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The Aspire 2016 M.A.D. Global Leadership Programme

I will be attending The Aspire 2016 M.A.D. Global Leadership Programme in London 25-27/1 !!  see details at http://www.aspirewomen.co.uk/index.php/events/event_details/the_aspire_2016_mad_global_leadership_programme. I’m attending this as a M.A.D. (Make A Difference) woman starting a new project (my current contract ends in 2017)  and looking forward to Connect, Inspire, Support, Enable women  … … sounds familiar? … ..  Thanks […]

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First Steps

My husband and I made the decision to leave the US about 2 months ago now. We each went straight into research mode after that. He is a software developer (read: professional nerd), so his tack was to start gathering and reconciling numbers, trying to figure out where in the world we can afford to

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On Mindfulness

New Year resolutions are about changing and improving my-self, about creating another, a better version of my-self. But do I really know who I am. How much of this “I” is a posture, a programme that has been created to make me functional in the society and culture I live in. This posture is only

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On Mindfulness

Meditation is about being present. It sounds very simple. But there is a part of me which doesn’t like what is in the present. The critical/thinking mind is never satisfied with what’s here. It wants: more, better, different; it always has a wish of improving, changing and going to what was in the past or

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10 best winter beaches – a black bird’s guide!

The plethora of holiday ads offering tempting summer deals can’t compete with birthdays and New Years topping up my tan in winter sunspots, a ticket to tranquillity… Gunjur Beach, Gunjur, Gambia Djembe drumming at the Pacific’s edge, deserted during my month-long stay with a friend, one week in a 4-star beach hotel then eco-huts, soul

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On Mindfulness

Word “meditation” is sometimes replaced by “sitting”. A posture one takes to meditate is really not so important, but obviously the easiest and most comfortable one is sitting. So instead of saying I meditate one can say I sit.   When I meet my friends for a chat I usually meet them at a cup

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‘From Confusion to Clarity – Through Transpersonal Life Coaching’ by Jean Gilhead

First published in International Coaching News – 12th Edition http://www.international-coaching-news.net/ICNOnlineMagazine     As most Life Coaches know, when a client says, “I don’t really know what I want in life…I just want to be happy”, we can feel stumped.  Traditional Life Coaching can only, by its very nature, help someone reach a clearly definable and measureable

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