What's Changing? - Emerging Trends
Please see below emerging trends on a variety of topics.
August 2021
We actively monitor change covering more than 150 key elements of life.
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What's Changing? - Clarity
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August 2021
- As city lights swallow the stars, some species may get disoriented. Light pollution means animals like the dung beetle, which uses the Milky Way as a guide, are robbed of their ability to navigate by the stars, warned Quartz.
June 2021
What's Changing? - Place
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July 2021
What's Changing? - Listening
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August 2021
- In, Why We Need to Feel Heard, The School of Life explained that one of our deepest longings - deeper than we even perhaps recognise day to to day - is that other people should acknowledge certain of our feelings. We want that, at key moments, our sufferings should be understood, our anxieties noticed and our sadness lent legitimacy. We don’t want others necessarily to agree with all our feelings, but what we crave is that they at least validate them.
What's New? - Psychology
Halcyon curates the most significant psychology-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with psychology-related challenges.
On Human Nature
"There are two great forces of human nature......self-interest and caring for others", according to Bill Gates.
If true, then:
(1) What is the approximate balance between the two today - in individuals, organisations and societies? How much time do we really spend thinking about and then acting on other people's needs?
(2) How can we start an open and ongoing debate about what the balance should be - next year, in 2030 etc? If we don't do this, then how can individuals really know how to lead a "good" life, can organisations know what their wider responsibilities really are and can societies really know how to develop fair policies for all?
On Books
Above and beyond the many unread volumes i already have there are many other books that I'd still like to read, given sufficient life and leisure, including the following:
On 52 ideas, 52 weeks
Halcyon's 52 ideas: 52 weeks campaign will start in late 2021, featuring a range of responses to issues you may be facing at the personal, organisational and/or societal levels (see examples below).