The RSA has just published a report entitled; “Beyond the Big Society – Psychological Foundations of Active Citizenship”. You can download it here: http://www.thersa.org/projects/social-brain/beyond-the-big-society. It’s a fascinating read, making a … … / continued
 
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 By Graham Wilson, on January 11th, 2012 By Graham Wilson, on December 30th, 2011…to make a big difference to your work or to your senior executive job hunt? As some of you know, I’ve written a few times in the past about New Year’s Resolutions. For example: Keeping to your resolutions Resolutions, goals, happiness and engagement This year, my inbox seems to have been full of messages … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 29th, 2011BLOG: What exactly is an entrepreneur? I’ve been doing a lot of work around the nature of entrepreneurism lately, and thought it might be a worthwhile topic to explore with a wider group of people too. Mention the term ‘entrepreneur’ to the public and you’ll get very different definitions. Probably because of programmes like … / continued By Graham Wilson, on October 16th, 2011THIS IS NOT A WHINGE. Many of us seem to be spending more and more time working, or doing work-related things. The days of the 9-to-5 are a nostalgic dream. Work-style forms of communication along with the demand for 24/7 fast response seem to have permeated our social lives too. These days, you’ll … / continued By Graham Wilson, on August 19th, 2011A long time ago, I was asked to give a talk at a leadership conference on the theme of ‘Developing Gravitas‘. To accompany most of my talks, rather than hand out copies of any slides that I use (which I don’t often do), I prepared a ‘brief guide’. This has proved to be one … / continued By Graham Wilson, on July 19th, 2011It’s interesting how a random question from someone who doesn’t know you, can make you sit up and think for a moment. I’m a facilitator, but that probably means all kinds of different things to different people and maybe it’s time to explain what I mean by it? I don’t normally find it very … / continued By Graham Wilson, on June 4th, 2011We used to think that it was only humans who used symbols to represent things thereby making it easier to communicate to their peers. This is no longer the case, as we are clear that other species do so too. The fields of infomatics and visual graphics are booming these days, in part because … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 26th, 2011Existential psychotherapy is a philosophical approach to therapy that works on the basis that conflict within a person is due to that individual’s confrontation with, what are called, the four ‘givens of existence’. These givens are: The inevitability of death Freedom and the consequence of it… responsibility That we experience the world and all … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 20th, 2011A new and quite extraordinary, indeed unprecedented, scientific study of cyclothymia has shown that it can be cured using a powerful combination of two different forms of psychotherapy. WHAT IS CYCLOTHYMIA? Most people are aware of manic depression, often refered to as bi-polar disorder, in which the sufferer experiences substantial mood swings from a … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 20th, 2011Psychodynamically, scapegoating is defined as a “process by which the mechanisms of projection or displacement are used to focus unwarranted levels of aggression, hostility, frustration, etc., on another individual or group.” Aggression, hostility and frustration are behaviours, as is the act itself of scapegoating. What underlies them is emotional energy and it is the … / continued 
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