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Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...simple structure to keep the coaching process focused, structured and time effective...What skills and qualities are required to be a successful coach? Although coaching can seem like a specialism, requiring professional qualifications, it is within the reach of most people to grow their own ability towards developing others via coaching. The role of a coach is to...
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Article 10 mins
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...simple as being left- or right-handed. Many aspects of being a man, or being a woman, are influenced by social expectations, and children learn and internalise these as they grow up. Some people feel quite comfortable in their expected gender roles, while others feel comfortable in some aspects of their gender, but uncomfortable in others. Exactly what those gender roles...
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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...simple strategies to work on a happy, healthy brain. [High Angular Resolution Diffusion Image of human brain] Visualising the brain Use your hand to make a brain so you can visualise it. Place your thumb in the middle of your palm as shown in the left-hand side of the figure below. Where your thumb is is where the limbic region is, which is made up of the amygdala and the...
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Article 5 mins
Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...codes honed in earlier decades. This led some to lament her supposed co-option by conservatism but the shift now looks more shrewd: a fusion of novelty and tradition that fashioned her into the unlikeliest of hybrids, a pop art Gracie Fields. Cover star Singing was always a part of family life, and the infant Cilla was encouraged to perform for doting relatives. In her...
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...codes, Bowie's strangeness has been a powerful artistic emblem. He has underlined how difference can be a haunting experience but also one of exuberance and liberation. Despite his anguish, he also points to the possibility of belonging, for Ziggy reassuringly cries out in the song Rock and Roll Suicide:‘Oh no love you're not alone… Oh no love you're not alone… no...
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Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...code you're on? And how can you check it's the right one? What does the government do with the tax revenue raised? Well, a large proportion of government spending is in a range of state benefits, so in this session you'll also look at the benefits you may be entitled to once you finish your education. So enjoy. The knowledge gained this session will help you right now,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...simple observation strategy (listed below as item 3) is further supported by an additional four aspects of medical and political infrastructure: political commitment with increased and sustained financing case detection through quality-assured bacteriology standardised treatment with supervision and patient support an effective drug supply and management system monitoring...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...simple exercises. As well as keeping my metabolic rate up, if I’ve been concentrating very hard, I can move around, do the exercises, it just takes three minutes, and it refreshes me. I generally stop around five to cook supper, and then if I’m not up against a deadline, I’ll just do other stuff in the evening. If I’m up against a deadline, I’ll get back to work...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs