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MY BLOGS
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Social Mindfulness
http://socialmindfulness.wordpress.com/
Social mindfulness draws together projects which explore the social potentials of mindfulness. The kinds of issues and topics explored on the social mindfulness blog include:
The potential of existing mindfulness practices for addressing social issues, such as conflict, sustainability, and discrimination.
The development of mindfulness practices which are explicitly social and/or collective (e.g. with the aim of improving empathy, or conducted in conversations or groups).
Explorations of the possibility of mindful relationships.
Dialogues between mindfulness and social theory, social science and social psychology.
Mindfulness therapies which are located more explicitly within sociocultural understandings of human experience.
The application of mindfulness to social settings, such as healthcare, education, and social work. -
Northern Existential Group
http://northernexistentialgroup.wordpress.com/
Northern UK group on existential philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy
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BiUK
http://bisexualresearch.wordpress.com/
The UK national organisation for bisexual research and activism
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Rewriting the Rules
http://rewritingtherules.wordpress.com/
A blog on love, sex and relationships covering issues such as self-help, break-up, communication, conflict, marriage, LGBTQ, monogamy, non-monogamy, break-up, gender, sexuality, commitment, romance, depression, self-care, society, mindfulness, existentialism, philosophy, psychology, and counselling/therapy.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 326 )
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Oliver Burkeman and the Future of Self-help
Last week I gave a talk on self-help books to literature students at UEA and, thanks to the marvellous B. J. Epstein, I had the thrill of having my own self-hel... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Media Reporting of Bisexuality
Meg has written about media reporting of bisexuality over on Rewriting the Rules. This weekend I was contacted by a programme-maker with the following request... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2013 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Media Reporting of Sexuality: The Importance of Framing the Debate
This weekend I was contacted by a programme-maker with the following request regarding a series on sexuality. They said that they were putting together... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Valentine’s Day Video and Discussion
This year the Open University helped me to make a video about my thoughts on Valentine’s Day (a version of this blog post which I did last year). Read more
Posted on 13 February 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Rewriting the Rules of Valentine’s Day
There’s an interview with me about Valentine’s Day over on The Sorority. What do you think about Valentines Day? I think that the idea of having a day to... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Disturbing Findings on Bisexuality and Domestic Abuse
Bisexual Women Almost Twice As Likely To Be Abused As Straight Women They are also three times as likely to be raped, according to the first-ever nationwide... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2013 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
What Can We All Learn About Sex from The Sessions?
I urge you to go and see the movie, The Sessions, which is currently out in cinemas. Not only is this a quietly beautiful and uplifting film about life and love... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Year Resolutions
New Year is a time when we often consider resolving to do things differently in the year to come. However, for many reasons, making New Year resolutions often... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Feminism and (non)monogamy
I did a podcast interview last week for Feminist Current about whether monogamy was compatible with feminism. The podcast deals with some of the historical... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Sex Critical Post
There’s a great post over on Sex Critical about academics writing outside academia which includes a review of Rewriting the Rules and of Unmastered by... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Bifuriosity in the Huffington Post
There’s a great article today by Matt Stanley and Lauren Connors in the Huffington Post responding to a recent belittling piece they published about bisexuality... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2012 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Bisexual Sports Star Tops Independent Pink List!
It was great to see Nicola Adams leap right into the number one spot of the Independent on Sunday‘s annual Pink List. A fantastic occasion for bi visibility! Read more
Posted on 29 November 2012 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
New Research Guidelines for Arts & Humanities
Thanks to Caroline Walters and Kaye McLelland for adapting the bisexuality research guidelines to produce a list specifically aimed towards scholars in the... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2012 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness?
Stephen Stanley was recently asked to provide an introduction to a screening of the documentary ‘Happy‘ (trailer below). Here’s what he had to say… Apparently... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, PHILOSOPHY -
5 Steps to Mindfulness
Here’s a link to a great introductory post by Thich Nhat Hanh about 5 steps towards being mindful. 1. Mindful breathing 2. Concentration 3. Awareness of the bod... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, PHILOSOPHY -
Intuitive Inquiry Research Method
Joanna Blake writes on Intuitive Inquiry: Intuitive inquiry was introduced by Rosemarie Anderson (1998) to study transformative experiences. Read more
Posted on 01 May 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, PHILOSOPHY -
Owning Emotions Versus Identifying with Emotions
I just got asked a really interesting question over email about the mindful approach to emotions. I thought I’d share my answer here. Read more
Posted on 27 April 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, PHILOSOPHY -
Divided Brains and Mindfulness?
In the most recent RSA animate lecture, on the divided brain, psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist challenges popular ideas about left and right brains whic... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, PHILOSOPHY -
Existential Youtube
For light relief. A wonderful youtube video about feline existence: And one about the existence of a croissant: And existential Star Read more
Posted on 17 April 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Huckabees at the Northern Existential Group
On 22nd March 2012 the Northern Existential Group discussed the existential film ‘I ♥ Huckabees’. IMDB details Whilst we agreed that the film was perhaps a... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY