Helping individuals, organisations and communities
connect with and create Effective Futures
Begin with the end in play®
Begin with the end in play is a short, intensive (2 hr) workshop for project / sales / management professionals, focused on the 'machinery' that underpins, enables and powers our ability to create desired results (e.g. sales targets and project outcomes).
The workshop introduces advanced quantum principles that enable stronger, more resilient focusing on, and realisation of, one's desired future circumstances and goals.
Key insights into how possibilities are 'realised' into lived actuality are covered.
Creative, intuitive abilities are couched within an expanded philosophical framework that recognises the need to 'let go' mechanical (past-based) thinking and behaviour.
Welcome
The Belief Institute is an information resource and a bureau of consultants who provide tools and information with which to clarify, consolidate and expand understanding of personal, social and organisational belief-systems.
Generally, the Belief Institute is a specialist service providing mentoring, coaching and training for
Confidence, Wellbeing and Resilience
What is resilience, and how do we develop or strengthen it?
Generally, we understand resilience as that admirable quality of being able to face adversity and bounce back after mishap.
Confidence in the face of adversity requires a deep certainty of eventual well-being and success – that we can 'come through' unpleasant experiences, and be enriched by them.
It's an inner strength that enables a positive outlook, despite negative circumstances and events.
Executive mentoring and coaching
Part and parcel of any executive's role is delegating responsibly. To achieve desired business objectives, we can't do everything ourselves, so we necessarily delegate various tasks ... and therein lies a problem: how do we maintain control over required outcomes, without micromanaging every detail?
To some extent well defined and documented systems and procedures provide effective guidelines and frameworks, but no system can ensure individual initiative and creativity.
Effective leaders and managers need to mentor and coach their teams.
Full Sense Leadership
What is Full Sense Leadership?
Full Sense Leadership defines two key capabilities of, and dimensions to leadership.
- Full Sense Leaders understand and accept there is a fullness to life that cannot be adequately reduced to, or fully revealed by analysis, reason or science. This fullness requires a felt-sense, an intuitive ability to tap the rich, flowing dynamics of diverse but interconnected systems - the global economy, ecosystems, social groups and media, and of our own psyches.
Full Sense Leaders understand the power and necessity of working intuitive abilities with reasoning and analysis. They know they sometimes have to trust their gut feelings despite evidence or analysis suggesting contrary courses of action. - Full Sense Leaders are able to put things in perspective, and to make sense of the world. A Full Sense Leader is someone who sees and senses the bigger picture, sufficient to map and productively lead the way in troubling times.
Full Sense Leadership is the skill and ability to work the combination of head and heart, of logical and intuitive, of local and nonlocal.
Full Sense Leaders accept the validity of nonlocal awareness - an awareness that taps into the at-once fullness and interconnectedness of life.
Factors in employee health, wellbeing and resilience
[Copyright Steaphen Pirie Belief Institute 2009]
Introduction
This article is an introductory analysis of the factors determining health, and how awareness of these factors can form a useful guide for employers.
These factors are derived from the long-term research conducted by Sir Michael Marmot, who has found that one's 'psycho-social ecosystem' is at least two thirds* responsible for health and longevity.
A checklist of considerations is provided to help the development of workplace policies.
* According to the research, factors such as smoking, obesity, poor diet, lack of exercise and hereditary issues account for only 1/4 to 1/3 the total cause for ill-health and premature death.
Social Determinants of Health
When considering the nature of employee health within organisations, it is worthwhile to expand the context to include as many factors as possible that may impinge, directly or indirectly on the quality of health.
In the 2003 World Health Organization’s report on social determinants of health, Dr Michael Marmot and Dr Richard Wilkinson reported that:
“Even in the most affluent countries, people who are less well off have substantially shorter life expectancies and more illnesses than the rich. Not only are these differences in health an important social injustice, they have also drawn scientific attention to some of the most powerful determinants of health standards in modern societies. They have led in particular to a growing understanding of the remarkable sensitivity of health to the social environment and to what have become known as the social determinants of health."1
The research into social determinants of health is sufficiently broad and rigorous to link social factors with corresponding levels of health and life expectancy.
- 1. Michael Marmot & Richard Wilkinson, Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Fact (Second Edition, 2003). World Health Organisation (Europe), Page 7. Ref. www.euro.who.int/document/e81384.pdf
Value and benefits
What are the expected benefits of this service?
Time; energy; money; well-being ... and professional credibility.
To espouse beliefs and practices that are superseded by new insights can seriously undermine one's professional effectiveness and credibility.
If you're not aligned with the deeper principles of life -- principles that will stand the test of time -- then why might a client have full confidence in your services?
About
The Belief Institute was created to provide a world-class centre for high-quality content that consolidates and expands understanding. Its mission is to reveal and improve 'bodies of belief' in all areas of life: personal, social, spiritual, political, scientific, organisational.
The Institute provides access to specialist advisers in:
