When I was at high school, way back in 1977, I skipped gym class one day and put up a poster on the Senior School notice board. It was a...

I was chatting with my mother the other day about the origins of the name of the town where she lives ‘Bearsden’. Bearsden is an affluent...

I was listening, a couple of days ago, to Lou Reed signing “Perfect Day”; personally, I think it’s a great song. “Oh, it’s such a perfect...

It’s been a while since we last posted anything on the blog. I’ve spent most of the last year doing a weekly mindfulness video-cast on...

My wife asked me to host her mindfulness group last week, as she was away on a course in Edinburgh. I was pleased to do so, and I was...

Check out our latest video, where we visit the labyrinth at Burn House, Angus. In this short video we discuss some of the history and...

​​During the summer Steve and Graham took a road trip around the west coast of Scotland; travelling in Graham’s campervan and stopping...

We all experience having thoughts and the feelings or ‘emotions’ that these thoughts produce in our bodies. Sometimes they are pleasant...

As those of you who follow the Solution Focused Living Facebook page will know, we’ve just come back from a Mindfulness Road Trip around...

I posted something on Facebook a couple of weeks ago about the Australian Nurse Kirsty Boden who went to help people injured during the...

The term ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ refers to the human condition of keeping up with our neighbours through conspicuous consumption or...

Many years ago, when my son was at primary school, we were sitting round the table after dinner, and he was telling the rest of the...

Book Now Time & Location 01 June 2019, 10:00 – 15:00 Giffordtown Village Hall, Giffordtown, Cupar KY15 7UP, UK About the class If you are...

As a retired academic, I know that for many students this can be one of the most stressful times of the academic year; desperately trying...

The question of ‘how can mental health workers incorporate the principles of recovery based care into everyday practice?’ is one that has...

The pace of life feels like it is accelerating at a phenomenal rate with seemingly endless demands on our time. People complaining of...

Most people have heard about the placebo effect whereby a person feels a beneficial reduction in illness symptoms when given a fake drug...

I was writing the other day about the relationship between problems and solutions, and it set me off thinking more about problems...

We are all faced with choices from the moment we wake. These can be simple like what will we have for breakfast to highly complex...

One of the most amazing moments in my life was when I found out that a solution is not simply the absence of a problem. Prior to that I...