Inner change covers those issues that affect you on a personal, interior level.
Distinct from other advisers, coaches or consultants, Halcyon specialises in helping you understand and deal with both inner and outer change, believing that only by finding such a balance can you thrive fully.
We believe that inner change occurs at three primary levels: emotional, physical, and valuable.
Please see below recent self-esteem-related change.
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May 2020
This is an evolving manifesto, more modest than great charters calling for widespread political change, or updated commandments for our time, or even simple poems for our time.
Instead, Halcyon's small charter is primarily a call for inner change, leading to outer change.
We want to help people think more about how they can nurture key values, chief amongst them kindness.
For examples of other inspiring charters, see e.g.
Please see below selected recent anxiety-related change.
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May 2020
"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?
"A Message for Mankind” brings together Charlie Chaplin’s famous speech from The Great Dictator and scenes of humanity’s most tragic and most hopeful moments in recent history, spanning everything from space exploration to street protests.
Personal values are unique to every individual and can loosely be described as a set of beliefs or intuitive feelings inside our heads. They act unconsciously as a guide - telling us how comfortable we feel about different situations,
Please see below a growing and non-exhaustive Halcyon list of values that we can try to live by:
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip - Daniel L. Reardon
Prima facie, this "feels" true. However, the BBC's panel show, It's Only a Theory, featured psychotherapist Lucy Beresford who argued that there is a modern epidemic characterised by the "pursuit of happiness" (often fed by pills), and that sadness is actually a normal part of human life which we should embrace rather than shut out.
