A personal introduction to a strategy for losers
Know thyselfWhy a strategy for losers?
A theory of loneliness Addiction - a stage in life's journey Anti-poverty environmental projects - practical experience Art, mental health and environment Beyond suicidal economics Clearer thinking Conspiracies & conspiracy theories Coping with arousal states Cyber porn - the ethical issues Desperation among young people Development from within - psychology and ethics in bottom up change Emotional first aid Employment after mental health problems Empowering the earth - strategies for social change - book review Energy equality or energy kleptocracy Energy rationing - alternative to war Ethics and economic performance Eventually hearing ear worms - learning a second language Fame, the media and the dream factory Flying the skull and bones Fundamentalism in communities of belief Give us this day our daily bread - food economy and food ecology Harmonising social, environmental and economic development in local projects How not to do community work Immigration Detention Centre Internet Campaigning - holding power structures to account Life: University of the North Pole Local and community economy projects in the UK Meaning madness & recovery Mental health and the environment Mental health in locality and neighbourhood development Military PR - resisting the manipulation of public support Modernising Deceit Negative and positive communication in social networks Oil & world politics after the World Trade Center attacks Paranoid worldviews - perception and self perception in politics Pathologies and policies of time Politics as attention seeking Power, empowerment and the political system Religion and philosophy Self control Sexuality, the market and mental health Skivers and time wasters Slaughtering animals and slaughtering people The contexts of marketed sex The courage to not come first The human right to a peaceful death The manufacture of consent as emotional and cultural management The measurement of performance in the community & voluntary sector The new testament re-evaluated The psychology of superiority and racism The voluntary and community sector - A need for reform? Participating in the Tao - "The Web of Life" Understanding Collapse Understanding mental breakdowns as life management breakdowns Upbringing and psychosis User involvement - from consultancy to consultation Wars against terrorism Whistle blowing - the psychodynamics of office conflict Work stress, performance & emotional management World politics in the age of oil depletion
- Eine persönliche Sicht auf den gemeinnützigen Sektor (German)
- Macht, empowerment und das politische system (German)
- Neue Ansätze in der Gemeinwesenarbeit in England (German)
- Self Help Responses in Russia's Economic Crisis (Russian) - rtf file
Book Reviews
Stories & Travels
Nottingham in 2004
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