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Milton Keynes Monthly Guided Meditation Class

Milton Keynes Monthly Guided Meditation Class

NEXT CLASS Saturday 12th August 10am-11am Loughton, Milton Keynes. Exact address provided on booking. To book please click here. (Link opens in Meetup.com) Have you ever tried to meditate? Did you find it hard? Or are you curious about meditation but not sure where to start? Guided meditation is a great way to start meditating [...]

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book Club – How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book Club – How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Post event update: We had an enjoyable debate about this book. Are the principles still useful to follow? We thought they were still very much taught to us in management training and followed in workplaces, so they have definitely withstood the test of time. Once we'd got past the 1930s language and culture we thought [...]

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book Club

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book Club

Post-event update Hmm...we were not enamoured with this book...ironically we found it a little boring! The audible version didn't seem to work as well as the book version, so I'm glad I read the paperback for once! Sandi focussed a lot on the negative effects of boredom. For example, in the workplace boredom leads to [...]

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book Club

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book Club

Post-event update Habits are an important part of life - some would say they make up life itself. It was Aristotle that said: "we are what we repeatedly do...excellence then, is not an act, but a habit" Reading Gretchen's book on mastering our habits definitely reinforced this to me.  Thinking about how the small steps [...]

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book club

Milton Keynes Personal and Professional Development Book club

free  25th April 2017 7pm-9pm at The Fountain Harvester, London Road, Milton Keynes To discuss: A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax To join, click here (link opens in Meetup.com) Ruby Wax is a comedian, actress, producer, writer, mental health campaigner - and a less well known fact, someone with a Masters in [...]

Tips on sleeping well

Tips on sleeping well

Getting a good quality night's sleep is integral to keeping stress and anxiety at bay. Your body repairs itself during sleep. Your memory improves. Your mind processes situations and sorts them out, creating space for new ideas and your stress hormones go down as your mind and body slow. So, just for a week, try [...]

Personal and Professional Development Book club

Personal and Professional Development Book club

free 21st March 2017 7pm-9pm at The Fountain Harvester, London Road, Milton Keynes To discuss: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz This small book has been creating a storm in the self-development world and we're curious to see what it's about! Don't worry if you don't manage to finish the book by the time [...]

Personal and Professional Development Book club

Personal and Professional Development Book club

*Update* We had a wonderful discussion on Words that Changed Minds. The verdict was that it was definitely a book which we had to concentrate on reading, but with some really useful information in it. It made us think differently about ourselves and our interactions with others. I'm not sure we'll remember the exact concepts [...]