Integration Training Journal - Mark Walsh's Blog

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 2011

What is ‘GameTraining’?

GameTraining is an innovative and exciting approach to personal and professional development.  It is participatory, engaging and energetic.  To properly understand ‘GameTraining’, it is best to start by exploring its four component parts; games, group game dynamics, gamification and game theory. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Games Jane  McGonigal’s “Reality is Broken” breaks a game down in ...

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The Body and Leadership – Chapter 4 Narrative Extracts

A deeply personal narrative extract from my upcoming book The Body and Leadership ................ Cambridge, 30th August to 1st September 1996 The Body Off Centre I storm out of the pub into a stormy Cambridge night. Rain hisses like angry vipers as it hits my skin. I’m napalm. I’m rage incarnate. I’m hurt and I want to ...

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The Body and Leadership – Chapter 3 Narrative Extracts

Here are the supporting narrative extracts from chapter three of my upcoming book The Body and Leadership. ..............................   12th September 2004, Somewhere over the Mediterranean The Body of Dreams My eyes bulge paranoid as I try to get my bearings. When you wake up quick, for the first few seconds you don’t know who or where you ...

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Yoga and Psychology

Yoga Postures That Change You I work in embodied training, a field of work which shows how the postures and stances we take build who we are as people, effecting our mood, thinking, what we are capable of and the quality of our relationships. I apply this work to areas such as business leadership ...

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Can I Get a Decaf Skinny Love Please? – Starbucks and Business

Many of my "alterative" friends are critical of Starbucks, perhaps they have good reason to but I've never heard one except that they are popular. Here guest blogger Chris Kane discusses his take on them: .................... A letter To Howard Schultz to response to his new book entitled ‘Onward’

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Centring -The Definitive Guide

Here's chapter four from my upcoming book The Body and Leadership. Centring (aka centering ) is a term used for a very useful set of techniques that have up until now also been somewhat vague. This is the most thorough and rigorous article you will find on the subject.     Chapter ...

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