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Want to enjoy good relationships? Start with regular self-awareness practice.

"The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of...

The Season for Empathy

We are all familiar with Christmas charity appeals, the annual financial tug told in Christian terms of neighborly love and kindness...

Why Relationships Matter (and why we need to get good at them)

On the final day of their Upper Sixth year, students at a London school where I worked would ‘Muck Up’ the school. Despite apocryphal...

How many relationships do we need in our lives?

This week I've been writing about social networks - who we need (and don't need) around us for a supported, healthy and fulfilled life....

E.q.uipped for Relationships

Positive relationships and interactions have been proven to be the number 1 indicator of longevity and happiness: so even if from a...

Collective Responsibility

I used to think that shocking episodes made good stories: that if I was unharmed, they were ‘good for the book’. The man who sat on the...

40 Days of Being

At 8 years old I started burying my feelings. My dad’s disappearance into hospital and subsequence disappearance into death, left a hole...

If I had my time again

Once I confessed to a student that if I had my time again, I’d be a documentary film-maker - very sweetly (or perhaps pityingly), he said...

New ways to view and teach identity and gender

Since the introduction of mass education during the Industrial Revolution, British schools have served as factories that produce...

The Old Boys' Club

Women still need men and here are just some of the reasons why It is a truth generally acknowledged that a western woman is no longer in...

Women and Work: why women get paid less while doing more

The definite article in “the gender pay gap” infers rigid differences between the value of men and women as homogenous groups: it seems...

Understanding difference through asking questions and hearing stories

Many of the relational gender issues we face today are to do with lack of understanding, fear, stereotyping, bias and/or a sense of...