Knowhow: introduction 250k
An outline of how The Mind Gymnasium approaches information about the mind
Self-assessment 324k
A key task of personal development is assessing ourselves, making friends with ourselves and attending to both delights and deficiencies. This short introduction outlines why this matters.
Caring for your mind 350k
Taking more responsibility for our minds.
Spiritual development 480k
Integrating psychology and politics with the sacredness of life.
Love, understanding and choice 500k
Three core qualities that make us human, and which, if they are missing or interfered with, can limit and undermine the quality of our intelligences.
Exercises: You and the planet 600k
Help in discovering how we can interrupt and heal the wounding our planet is suffering.
Personal history 600k
Assess how your mind has been shaped by your upbringing.
Conflict 700k
A pictorial map of how conflicts unfold and some of the options for navigating through them
Exercises: First things first 900k
As it suggests, a section that sets the scene for the many exercises in The Mind Gymnasium.
Beliefs 1,16Mb
A quiz-based assessment section to help you get a handle on the beliefs from which you live.
Exercises: You and others 1.3Mb
A substantial series of exercises that will help you improve your relationships with other people.
Living together 1.4Mb
Recipes and notions about coupledom that will help your partnership flourish.
Introductions 1.5Mb
Introduction to the digital edition, and a reprint of the introduction to the original paper editions of The Mind Gymnasium.
New paradigm mind 1.5Mb
A substantial section that supports the notion of an emerging paradigm of mind that may be very different from previous versions.
Life events 1.5Mb
A catalogue of some of the life events that may have had a lasting influence on how your life is unfolding.
Emotional competence 1.6Mb
More grounded in capability than emotional intelligence or emotional literacy - emotional competence offers an extremely practical yardstick for personal and professional development.
Bodymind 1.7Mb
How body-friendly is your life-style? Assessment quizzes that help you check it out.
Identity 2.1 Mb
Being able to settle into ourselves and our uniqueness is often a matter of identity, of knowing who we. This section offer several aids to self-discovery.
Intelligences 2.25Mb
This section helps us check out the diversity of gifts that we bring to daily life. Along the way discover how the notion of multiple intelligences contradicts the belief that intellect does, or should reign supreme.
Relating 2.36Mb
Quizzes and write-in tasks that help identify the styles, strength, and deficiencies of your relating.
Professional development 2.4Mb
The Mind Gymnasium sees professional development is necessarily rooted in adequate personal development - otherwise we are risk falling into the swamps of burnout, staleness, boredom and depression.
Personal development 2.55Mb
While the whole of The Mind Gymnasium is about personal development, this section tightens the focus on some of the key elements of effective development.
Rights, acknowledgements and appendices 3.31Mb
As it says.
Bringing about change 3.4Mb
A lengthy section about the spectrum of creative styles that we employ when bringing about or responding to change.
The making of the mind 3.6Mb
A substantial section that points to key stages and elements of child development from birth and before to the teenage years.
Exercises: You and yourself 4.1Mb
Learning to pay attention to our inner universes and their contents, wishes and desires is a key element of personal and professional development.
Old paradigm mind 4.9Mb
The emerging sense of a new paradigm of mind helps recognize the cultures of dominance that are threaded through our collective mindscapes and the violence and damage they bring.
Mind in action 9Mb
Becoming a person, historical mindscapes that live on in daily life, attachment, the ingredients of attention, emotionality, psychological defences.
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