When stressful or traumatic life events come along, we all respond in different ways. One of these may seem counter-intuitive, that we can thrive and flourish following adversity. In this article, Stephen Joseph introduces the psychology of post-traumatic growth, with Steven Shorrock.
Many ideas spring up in the world of management and organisational behaviour aimed at ‘treating…
HindSight Issue 30 on Wellbeing is now online at SKYbrary. You can download the full issue, and individual articles. HindSight magazine is free and published twice a year, reaching tens of thousands of readers in aviation and other sectors worldwide. You will find an introduction to this Issue in this post, along with links to the magazine and the individual articles.
Understanding and intervention for system performance and human wellbeing is rooted – to some extent – in four kinds of thinking. In this short series, I outline these. This post focuses on humanistic thinking.
I have ‘worked on work’ for my whole professional career. For the majority of that…
This is the third in a series reflecting on excerpts from Life and How To Survive It, by the psychotherapist Robin Skynner and the comedian John Cleese, with some reflections on work and organisations.
It was always going to happen. The wrong Best Picture winner was read out live on…
When we think about just culture, we usually think about accidents and incidents, associated ‘honest…
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s done something stupid. She finds…
Polly is a professional, a high achiever and an addict. Her drug of choice is…
Humanistic Systems 