“Speech is silver but silence is golden”. Most people are only familiar with the ‘silence is golden’ bit of this ancient phrase and on hearing the first half are both surprised and a little bemused. What does it mean, ‘speech is silver’ and Read More …
What exactly is compassion? Put simply, compassion is the ‘recognition’ of another’s suffering and a desire to alleviate that suffering. Compassion is often dismissed as a religious term and therefore increasingly irrelevant in a modern secular society. Read More …
Being “still” for most of us is an alien experience, something we run away from rather than run towards. It is an activity that many would describe as boring, un-inspiring and at times even frightening, hence our general Read More …
The Reach Approach is all about helping the individual reach his/her potential and fulfill his/her purpose. Much of the way we work is based on you looking honestly at yourself, but not in a negative, self-critical way, by Read More …
Listening is a quiet, gentle, attentive skill. The more you practice it the more it becomes an art which enables you to see life with all its depth and subtleties. Listening makes the complex simple, it makes the Read More …
The journey of personal growth depends on listening. Listening is the critical ingredient in the positive change process; without it we simply remain stuck in the very things we are desperate to leave behind. If you keep going Read More …
Life at a much deeper level is about the magical interplay between silence and sound. Both silence and sound are like large orchestras playing intricate and sophisticated melodies quite seperate and independent of each other and yet there Read More …
Thich Nhat Hanh is a poet, Zen Master, and peacemaker. He served as chair of the Buddhist Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks during the Vietnam War, and was nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Nobel Peace Read More …
Progress is such a paradoxical process. Just as we think we may have cracked it or tamed the beast of adversity another challenge comes and questions our beliefs, our focus and resolve. Before we know it we’re on Read More …
Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist, educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard. He is an acclaimed travel writer who began his career documenting the disconnect between local tradition and imported global ‘pop culture’. Since 1986 he has Read More …
