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 By Graham Wilson, on March 23rd, 2013There’s a quote attributed to the teachings of Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna, known generally as Atisa, one of the reformers of Buddhism from around 1000AD. It goes; “The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.” I’ve not heard it said much recently, but one of the qualities that used to be revered in leadership was being a … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 12th, 2013In an article in the Riviera Times, New jet for Prince Albert II, written by Nancy Jane Carragher, it is explained that Prince Albert II has just ‘secured’ his latest private jet, a Dassault Aviation Falcon, worth up to 50 million euros depending on his choice of interior. The Prince says the aircraft is necessary … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 10th, 2013Alcoholics in crisis provoke strong responses among the people around them. Some feel great sadness and sympathy for the individual; others are angered that they could have allowed themselves to get into this condition; and still more are fearful, as the behaviour of someone they know has become unpredictable and often seemingly uncontrollable. When that … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 7th, 2012One of a generation of motivational speakers, Zig Ziglar, died last week at the age of 86. When I began to perform myself in the late 1980s, it was often tapes by Ziglar that I would listen to as I drove from ‘gig’ to ‘gig’ and which influenced my own style enormously. Born in 1926, … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 23rd, 2012“I never know quite how to introduce myself…” By Graham Wilson, on August 20th, 2012This month, I’m involved in helping run a summer school in Oxford, the Adaptation Academy, for senior staff involved in climate adaptation projects. My strand embraces the human dimension – self-development, leadership, politics, and communication. Following a leadership tour of the City of Oxford, one of the participants posted this question in the Academy’s collaboration … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 15th, 2012In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; “And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition”. When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon. If it’s a negative feeling then we are somehow anticipating that our personal … / 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 easy … / 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 that … / 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 period … / continued |
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