Don’t take anything personally | Don’t make assumptionsSome may recognise this month’s topic from Don Miguel Ruiz’s book ‘The four agreements’, a New York Times bestseller for more than a decade. The concepts and ideas from this book were inspired by ancient Toltec...

Thinking About Mental HealthThis year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week (UK)  is Nature. Below, Conrad is sharing thoughts on Mental Health as well as tips on how to develop awareness. We urge you to notice nature and to make a habit of connecting to nature...

Stress and burnout during the current global situation – how to safeguard yourself.As the pandemic is creating increasing demands on us and the potential of a 3rd wave of infection looms, the risk of experiencing burnout may be greater than we would like it to be. If...

From Resilience to Antifragility – Teaching birds how to flyThis month the topic is something that is mentioned frequently enough to be in everyone’s vocabulary. Resilience is an especially apt discussion point given all the challenges and uncertainty we have faced...

Adjust | Thrive #TheOneYouFeedThere’s a wonderful story about an old Cherokee Indian teaching his grandson about life. He explains that there are two wolves inside us which are always at battle. Here is how the story goes: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to...

Fairness  |  A fair ProcessIn previous newsletters, we discussed the principles of reliability, validity, and standardisation.  To recap, reliability is the extent to which an assessment tool is free from error, while validity is the extent to which a tool measures...

TOGETHER WE CAN EXPERIENCE GRACE IN THE SMALLEST MOMENTS. In the movie Harriet is a retired businesswoman who tries to control everything around her. When she decides to write her own obituary, a young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth resulting in...

adjust thrive  |  personal growthThis month’s newsletter marks the end of our series exploring Above and Below the Line behaviour. We started with accountability,and followed with its opposite, victim mentality.   WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?Accountability allows you...

Standardisation  |  How to Interpret a standard processPsychometry is the science of psychological assessment and forms the basis of psychological measurement. Within psychometry there are four fundamental principles which determine the quality of an assessment tool....