Posts tagged with 'values'
How to live well: 1st meeting - values, self-determination theory, roles & goals
4th September 2018
"When I get to heaven, they will not ask me 'Why were you not Moses?'. They will ask 'Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?'" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of …
Upgrading the 'breathing space' meditation, some research-based suggestions (3rd post): embodied values
16th May 2017
I have already written a couple of blog posts "Upgrading the 'breathing space' meditation, some research-based suggestions (1st post): mindfulness & naming" and "Upgrading the 'breathing space' meditation, some research-based suggestions (2nd post): touch & affectionate releasing" where we have taken our attention inwards, noting & naming our internal state/our …
Kidney donation: preoperative preparation & facing challenges generally - values are central
27th January 2017
I'm soon due to have an operation on my left kidney. I'm donating it anonymously to someone else who needs it pretty desperately. I have already written about this process - see "Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering" and "Kidney donation: what are the risks?". Primarily these kidney-focused blog …
Warwick BABCP conference: 1st morning - trauma memories & a master presentation on four decades of outcome research (2nd post)
22nd July 2015
Yesterday I blogged about the pre-conference workshop I attended on "Anger dysregulation". Today was the first full day of the conference proper. Breakfast illustrated the kind of helpful, fun conversation that can emerge at this kind of event. I talked to Fiona McFarlene & Tara Murphy who were going on …
A project to change long-term interpersonal patterns: building & maintaining commitment
8th April 2015
"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was but vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." T. E. Lawrence Our lives …
Most people agree on the healthy key values they want to live by and this is real grounds for hope
14th December 2014
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." Confucius I've long been a fan of Professor Tim Kasser's work. He published his fine first book "The high price of materialism" back in 2002 - see this good 5 minute YouTube video to get a sense …
Practising "doing": autonomy, values and "driving the bus"
27th September 2014
"When I get to heaven, they will not ask me 'Why were you not Moses?' Instead they will ask 'Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?'" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi. Earlier this week I wrote a blog post on "Practising 'being'" about …
Building on our strengths
4th July 2013
A few months ago I wrote a series of three blog posts on the theme "New research suggests CBT depression treatment is more effective if we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses". Possible points ... the series of studies that have suggested that a strength focus is more helpful (the …
"To reach the other shore with each step of the crossing": a brief embodied cognition meditation exercise (3rd post)
30th December 2012
(This blog post is downloadable as both a Word doc and a PDF file) When I get to heaven they will not ask me, “Why were you not Moses?” Instead they will ask “Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could come?” Susya, a …
"To reach the other shore with each step of the crossing": linking this with embodied cognition (2nd post)
28th December 2012
(This post & the previous one in the series are downloadable combined into a Word doc or a PDF file) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes." Proust "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds …