The new age of ‘victimhood’ mentality is here which is fast becoming a lifestyle choice amongst children and young people in the Western and more affluent societies. It has grown a pace over the past few decades and is often borne on the spoiling of children by stressed, busy and hard strapped parents who…
Category: Society
The Many Faces of CHANGE
As I’ve been sitting watching history unfold whilst Donald Trump is elected the next President of the United States my absolute knowing of the need for Conscious Leadership in the World is never more urgent. Unfolding too are ‘The Many Faces of Change’ and the great need to really look behind the term, concept and…
Brexit: Conscious Reflections
With many across Britain, Europe and the World still reeling from the UK Brexit vote to LEAVE the EU. My mind is focused on where things can go from here?. This decision presents a major challenge that calls for the very best in leadership which, as this tattered garment starts to unravel, looks more and…
A Conscious View: Irish Politics where to from here?
In exploring how we ‘Create Conscious Societies’ we must also consider how we do Conscious Politics, because the two go hand in hand. In doing so we are brought into a new focus of how we respect and value people. Just as in how we create, live in and share our communities with each other,…
1916 Realising the Dream and Vision
As the light lessened in the sky and the dusk was slowly replaced with the coming of nightfall on the most momentous of days. After watching the commemorations one hundred years after the 1916 Easter Sunday Rising in Ireland, my mind and heart and soul felt a mixture of great pride and great sadness. Pride…
Conscious Change and the Question of Irish Politics
Reflecting on the recent elections here in Ireland and the resulting fragmented results. I have been thinking about the way we in Irish society now define politics and the common characteristics that we give politicans. In the main when we think of politics and ‘politicians’ we equate it and them with croynism, dishonesty and self…
‘No Room At The Inn’ Insights of the First ‘Christmas Story…’
With ‘no room at the inn’, with no place to lay their heads, and at the mercy of the elements and the hope of some kindness from strangers. As the first Christmas Story is told and unfolds, Mary and Joseph took refuge in a stable, their only source of heat to take shelter in the…
OUR ‘UNREPEATABLE UNIQUENESS’
Over many years in my talks, seminars and workshops in schools, colleges, communities, businesses,organisations, and in one to one consultations, a key theme has been about consciously embracing and celebrating our ‘unrepeatable uniqueness.’ Why has this been such an important area to share insights with others? It is, because both in my own life and…
