The holidays can be a stressful time for many people. There are pressures to spend time with family, to find the perfect gifts, and to budget for extra expenses. Along with all of this, there is often the added stress of travel. It can be tough to maintain mental health during the holidays, but it is possible. Here are some … Read More
How the Workplace Resilience Movement Lost its Way and How to Save it
The psychological resilience movement promised to emancipate us from suffering and empower us to overcome whatever adversities life threw our way. However, increasingly it’s seen as a tool that enables worker exploitation. How did it come to this? As we will see, the seeds of the movement’s decline were sown long ago. Fortunately for all of us, a new generation … Read More
The Great Procrastination: Hybrid work and the Mysterious Case of the Lollygaggers
Not everyone is thriving while working from home. For some employees, their productivity has plummeted and with it their sense of self-worth. In this month’s piece, we look into the deeper drivers of chronic procrastination, how hybrid work is exacerbating it for some, how individuals can regain control of their time, as well as what managers can do to better … Read More
Losing Touch: How Lack of Community Primes us for Conspiracies, Conflict and the Coffin
Take Two Friends and Call Me in the Morning. There’s a little town in England that’s done a remarkable thing. In a reasonably short amount of time, the township of Frome has been able to reduce emergency hospital admissions by 15%. Meanwhile, hospital admissions in neighbouring towns rose by 30%. What is Frome’s secret life-saving technology? The local medical practice … Read More