A new feature added to our website is the "People who have changed their destination" page, featuring "Interviews With...." where I will be interviewing people who, despite deprived or difficult beginnings, have changed their direction in life and achieved their potential when it may have been … [Read more...]
Change or inspiration and what exactly is a PIE chart?
I was in conversation today with a colleague from another organisation and we were bantering about the differences in our approach to "change": I am of the "change is capable of happening in an instant" school and he was is of the "ah but sustainable change takes a long time". Luckily, … [Read more...]
Sean Foley interview: Helping children with Aspergers Syndrome achieve their potential
I was delighted this week to get the opportunity to interview Sean Foley who was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at aged 13. Now 22, Sean is commissioned to give workshops about his experiences and how parents and professionals can best help their children and pupils to achieve better … [Read more...]
“I’m not trying to make him happy – I’m trying to cure his depression”
I watched again my favourite Frasier episode on Channel 4 where the beautifully pompous but vulnerable Pyschiatrist, Frasier, played by the wonderful Kelsey Grammer, offers Kenny, the lonely and depressed Station Manager some therapy sessions. Frasier analyses Kenny's childhood, his relationship … [Read more...]
Lego sales increase
Heartening news: "Lego sales are increasing and the manufacturer is now focusing on getting girls hooked". Twelve words to inspire a happy sigh...... Eileen Murphy www.brief-therapy-uk.com … [Read more...]
Asperger Syndrome – follow the exception
Asperger Syndrome (AS) is sometimes called 'mild autism' but there is nothing mild about being a teenager who finds it nigh on impossible to get things right with his peergroup. People with AS are at their most vulnerable at a time when the people they go to school with are at their least sensitive. … [Read more...]
It’s What’s Right With You That Will Fix What’s Wrong With You
I revisited this article that I wrote in 2008 and only had to take a few words out. If there are any Mental Health Unit staff out there who read this and think "what nonsense, she is out of date on this"! - please contact me and I will gladly edit each and every time. Eileen It's what's right … [Read more...]
And Jeannette and Beatrice at the Eat & Drink Company….
Back on the motorway last week which means living in a world of Service Station pitstops once more. Following my "Salute to Harry" post, I thought that would be the end of my hailing of Customer Service Heroes but then up popped Jeanette and Beatrice of the Eat & Drink Company at Birmingham … [Read more...]
A salute to Harry, Le Petit Four Cafe
Whether I am working with local authorities or the commercial world, I never forget that regardless of the official Mission Statement or whatever the guidelines recommend or whatever is laid down as good practice - it all stands or falls on people. No matter how committed a local authority is to … [Read more...]
If all else fails….tickle the foot
I thought I was hearing things this morning, I was multi-tasking so I first of all thought that the radio had somehow combined with a tape of audio book I was listening to but this is what I heard: "A 69 year old woman, pronounced dead by doctors and given the last rites, was tickled by a male nurse … [Read more...]
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