Facing the future with John Sanei by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Dasho Tshering Tobgay is the former Prime Minister of Bhutan, the Himalayan country once isolated from the rest of the world, but which in recent decades has been pursuing the idea of measuring ‘gross national happiness’. This idea goes beyond the traditional pursuit of economic growth and takes into account the country’s environment and culture. D…

Hear some of the inspiring people who've spoken to Head Talks:Lisane Basquiat, life strategistJohn Sanei, author, speaker, strategistKeri-Anne Payne, Olympic swimmerDasho Tshering Tobgay, former Prime Minister of BhutanMark & Maddy Austin, journalist and daughter recovered from eating disorderSir Ian Cheshire, senior businessmanKristin Neff, psycho…

Arnaud Collery: bringing happiness to work by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Lisane Basquiat, the founder of Shaping Freedom, grew up in an immigrant Haitian family in Brooklyn. She and her siblings — including the artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat — were expected to succeed in conventional ways. Her brother took his own creative path. Lisane, who is an entrepreneur and a life strategist, followed a conventional corporate route …

While working in stressful jobs, Anastasia Dedyukhina realised that smartphones, and the pressure to be ‘always on’, were doing her harm. She tried an experiment: giving up her smartphone altogether and going back to a more offline way of life. The experience inspired her to found Consciously Digital, a network of coaches who help others to find a …

Pandit Dasa spent fifteen years living as a monk – not in a remote retreat but in the heart of New York City. When he emerged from his monastic life, he became a speaker instead, inspiring others to live more mindfully. He gives us some tips on how to re-emerge into the busy world, including ‘closing the apps’ in our minds to quieten busy thoughts,…

Blue Therapy With Keri - Anne Payne by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Asif Sadiq has had a long career working in business to make companies more diverse and inclusive. After a year of remote working, he believes that companies which have embraced change are more ready to adapt to new challenges. Asif says he’s learnt more about colleagues’ lives during the past year, and thinks this process of ‘bringing your authent…

No news is good news with Rolf Dobelli by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Reconnecting to a purposeful life with Jessica Huie by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Professor Ian Robertson is a psychologist and neuroscientist with an interest in confidence -- what makes some of us have self-belief and others not? And is this innate or a skill that can be learned? Professor Robertson says we can learn to acquire a set of mental habits that can help us to make our goals more reachable and to develop our confiden…

Sophie Bostock on How to have a good night's sleep by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science at the LSE and the author of two bestselling books on happiness -- Happy Ever After and Happiness By Design. He tells us about the importance of finding a balance between pleasure and purpose in life in order to achieve that happiness, how we can find new ways of finding shared joy in the absence of ou…

Living without masks with Jamie Catto by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Life coach Linda Mbagwu had a difficult start in her own childhood: at eight, she was working to boost the family’s income. Later, the pressure that she put on herself to succeed, as well as a failed relationship, led to anxiety and depression. Linda learned techniques to keep herself grounded and reframe her thinking, including meditation. As a co…

Barry McDonagh started experiencing panic attacks as a student, until one day he dared the panic to do its worst, and found that he came through it. Barry has now developed a method that he calls DARE, based on his own experiences. He describes the method as breaking ‘the fear of fear’ and ‘riding the wave’ of panic and anxiety disorders.…

Harriet Waley-Cohen has come through many difficult times that life has thrown at her -- recovery from addictions, the breakup of her marriage, the pain after being hurt in a car accident and treatment for cancer. She now builds on her experiences and the lessons she has learned to help other women to flourish. What are Harriet’s tips for coping in…

Looking for silver linings with Susanna Newsonen by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Leading businessman Sir Ian Cheshire says the pandemic has completely changed the background to talking about mental health at work. He became interested in the issues because of family experiences and has since worked with charities to promote good practices in the office. The fact that so many of us are working from home poses new challenges, he …

How to be authentically charming by Dr Raj Persaud by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

For many young people, this year’s lockdown has brought mental health difficulties to the fore. Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Nihara Krause says that stress, anxiety and depression may result from the crisis, but she suggests ways to help young people build resilience and learn strategies to cope as they get back to their usual routines of sc…

The electricity of the mind by Dr Rahul Jandial by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Jada Sezer says the lockdown has meant a rollercoaster of emotions to her, a process of grieving for our past life and its routines. The model and campaigner said: "Every week is different. I might start the week happy and end the week collapsed on the sofa. There's a heaviness in the world. Some days I wake up and I can't think through this fog. B…

Scarlett Curtis: Learning to trust my brain again by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Finding the rational space by Jess Phillips MP by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Psychotherapist Susie Orbach has long studied our relationships with food and eating. ‘Life is full of challenges,’ she says, ‘the question is how to make them interesting.’ Susie is concerned about how parents’ preoccupations with bodies, food and fitness are transmitted to their children, sometimes using food as a substitute for genuine emotion. …

Richard Layard is an Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics where he is also Director of the Wellbeing Programme, as well as a member of the House of Lords and the co-founder of Action for Happiness. His books include Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, and Thrive. Lord Layard began his career as an economist and was one of the fir…

An Inheritance of Trauma by Josh Zitser by Head TalksHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Terrence overcame huge adversity in childhood and now teaches others to look forward to improve their lives step by step, as he did. He came to mindfulness, hypnotherapy and NLP after being a physical fitness instructor when he realised how much his clients’ state of mind affected their bodies. He uses a combination of techniques to reprogram the m…

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Josh Dickson is a therapist who works with EMDR -- eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing -- therapy to help clients overcome past traumas. He says he has both experienced and witnessed its effects. Josh tells us the theories about why stimulating the brain helps it to file away old, painful memories and explains how he uses it in practice. …

Lucid dreaming is a state where you’re asleep, but aware that you’re dreaming. Charlie Morley says that almost anyone can learn how to do it. He’s a teacher of lucid dreaming and a student of Buddhism. Charlie says that not only is lucid dreaming fun -- like a virtual reality simulation -- but it has therapeutic benefits. Scientists have studied it…

Lucy O’DonnellCancer Wellness AdvisorWhen Lucy was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in November 2011, she spent most of the next eighteen months in radical cancer treatment. Through her continuing treatment and experience, Lucy channels her energies into helping other people in and outside the cancer world. She is a Cancer Counsellor…

Katie Phillips, self love coach and Head Talks ambassador, wants to prove that menopause can be a very positive experience! She says most women suffer through their menopause because it has been the 'white elephant in the room' for too long. Katie is joined by women’s integrative health and wellbeing coach, Tanith Lee, and Sandra Peat, co-founder o…

Maneesh JunejaDigital Health FuturistManeesh Juneja wants to see a world where everyone has the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their health. He says new ways of thinking are needed to reach that goal. We are gathering more and more data from the real world about our health and our lifestyles -- whether that’s from i…

Healing And Letting Go - A Meditation Gude by Meg JamesA guided meditation to help you to surrender and release painful emotionsHead Talks tarafından oluşturuldu

Teenage Eating DisorderWhen, at ten years old, homeschooled Ruth was sent off to school, she felt like an outcast. Discovering, during a health check, that she weighed twice as much as a friend, she rapidly started losing weight. 'Once you start, it's very difficult to stop for an eating-disorder mind.' Anorexia reportedly has the highest mortality…

Jo MarchantScience JournalistScience journalist Jo Marchant set out in her book Cure: a journey into the science of mind over body, to find out more about the evidence for how our minds can influence our bodies. She tells us about some of the fascinating experiments that researchers are conducting into phenomena such as the placebo effect. How can …

Jeremy ThomasEducational Mental Health SpeakerJeremy Thomas is a best-selling author, former record company owner, but most of all an all-round survivor. Having battled manic depression, addiction, and bipolar disorder, this funny and poignant mental health educator is now lecturing in schools, teaching teenagers 'how to stay sane in an insane worl…

Rachel KellyWriter, Journalist & Mental Health CampaignerRachel Kelly had come to terms with the idea that it was 'fine to die'. Her anxiety was just too overwhelming. With the help of medication and therapy, Rachel, then a prominent journalist at the Times newspaper, slowly clawed her way back. In this moving account she talks about going from not…

Mental Health Campaigner Ten years ago, Jonny Benjamin was at a low point. He was talked out of a suicide attempt on Waterloo Bridge. His quest to find the man who rescued him, Neil Laybourn, became famous. Jonny’s now written a book about his story, his illness and his progress towards recovery. Jonny talks to us about how far he has come on his j…

News Presenter & Daughter When Maddy Austin began to suffer from anorexia as a teenager, her father Mark didn’t know at first how to react. Mealtimes became a battle zone and the stress on the whole family was very difficult. It wasn’t until Maddy was able to get appropriate treatment that she began to recover. Mark says that until he realised his …

Paul GilbertFounder of Compassion Focused TherapyPaul Gilbert is a pioneer of compassion-focused therapy. He’s a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Derby. In his work, he has drawn on insights from Buddhist tradition as well as evolutionary psychology. His compassion training teaches people to quieten critical or hostile inner vo…

Johann HariThe author and journalist Johann Hari was first diagnosed with depression as a teenager. In his new book, Lost Connections, he investigates broader approaches to mental health that go beyond medication. He argues that creating more meaningful connections with society and with nature, and having more control over our work and our lives, c…

After a successful career as a professor of art and design, Dr Louise Mazanti had a spiritual awakening that took her in a new direction. She wanted to learn more about her body, sexuality and spirituality. She now works alongside her husband, Mike Lousada, as a therapist. She sees sex as an energy, a kind of life force that flows through our bodie…

*CONTAINS EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT*Mike LousadaMike Lousada is a Psychosexual Somatic practitioner who works alongside his wife, therapist Dr Louise Mazanti. In this interview, he looks at society’s views of sexuality through history. Mike argues that we should move away from a view of sex that’s about control and fear towards one where the emphasis…

Dr. Kristin Neff The Self-Compassion PioneerHaving compassion for oneself is really no different than having compassion for others, says Dr. Kristin Neff. Yet we turn out not to be very good at the first. Neff, a leading expert on self-compassion, is an associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin. She is a professor, bestselling author…

Nadya KhokharCognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT)Unhelpful thoughts; we’ve all got them. Over the past decade, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has become the go-to way to tackle our muddled thinking. 'We are helping clients to become their own therapists,' explains Nadya Khokhar. UK-based Khokhar participates in a government-run scheme improvin…

Claudia HammondBBC Radio 4 Presenter of 'All in the Mind'If the world only knew how much good research is out there and put it into practice, Claudia Hammond would be much happier. The award-winning broadcaster and psychology lecturer has been dubbed the 'most important source of psychological ideas in the UK media' and has made it her mission to e…