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A protective education for students’ mental health
Universities can present to students a significant, sometimes bamboozling, challenge that may become an unenjoyable difficulty, if they are not prepared. It’s the reason why I wrote my book, Playing the University Game: to help them avoid university-based negativity hurting them.
Health, caring and IFS – science versus spirituality? - PARTS & SELF
IFS is a healing modality. But healing, these days, in a medicalised world of pharmaceuticals, medical insurance, mal-practice lawsuits and “standards” is often conflated with the assurances for argument and “knowing” of the verifiability of science. This is alternative to, or instead of, being connected to spirituality, or self-hood, or community-based holistic strategies for healing.
Everyday people and “sporty Parts”- IFS impacting leisure sports practice
At school I was never “good” at sports. The whole endeavour was fraught with emotional challenges. Would I get picked for the team and at which point? That was the question, on the day sports lessons were timetabled, fresh in my mind as I got ready for school in the morning. It was not nothing as a question for a young girl. Your juvenile career as popular or unpopular in your peer group was about to depend on the composite answer.
Money can save the world: Interacting with Gale West
My encounter with Gale West came as a surprise. I had been engaging with Rick Kahler and as a result of that encounter, I was curious to know what else was happening of this kind of work to do with IFS and money. Gale’s name came up. Gale is, in fact, a founding mother of such work, having been dealing with this focused combination for decades.
The Strange Power of Financial Therapy: Engaging with Rick Kahler
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The Strange Power of Financial Therapy: Engaging with Rick Kahler
Awaken! IFS and finances Ten months ago, Rick Kahler, who is both a Certified IFS Practitioner and a Certified Financial Therapist, gave me two sessions of financial therapy, IFS style. It was a first for me to pay close attention to my relationship to money. I’ve discussed money often in the past – What salary? What loan? What savings? What is a pension? How to afford that thing? What currency? – but this was the first time I had approached it with my relationship with money in mind.
Using IFS: My Transformation So Far? HL
I’m somewhat floored. As current Editor of PARTS & SELF magazine, where this piece is being published for you to read, I came to the platform already interested in IFS. I have found it fascinating to explore. Something just happened to me. It’s nothing to do with fascination, interest or experimenting.
Introducing Internal Family Systems (IFS) – A discussion… - PARTS & SELF
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model and idea of personal and interpersonal interaction, which began in the early 1980’s and has slowly grown in popular recognition ever since. This is because, for many people, it is reported as helpful. IFS has helped them live better, they say. Extensive personal and professional testimonies of a qualitive kind about this “success effect” are now leading to developments in the form of IFS related empirical research.
University: a user’s guide
Students are paying to get ill, but an alternative is within reach, says Helen Lees Many young people want to build their lives around universities—some for a few years, others for their whole careers. They will work to their limits to get in, to succeed as undergraduates and, if PhD students, to become academics. But many of those students who start their courses so full of dreams find the reality shattering. The statistics are shocking.
Archbishop’s Park Bower unveiled
A stunning new hand-carved new bower or shelter has been unveiled in Archbishop's Park. The bower was designed and hand-carved by local craftsman Arthur de Mowbray, whose work can also be seen at Waterloo Millennium Green, Tabard Gardens and the Tate Modern community garden. The roof is red cedar and the seats and supports have been carved from a single oak tree. The red cedar is from Cowdrey Park Estate in Sussex and the oak tree is from Hammerwood Park near East Grinstead.
Diagnostic accuracy of PAT-POPS and ManChEWS for admissions of children from the emergency department
Background The Pennine Acute Trust (PAT) Paediatric Observation Priority Score (PAT-POPS) is a specific emergency department (ED) physiological and observational aggregate scoring system, with scores of 0–18. A higher score indicates greater likelihood of admission. The Manchester Children's Early Warning System (ManChEWS) assesses six physiological observations to create a trigger score, classified as Green, Amber or Red.
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