Today we are looking at Coaching & Mindfulness and asking can you be a Mindful Coach? It is something that I look at in my book ‘Uncovering Mindfulness’ too, but it is rather a big Iceberg floating in a vast ocean of thoughts, customs and practice, &, something I feel that…

What Are Secret Business Mondays? Gil Scott Heron “Have you heard the word, Johannesburg”, was the refrain from a 1970’s protest song by Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson. I used to listen to it on Radio Caroline. There have been many ‘Words’ since then — Calls to Arms, Signifiers, Totems, Attractors —…

Questions, Questions, Questions Is it possible to be a Mindful Leader? How can Mindfulness enhance the practice of Leadership? How can being a Mindful Leader enable you to be the best Leader you can be? Why isn’t there a book on Mindful Leadership? All good questions and considering there have been…

Oh Crap, I forgot to be Mindful Today! In this post in our short series dedicated to Mindfulness, we get down to the nitty-gritty and look at some Top Tips & Hacks for Mindful Living. But firstly, some perspective. It’s so important to never loose sight of the fact that you should never…

Mindfulness is WD 40 for Education! Mindfulness has been described as being WD 40 for Education — Why so? If we take a look at what it says on the tin, perhaps we’ll find some clues. …

Hello and welcome to today’s post, which is going to be looking at Mindfulness and its relationship with the Brain. Mindfulness is now everywhere, from Parliament to Primary School, which is not only pretty awesome but also extremely encouraging. But how well is it understood? Making the complex not so complex As I wrote…

So, What is Mindfulness? Well firstly, let’s look at what it’s not: It’s not sitting with your legs crossed on a mat, neither is it ‘West Coast’ soft and fluffy stuff Neither is it something that is only for followers of Buddhism — In fact, Mindfulness is no more Eastern…

Welcome the first post in a short series we call #MindfulnessForLife designed to help you Uncover Mindfulness. We will be sharing a number of Mindful Hacks in coming weeks. These will provide highly effective shortcuts and tips that you can use to improve & introduce a real purpose into both…

Is It Harder For Women? — In my previous Blog on work-life balance or work-life integration if you’d prefer, I looked at it from a personal perspective. …