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How do you host a productive meeting with a diverse group of people who you might not even have met before? How do you embrace the wide variety of different backgrounds, life experience, strengths, skills and expertise in a democratic and enjoyable way and still achieve useful results? By: “Awakening and engaging collective intelligence through [...]
The Paradoxical Commandments 1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. 2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. 3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. 4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. 5. Honesty and frankness [...]
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” Charles Caleb Cotton. This guest piece, kindly submitted by James Bradshaw, explains why friends, old and new, are a crucially important part of being human and of being happy: “A couple of TV news items caught my attention [...]
It was during a family camping trip several years ago that the idea hit me that downshifting might be a positive and beneficial thing to do. I realised, when preparing for our holiday, that the questions I was repeatedly asking myself were: “What’s the absolute minimum we need to take with us?” “What can we [...]
A couple of years ago, I coached an editor of one of the leading glamour magazines here in the UK and she subsequently wrote up her experiences of being coached in an article about Voluntary Simplicity. One of the challenges she faced in living and working more sustainably was cultivating a change in perspective on [...]
Whether or not you’re a maths or statistics enthusiast, from time to time certain numbers become particularly significant in our lives. When my sons were younger and I was spending most of my time home educating them, we had a book called “Curious and Interesting Numbers” into which I would delve every so often to [...]
When I first take on a coaching client, one of the questions I ask them is “What do you want to lose?” This might be material possessions, as in having a major de-cluttering and recycling session. A little less obvious, but often just as important, are the other items that they might have on their [...]
“To live more simply is to live more purposefully and with a minimum of needless distraction.” Duane Elgin 1. Reducing materialism. Voluntary simplicity is not the same as austerity. Rather, it is about living with less so as to free ourselves from the burdens of materialism.( i.e. Everything we own needs some maintenance, time and [...]
This site seeks to explore the heart and soul of downshifting to a more sustainable, ethical and holistic way of living and working, in keeping with the needs of the planet, humanity as a whole and ourselves as individuals. (read more)
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