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Brighton (Sussex)/ London UK

Where business training, management & leadership training, time & stress management, coaching and team building meet "alternative" content. For all who integrate BOTH worlds as human business beings - to benefit themselves, their work and the world.

Monthly Archives: May 2010

Why some spiritual theories are stupid

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Here's an article by Dr Paul Linden, an embodied training teacher who we recently hosted here in Brighton on why some supposedly spiritual theories are stupid and harmful. Ken Wilber also discusses such theories in his book about his wife's cancer and I've blogged about things that aren't as spiritual as they're supposed to be ...

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Stress Symptoms

Stress-symptoms

I work a lot with stress management and resilience training and get used to seeing the signs and symptoms of stress. These can be acute such as increased heart rate or more long-term like weight gained through comfort eating. I will focus on the chronic symptoms here as these are the less readily recognised. It is essential ...

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What is Intuition?

Intuition

Intuition is something we all use yet few understand. Science often ignores the subject as an inconvenient truth and new-age nonsense moves in in its place. So exactly what is intuition? Intuition is something that I rely upon in my own training business and life in general (working in conflicted countries a few years back it saved my life a number of ...

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Embodied Coaching and Leadership

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Integration Training has pioneered working with the body in UK business environments along with handful of other training providers. I was encouraged then to see two new descriptions of this work online from Ireland and the US recently, both nicely encapsulating our own somatic or embodied coaching and leadership training. See also the ...

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UK Stress Laws

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Here's a link to the Health and Safety Executive's summary of UK stress laws. Integration Training's leading-edge experiential stress training ensures compliance. Exert: ................ "What does HSE require UK employers to do about stress? Employers have duties under the Management of Health and Safety ...

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How to Deal With Shit – CBT and Resilience

shit

I am obsessed with resilience and stress management and resilience training and have been dedicating myself to a project called Achilles,  supporting the well-being of those working in conflict-zones. When asked what this project was about by a friend recently I said simply "It's about stopping people going nuts" which he got straight away.  It ...

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