and images he brings to life and shares with… Read More

Our 21 year-old daughter loves to express herself creatively, particularly in her care for her friends. This shows up with thinking of and purchasing, or making, birthday presents – and at the moment it is the season of 21st birthday presents. Interestingly, another new type of event to celebrate has started to appear in our… Read More

When it comes to wellbeing, with our cultural emphasis on the term positive, whether this be ‘positive emotions’, ‘positive education’, or ‘positive psychology’, we do have times when we worry that people are trying to chase happiness, and that this can lead to the opposite effect. Some young people (and adults) may hear and understand… Read More

This statement is attributed to Socrates. How it resonates with us at my manifesto! It is a powerful statement and as with many such statements, it has many implications. Who would ever say that their life is not worth living? Is it not life a gift by any reckoning? Yet, as Socrates dictates – and… Read More

I finished reading The Space Between the Stars by Indira Naidoo, known to many of us a broadcaster and television presenter of current affairs and news programs, on my 71st birthday. I was acutely aware this is 22 more years than she had with her sister Stargirl, who unfathomably died of suicide. The grief in… Read More