Module 1

This is Your Brain on Nature

“Nature's Call to Wild Science is proving what we've always known intuitively: Nature

does good things to the human brain. It makes us healthier, happier, and smarter.”

The Difference Between Leadership & Management

“For any company to be successful, it needs management that can plan, organise and coordinate its staff, and leaders that are inspiring and motivating them to perform to the best of their ability.”

The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults

“This study provided evidence demonstrating the effect of diaphragmatic breathing, a mind-body practice, on mental function, from a health psychology approach, which has important implications for health promotion in healthy individuals.”

Breathing Exercises for Better Metabolic Health

“Research shows that the physiological effects of an overactive nervous system and increased cortisol also have a negative effect on our metabolic fitness.”

Take a Moment for Your Soul to Catch up with You: a Beautiful African Story

“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”

-Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Your brain on nature: 6 ways green space improves mental health

 “…people living in neighborhoods with at least 30 percent tree cover were 31 percent less likely to develop psychological distress, after adjusting for other factors. If you have a choice to walk on a path lined by grass alone or by trees, the latter may be a better bet for your mental health.”

Empowering and Limiting Beliefs

“Everything you see in your life is bound up in thoughtforms that either propel you forward or hold you back. It is useful to examine the beliefs you hold that empower you.”

How To Use Empowering Beliefs To Overcome Limiting Beliefs And Find Freedom

“A mindset is the way you think about and intuitively feel things. Because your limiting beliefs are triggers to unhappiness, changing your mindset can go a long way toward eliminating those barriers that inhibit your ability to achieve your goals and move forward.”

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Or Fawn: How We Respond To Threats

“The fight or flight or freeze or fawn response has been with us since the beginning of time and still plays a crucial role in coping with stress and threats in our environment.”

What is a Flow State and What are it’s Benefits?

“By definition, mindfulness is the quality of being present and fully engaged with whatever you’re doing in the moment — free from distractions or judgment, and aware of thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them.”

What Are Your Values?

“…take the time to understand the real priorities in your life, and you'll be able to determine the best direction for you and your life goals.”

Watching the English - Kate Fox

“The rules of weather-speak. The Importance of Not Being Earnest rule. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo. Humour rules. Pub etiquette. Table manners. The rules of bogside reading. The dangers of excessive moderation. The eccentric-sheep rule. The English 'social dis-ease'.”

The Games People Play - Eric Berne. M.D.

“A brilliant, amusing and clear catalogue of the psychological theatricals that human beings play over and over again” 
Kurt Vonnegut, author of Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five