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Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...psychological tool that helps explain why we experience various reactions when engaging with people. Interpersonal plotting tool While it is important to think about various adaptive and maladaptive behaviours and your responses to them, the real value of the interpersonal circle is felt when you are able to consider how you might response to real people in real...
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...psychology, political science and management all focus on collaboration, but interpret the term differently and from different perspectives (i.e. corporate, institutional, social, economic, political etc). For instance, in biology, living organisms collaborating means maximising the long-term opportunities for their genes. In contrast, technological studies view...
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...psychology and the shared space project?’, Journal of Beliefs & Values 40:2, pp. 215–27. Wright, K. (2022) ‘Public perception of religion and worldviews education’, Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 12(1), pp. 68–77...An education in Religion and Worldviews: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Suzanne Newcombe with important input from Carrie...
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...psychological impact on people because you’re saying it’s good to rebel. And, in fact, you can rebel for life. Rebelling for life is a really, really good thing because actually we all need life. And so you’re taking something that’s considered negative by the mainstream culture and making it a positive. CLARE FARRELL: Again, that’s why I think people try to...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...psychology has provided a rich understanding of the depth and variety of personality traits that can help us to understand and possibly manage behaviour in the workplace. One of the most popular models of personality traits that appears to be validated empirically across time, contexts and cultures is the Big Five Model, also known as the Five Factor model. The model...
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...psychology, a volunteer for the Samaritans (a UK charity that provides support for people in distress) and another American academic (a sport business negotiator) describe active listening. How does what they say apply to sport and fitness environments? Discussion The Samaritans volunteer gave the clearest summary when she talks about asking open ‘what/why?’ style...
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...psychological stressors. However, recent research has indicated that there are other factors involved in the development of the condition, including alterations in gut permeability, immune response and gut microbiome. It is thought that dysbiosis leads to inflammation and increased permeability of the gut wall. Often this is triggered by an infectious episode of...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...psychology of change, specialist tools and frameworks to design the human change process. Alongside the project manager, the team, and in consultation with the business, they also plan and advise how to integrate the project outcomes into the organisation. More specifically, a change manager focuses on who the stakeholders are, such as employees and customers; the context...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs