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How to Change: A Psychology-Based Guide to Updating your Life

How to Change: A Psychology-Based Guide to Updating your Life

This is the first in a three-part blog series about change in which we will cover: The Psychology of Change, a Practical Guide to Change, and How to Manage Change (in both yourself and others) while minimising negative mental health outcomes and optimising positive ones.

Change is a constant throughout our lives, and change can impact our mental, physical and emotional health in a myriad of ways.

it can be helpful to separate all of the cultural and mental clutter that surrounds goal-setting and behaviour change and figuring out how best to do it, when and how you want to and are able to, and not because an internet personality who exudes the scent of bran flakes while they do burpees at 5am makes you feel like you would somehow be a better person if you could force yourself into the same habits.

Can AI Prevent Burnout?

Can AI Prevent Burnout?

Burnout: a state of mental and physical exhaustion, characterised by feelings of cynicism, depletion and distance from our work.

AI: the simulation of human intelligence by machines, and used for everything from data analysis to customer service and even creating art and writing romance novels.

Can Artificial Intelligence help us to beat burnout, and regain our sense of humanity at work?

Gender Microaggression - What is it, and how does it impact women at work?

Gender Microaggression - What is it, and how does it impact women at work?

During a panel discussion of women leaders that I recently attended, the panelists were asked ‘what do you consider to be your biggest achievement?’

Without exception, every panelist responded ‘just surviving.’ One added ‘just managing to get to where she was.’ They gave the sense of having managed to move forward and reach their goals, but of having to perpetually push through a current, whilst dragging a parachute, to do so.

What was holding them back and how can we recognise gender discrimination in the modern workplace?