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Foresight Five

22 October 2008

Bit of press coverage in the UK today about the publication of Foresight’s Mental Capital and Wellbeing Report. As the Times and the Guardian explain, some 400 scientists have identified the following five activities that we should do every day to be mentally healthy: Connect Developing relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours will enrich […]

Exercise cures everything!

20 October 2008

Spark just arrived through my letterbox and I am going to talk about it even before I have read it. We have had over 500 responses so far to the Mindapples Test. *THANK YOU*, and one or two people mentioned exercise. This book I hope will explain all. John Ratey is a clinical associate professor […]

Answers from the margin…

18 October 2008

Wow, there’s a very interesting (and very long) comment stream going on over at Marginal Revolution. Take a look. [Updated:] Also just found this too.

Thinking about vegetables

17 October 2008

Richard Gerver has kindly shared his five-a-day. Richard is the former Head of Grange primary school, described as one the most creative schools in the world. Richard in now BIG in creativity in education …… 1. I am a fatalist…what will be will be, stress has never changed the course of history! 2. Running, God […]

Sir Ken’s New Book

Sir Ken Robinson’s new book, The Element, will be out in February 09. Details have just been released by the London Business Forum for the launch of the book in London, which will be on the 3 February at the IMAX. To book click here. Richard Gerver, who had the good fortune to read The […]

Mark Johnson on emotional education

15 October 2008

In today’s Guardian Mark Johnson has written an article entitled Forget Sats: lesson one is a basic emotional education. It is very interesting to read Mark’s thoughts on the subject, as he school experience was difficult. He is author of Wasted, which describes his experiences growing up with violence, alcohol and drugs, often crime. Mark’s comment in […]

It’s a mad world

14 October 2008

Thanks to Simeon Brody of communitycare.co.uk for sharing his five-a-day: For what it’s worth, here are my five a day – Have a project or try to learn something new – Regular exercise – Don’t take things too seriously – Try to let worries go – Try to be sociable Not that I do them […]

Headroom

The BBC have launched a new campaign called Headroom which aims to promote wellbeing widely. There are programmes, questionnaires, information of particular difficulties such as OCD and AHDH and depression. Well worth a look. Well done BBC. “Life is full of ups and downs. So the BBC has created Headroom, a campaign to encourage you […]

Apple Camp

8 October 2008

Lots of activity around the Mindapples project at the moment, very exciting times. I pitched the project at the first Social Innovation Camp Meetup last week, and found a whole bunch of people who would be interested in helping us develop a better website and various other useful services. So, later this month or early […]

Dr Liz Miller’s health tips

6 October 2008

I was honoured to receive a lovely e-mail from Dr Liz Miller recently about the Mindapples project. Dr Liz was voted Mind Champion of the Year in June and featured in Stephen Fry’s 2007 documentary series the Secret Life of the Manic Depressive. She writes wonderfully about self-management of mental wellbeing, and also practises what […]