Please take a few minutes to watch this Nature and Mental Health video. UK Mental Health Awareness Week, 10-16 May 2021 We all have mental health and it can be easily forgotten until we feel the adverse effects. This year, UK Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, is focussing on nature as a way to help […]
We’ve all been marked and stretched by the events of 2020. I feel that it would be better if we didn’t rush to live as we did before. It won’t fit and it will feel strange if we do. Covid-19 and 2020 are more than a once in a lifetime wake up call. I’d really […]
This year spring-time reflection and new beginnings feel so poignant. During this time of Covid induced distancing we may have an extraordinary opportunity to commemorate and reflect. We could be in a new defining era. Defining a new and better normal. Let’s hope so. Sending much love. RELATED COVID-19 | 100 Days Later | Time […]
Here is an excellently delivered, enjoyable and informative 12 min TEDTalk . Even during lockdown we are being encouraged to exercise. Why is this talk so good? Because even a renowned neuroscientist only learnt the difference taking exercise makes when she went through the experience herself. Knowing the data was fine. Walking the talk made all […]
Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at The Graduate Institute, Geneva. In this 10 minute Pocket Lecture he will explain better than anyone the epidemiological curve of coronavirus and why the economic shock will last longer than the pandemic. One of the best illustrations of how economics maps and models human behaviours at both the […]
Things didn’t change over a year, month or a week. Despite international news coverage of Covid-19, everything changed in a day. It’s now week 2 of self-isolation which has evolved into a lockdown (in all but name). We can only leave our homes for 1 hour of exercise or shopping. My 1 hour of state […]
When I originally wrote “Resilience and Endurance | What are they?” on 2nd March 2020, little did any of us know how quickly the world would change because of Coronavirus. There is absolutely no doubt that this sudden disruption will have an effect on every aspect of life. The last week has shown shock, disbelief and responses by […]
With the arrival of COVID-19, organisations and individuals need to plan and to be able to deploy with immediate effect a remote working strategy. Many of us have learnt how to manage working flexibly between the office and home. But if its something you don’t do regularly or haven’t done over a longer timeframe, […]