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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

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
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The Big Little Book of Resilience by Matthew Johnstone

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
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The Space Between The Stars by Indira Naidoo

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
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From Age-ing to Sage-ing by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

What an empowering title for a book! Who wouldn’t want to be ‘sage-ing’ as we age?  Zalman Schachter-Salomi and Ronald S. Miller, rabbi, and writer respectively, introduce us to the rich concept or eldering, or sage-ing. We live at a time in Western society, in which as we age, we are labelled ‘elderly’ with all… Read More
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The Upside of Stress

Kelly McGonigal PhD is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University. Her TED talk on the upside of stress has received more than nine million views. Wow! This says a lot about the huge interest there is in this subject. The bad rap given to stress, is met full on by McGonigal; universally, and… Read More
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Dear Me – A Letter to My Sixteen-Year Old-Self edited by Joseph Galliano

The best recommendation I can make for this book, is that it inspired me to write a letter to my sixteen-year-old self! Here are some standout quotes for me in the book … “I realise that you need to just plough straight ahead and make all the big mistakes, because out of them will come… Read More
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What Makes a Great Coach

  What makes a Great Coach? Top 10 practices of the world’s best coaches. Freshly landed is What Makes a Great Coach? by Emma Doyle with Natalie Ashdown. What is so unputdownable about this book is the succinct style, clear layout, and informative, accessible wisdom. I read it in a gulp – excited to discover… Read More
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Dignity by Donna Hicks

  The subtitle of Dignity includes the word ‘essential’ and that is certainly the takeaway regarding dignity holistically, (defined as recognition of our worth and value), that we have from this book. Hicks makes a compelling case for the role of dignity in all our lives, over and above its stated role in resolving conflict,… Read More
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The Power of Regret by Daniel Pink

Daniel Pink is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Drive, To Sell is Human and When. Pink uses the largest sampling of attitudes about regret ever conducted, his own World Regret Survey – which has collected regrets from more than 16,000 people in 105 countries – to identify the four core regrets that… Read More