Author: Stephanie Hills

  • 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 […]

  • Strange and Stranger: Human Responses to the Unfamiliar

    This workshop was designed for a workplace that was experiencing conflicts within a team. It develops realisations regarding how we unconsciously dehumanise other people when we don’t understand them. A set of 7 practical tips are given to de-escalate conflict and promote better relationships. Contact us to host this workshop in your workplace.

  • 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 […]

  • Golfing priorities

                A husband and wife are on the 9th green when suddenly she collapses from a heart attack. “Help me dear!” she whimpers to her husband.             The husband calls 911 on his cell phone, talks for a few minutes, picks up his putter, and lines up his putt. His wife raises her head off […]

  • The Benefits of Not Complaining

    The average day provides a myriad of blessings to be grateful for, along with multiple niggles and challenges – all of which are opportunities to complain, if that is our focus. People who constantly complain are hard to be around and don’t attract warmth from others. The sad thing is that their focus on the […]

  • Learned Optimism workshop

    Optimism is good for your health and protects you from depression. Martin Seligman discovered that optimism involves a particular way of thinking that can be learned. This workshop includes practical exercises to help consolidate optimistic thinking patterns. Contact us to order the workshop for your workplace.

  • Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife

    Proof of Heaven; A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife by Dr Eben Alexander Near-death experiences are fascinating to read about, and this one especially so. What makes Eben Alexander’s experience so unique are 4 things: 1) He was a neurosurgeon who, prior to his experience, “knew” that NDEs were impossible; 2) His sudden onset of […]