November Reader’s Corner

Over 50 expeditions across all seven continents have provided ex-Royal Marine Neil Laughton with some incredible stories and invaluable insights.

In this book he shares some of the most unforgettable with us – whether its summitting Mount Everest with Bear Grylls, piloting the world’s first road-legal flying car across the Sahara Desert or train-surfing in Myanmar – there’s something for everyone in this roller-coaster ride around the world.

This gripping collection of stories is a wonderful way to explore planet Earth, and learn how Neil Laughton has navigated journeys by land, sea and air.

Whether crossing jungles, deserts, oceans or mountains via climbing, trekking, flying and on one occasion even paddling a bath, Laughton’s inspirational accounts are, in the words of Sir Richard Branson, “A wonderful reminder to say yes a little bit more in life”.

With climate change quickly becoming climate emergency, mental health professionals face another secondary problem: how do you help people process a superordinate trauma caused by humanity as a whole, that may affect everyone differently? In unprecedented times one cannot rely on the past.

In this book, Steffi Bednarek helps to solve this problem – bringing together perspectives from senior psychotherapists from around the world, this volume reflects on the changes required for the psychotherapy profession for it to be able to keep up with the complex, interconnected challenges of our time. Global trauma such as this forces us to fundamentally re-evaluate our perception of what it means to be human and what it means to be fulfilled.

More specifically, within this book Steffi Bednarek explores notions of environmental justice, biospheric trauma, anthropocentrism and the need for the decolonisation of the mental health profession. The reader is invited to examine their own responses and contributions towards a collaborative exploration of what the mental health professions have to offer at this threshold moment for humanity’s future. 

In Pandit Dasa’s latest book the monk-turned-leadership-guru explains how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict and ultimately build stronger professional (and personal) relationships.

Dasa shows us how we can eliminate distractions and find better pace and productivity in our lives, within the interconnected age of constant shallow stimulation that is life today. Unlike other books in this area, Pandit Dasa provides specific meditation processes and actions you can take to help you succeed as you begin or continue your journey.

Through presentations, workshops and talks around the world, the author has honed his craft of creating a more mindful workplace culture which improves retention, reduces stress, improves selflessness and helps you avoid obstacles that are keeping you from happiness and fulfilment.

As such Dasa shares in his book a kind of road map to escaping feelings of being overwhelmed, distracted and anxious that are so common in today’s fast-paced, information-saturated world.