Many people attending training courses over the years are healers. They use different modalities, but a common one is Reiki. In case you haven’t heard of it, Reiki is an energy healing modality. It requires that practitioners hold intention and openness and allow...

Late last night NASA’s Artemis II rocket set off on the first manned lunar flight since the days of the Apollo programme in 1972. Planned to last for 10 days, it will include a trip all the way around the Moon. Artemis I was an unmanned flight in December 2022, aimed...

Coaching is a solution focused intervention. It is about moving from where you are to where you want to be. The steps include, figuring out where you already are, where do you want to go, and how are you going to get from one to the other. A key aspect of this is to...

The founding member of the Board of Peace and recipient of the inaugural FIFA peace prize has just launched a bombing campaign against an independent sovereign nation. To be fair, it’s a sovereign nation not renowned as a bastion of peace or freedom. The Iranian...

The good news about personal development is that you are never done, and the bad news about personal development is that you are never done. Personal development is a life-long undertaking. Fundamentally it is the art of becoming you, the best version of you that you...

Are you enjoying the start of 2026? Just to name a few notable events so far, the USA is threatening to take Greenland from fellow NATO allies, by force if necessary. The Venezuelan President, Nicholas Maduro was extracted from his home in a hugely successful military...

Scottish inventor John Logi Barid gave the first demonstration of television 100 years ago this month. He built on the work of others. Russian scientist Constantin Perskyi presented a paper on television at the International World Fair in Paris in 1900, and he is...

The wheel of time turns once more and we find ourselves in another New Year, full of possibilities and, of course, New Year’s resolutions. Though we make these commitments to change and to create new habits, very often we find it hard to see it all the way through. So...

Writing began in Sumer, south-central Iraq, in about 3,400 BCE, and not long afterwards in Egypt. The very first named author in history was Enheduanna, she was the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna in the Sumerian city of Ur, in around 2,200 BCE. Despite this...

It is 30 years since the first Toy Story film was released. It was an immediate hit with audiences, scoring 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, and grossing $350 million worldwide. It won one Oscar and was nominated for 3 more. More than that, it was the first computer animated...