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This website invites you to explore how we can change our attitudes to conflict and better manage the disputes in our lives to improve our communities, families and workplaces.
Latest Blog Posts
Honour Your Breath
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness Moments We can live for weeks without food and days without water, yet only minutes without oxygen. My friend is a yoga teacher who works a lot on the breath, connection and [...]
Living Authentically
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness Moments Becoming aware that 'you don't know' what you don't know' is like having a veil removed from your eyes. Realising this gives you more opportunities for learning, growth and development. Your way of processing things will change [...]
Hearts and Minds – A Collaboration
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness Moments I recently read a very interesting article by Bilal Hafeez that referenced what Harvard Educationalist Howard Gardner, calls the “Five Minds For the Future.” Gardner talks about a different way of thinking [...]
Giraffes, Jackals, the DRM and a Central St Martin’s MA Student
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness Moments Those of us who know Maria will concur that she generally delivers thought provoking content and a good blast of oxygen to any project, audience or idea that she touches. Wherever [...]
Healing Society
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness Moments Those of you who know me personally may have heard that I have recently been involved in something deeply disturbing. While my Phd from the University of Life has given me the tools to [...]
Interpersonal Synchronisation
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness Moments The author Ken Wilber once said that “for every knot in the mind, there is a corresponding knot in the body.” Western medicine has always kept the mind separate from the body, creating divisions between [...]