So I’m often asked “How do I use mind tools to manage stress?” I reply with, “manage! why not banish?”

“You see stress is context and state dependent!”

What do we mean by context and state dependent? Well... Read more...

So what do you want? What or who would you like to be, or be like?

Setting your intention is great isn’t it? Well it is if you are...

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For some years now TRC media have been evolving an exciting digital media programme called Cross Creative which focuses on expanding knowledge and creative horizons and the importance and nature of the relationships underpinning collaborative projects.

The 2012 run of the programme is now open for applications.

The fully-funded programme offers:

• Access to a raft of top digital players in the UK, Canada and the…

We want information...

I'm getting a tad tired of the inaccurate, sloppy, lazy, ill informed, repetitive (ok I'll stop there with the neg head talk) prose that some commentators spout about NLP, New Code NLP and Hypnosis...along with other mind tools of that ilk. So I decided to build myself a blog.

I am qualified to do so, why? Well you see I trained with Brain Train Academy ( a company I now own) to practitioner level a little over 5 years ago. I then trained with one of the…

Startup Weekends have been going on around the world for the last couple of years but until now there has not been one in Scotland. Rookie Oven's Michael Hayes is correcting this on May 25th with the first ever Scottish Startup Weekend being held in Glasgow, (disclosure- we're all volunteers for this non-profit event and I am helping a bit too.)

These events are a…

PUMA.Creative and the BRITDOC Foundation announce the jurors for the PUMA.Creative Impact Award 2012: Hollywood actors and activists, Danny Glover and Djimon Hounsou; director, Mira Nair; writer and campaigner, Jemima Khan; and Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo. The second annual PUMA.Creative Impact Award, which honours the documentary films creating the most significant impact in the…

BBC Scotland broadcast Archipelago, the final of 4 new music commissions funded by Creative Scotland's Quality Production Arts strand.

It's about a journey back to the city from the hills.....only the hills have become islands due to rising seas,  foul weather and freak storms.

What happens next is a dark but humorous escapade that hits it's peak when the music intercepts Ron Butlin's words, in the poem Gondolas of South Bridge.

Nick Dempsey made the clip you can see…

Come along to our new ‘how to video with your iPhone’ workshop and you could win our £1000 workshop award from Northern Lights.

The workshop takes place on Sunday 29th April, 10am till 5pm. Northern Lights Director Nick Higgins will help inspire your creative thinking, and then challenge you to…

Ok, its been a long time since my last blog! Time for a catch up and a mid-year resolution- to post more regularly, but first here’s some things I made earlier… see more here!…

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Malcolm Davison, managing director of writingfortheweb.co.uk, makes the point that we should consider the best way to convey our important information. Downloadable documents can prove to be a barrrier to good communication. Malcolm gives a couple of examples.

Also a reminder about the public web writing course in Edinburgh on 2 May. Don't miss this, the UK's leading web content course, it won't be back to Scotland until the Autumn!…

East Renfrewshire Council: Educational Psychologist (for children) from ideals on Vimeo.…

The Modern Guide to the Scottish Local Elections

UK’s First Live Online Only Local Interactive Question Time debates Launches from Glasgow for 2012 Council Elections.

The first  Modern Guide  “Question Time – Local Live and Social”  broadcast,  is taking place at the Parish Halls, George Square Glasgow on April 2, 2012 at 7:00pm.

Chaired by Times journalist and political broadcaster Lorraine Davidson, the event will have leading figures…

Having just returned from 5 months travelling I wrote about the difficulties of finding time for music whilst on the road for Glasgow blog Elba Sessions

http://elbasessions.co.uk/2012/03/music-travels/

See a blog post I wrote for Elba Session on American author Robert Jackson Bennett

http://elbasessions.co.uk/2012/03/books-you-say-robert-jackson-bennett/

An increasing number of digital media companies have been successful in securing credits, but uptake across the sector is generally low. This event will raise awareness of how digital media companies can benefit form R&D tax credits.

The speaker for this session is Mark Houston from Johnston Carmichael. The session will have a focus on R&D Tax Credits for Digital Media companies with a presentation followed by a Q&A session and time for networking.

For more…

Goat Media www.go-at.co.uk is looking for tech partners with expertise in online video applications to support make a funding applicaton to nesta r&d fund http://ning.it/AEcxFk 

We have an idea for an innovative digital arts project and need an excited adventurous collaborator to support an application we are making for funds.

For the 6^th year Scottish Documentary Institute is organising the Edinburgh Pitch, Scotland’s only international pitching forum (18-20 June 2012).

We are looking for feature documentary projects with international potential. The Edinburgh Pitch is open to all film-makers based in the UK and abroad, and particularly aims at independent film-makers and companies developing and raising finance for creative feature documentaries (52'-90') and considering international…