Author: Stephanie Hills

  • The Awakened Brain

    The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life by Lisa Miller, PhD Imagine there was a secret ingredient guaranteed to make you happier and to protect you from depression at a rate far greater than any other known factor! Lisa Miller and her colleagues have discovered that secret […]

  • Sink or swim

    The president of a big bank fell off a seagoing yacht. While his friends frantically looked around for a life preserver, one of the crew shouted out:  “Hey, can you float alone?” “Of course I can,” gasped the floundering banker, “but this is a hell of a time to talk business!”

  • Communicate Effectively

    This workshop explores the respectful communication practices revealed in Dale Carnegie’s timeless book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Participants are encouraged to share their own experiences and practice the ideas on one another. Contact us to host this workshop in your workplace!

  • Rethinking the Hard Times

    December is a good time to reflect on the past year and to re-evaluate our life’s direction. As we set intentions for the coming year, we’re acknowledging the importance of making choices and plans in line with our values. However, life rarely proceeds according to our prearranged schedule. There will be external pressures and unforeseen […]

  • Talking to Santa

    A little girl climbed onto the seat next to Santa. He smiled and asked her the usual question, ‘What would you like for Christmas?’ The little girl looked at him open mouthed and horrified for a moment.‘Didn’t you get my email?’ she gasped.

  • Happiness and Social Connection

    If you believe the ads, happiness is to be found in being rich, ‘successful’, good-looking and the envy of your friends. Ads appeal to our inborn desire for something better than the status quo; an instinct that evolutionary psychologists would say has prompted human civilisation to improve and evolve. In reality, of course, those things […]

  • The Power of We: Awakening in the Relational Field

    Audiobook by Thomas Hübl. Thomas Hübl meditated in retreat for many years, gaining deep insights, before returning to mainstream society and founding the annual Collective Trauma Summit and the Pocket Project. This audiobook is a series of gently paced teachings, spoken by Hübl himself in an unrehearsed, personally inviting manner. The focus is on using […]

  • The biggest turkey

    Just before Christmas, a lady went shopping for a turkey. She was rummaging around the frozen bird display looking for a turkey just the *right* size. She’d pick up one, weigh it in her hands and put it down, trying more than a few birds. She finally saw a stockboy coming down the aisle. Holding […]

  • What is Tolerance and How Do We Achieve it?

    The International Day for Tolerance is observed this week, although the devastating conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere show that we have a long way to go before there is much to celebrate. From our relative safety and distance, we can see international conflicts with detached clarity; naming the atrocities as unacceptable without having to […]

  • Kindness on the Bus

    Taking the bus recently, I’ve noticed a very positive bus culture. Passengers thank the driver as they leave, while drivers greet passengers and wait until they’re seated before starting to move the bus. Recently a young mother got on, with a small baby in a pram. She parked the pram in the wheelchair/pram section of […]