U is for Michael Ungar: Developing Resilience In Children

Michael has helped many parents, teachers and children to learn about resilience.

He is the author of a regular blog in Psychology Today. This is called Nurturing Resilience: Raising children to be competent and Read more

A is for Thomas Armstrong: Enabling Special-Needs Students Flourish

This guest blog is written by Thomas Armstrong. He is a pioneer in helping us to see the strengths in people with different personalities and learning styles.

The article is taken directly Read more

S is for Stories For Hope: Young Rwandans Overcoming A Violent Legacy

Stories For Hope is led by Patricia Pasick Ph.D, a psychologist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She works with a team from the University of Michigan and local NGOs in Rwanda. Here are excerpts from Read more

E is for Echoing Green: Unleashing Talent To Solve World Problems

Echoing Green was founded in 1987 by leaders of General Atlantic. Since then it has supported more than 500 social entrepreneurs who have worked to improve life on the planet.

According to the organisation’s Read more

P is for Kristin Powers: Facing Possible Huntingdon’s Disease

Kristin believes in enjoying life and passing on a heartfelt legacy. Here is the official introduction to her talk at TEDxTEEN.

Kristen Powers has always refused to believe that a person needs a car, Read more

S is for Jonah Sachs: The Power Of Positive Stories To Change The World

Jonah starts this talk at the Sustainable Brands conference by saying he has 15 minutes to give people some ideas they can use to change the world.

We can speed the shift Read more

H is for Phil Hansen: Embracing Our Limits Can Enable Us To Be Creative

In this video from the Sustainable Brands Conference, Phil describes how he embraced his greatest fear. Here is the official introduction to the video

In his moving talk, artist Phil Hansen describes how he Read more

P is for Daniel Pink: Factors That Motivate Us To Perform Fine Work

In this animated video Daniel gives an introduction to the key factors that drive people in their work. This is based on a talk he gave at the Royal Society of Arts.

The topics Read more

The Focusing On Your Lifetime Picture of Success Approach

Everybody is different and everybody has different pictures of success.

What is your picture? Looking back on your life when you are 80, what for you will mean you have had a successful life?

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H is for Carl Honoré: Slowness Can Improve The Quality Of Our Lives

Carl Honoré hit a chord with his best selling book In Praise of Slow. More recently he has produced The Slow Fix.

He believes that human beings can enrich their lives by doing some Read more