The re-birth of Stoicism
We’re coming to the end of Stoic Week. People all over the world have been practicing Stoic exercises and reflecting on Stoic ideas this week, thanks to this wonderful initiative, launched by a young...
View Article‘Show me the compassionate atheist communities’
Do you know any good poo and wee stories? This is the question that confronts me as I arrive at Windsor Hill Wood, an open-door community run by the writer Tobias Jones and his wife Francesca, in...
View ArticleOnce more, with feeling: the latest attempt to teach flourishing in schools
This week I’d like to examine the latest attempt to teach young people how to flourish in schools, via a new randomised controlled trial of a new Personal and Social Health Education curriculum, which...
View ArticleA brief history of IAPT: the mass provision of CBT on the NHS
I’ve a long article in Aeon magazine this week, looking at Improving Access for Psychological Therapy (IAPT), which is the first ever provision of talking therapy on a mass scale by a government....
View ArticleEverybody’s mental
It’s been a tough week for the UK – mental illness went up 164%. Previously, mental health charities assured us that one in four people have been diagnosed with a mental illness in their life. But...
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