Lost Connections

Feelings of unhappiness, or even anxiety and depression, are often signals that we need to change an aspect of our lives. Today, start paying attention to those signals.

In this culture, we’ve often been told one simplistic story about depression and anxiety. It’s helpful to question it and ask if other factors are at work. In this session, reflect upon your story.

Depression and anxiety thrive in the right conditions. In this Session, identify the aspects of your own life that you could start to address and change.

It’s time to dig into your lost connections. Today, look at the relationships in your own life and how they could become more meaningful.

Often, when you feel bad, you try to do something for yourself, like buy yourself something. That’s what I did. But I learnt first-hand how another perspective can be more helpful.

In this session, discover how being part of a community can have profound, positive effects for both you and everyone else.

Are you an Instagram addict or just an occasional tweeter? Online habits reveal much about our offline lives. In this session, reflect on your Internet use and what it says about the connections in your life.

Envy makes you miserable – but our society pushes us to constantly compare ourselves to others. In this session, learn a simple technique to experience less jealousy and more joy.

Which role in a company is the most stressful and miserable? Running things at the top, or working at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy?

According to the best research, the vast majority of people in our culture don’t currently enjoy their jobs. How about you? Today, reflect on how to find or fight for meaningful work.

We all need values to guide us through life, like a compass. But if you are given the wrong compass, you will end up seeking happiness in all the wrong places. Let’s think about how to get to meaningful values.

Have you heard of “retail therapy”? In this Session, reflect on how shopping and spending actually make you feel.

Advertising has invaded most of the spaces where we spend our time, often making us unhappy or anxious in subtle ways. In this session, find out how to shield yourself from this frenemy.

Most of us have unresolved experiences from the past that can affect us in ways we don’t fully understand. In this session, begin the process of changing that.

So much of the way our society now works can make you feel like you are low status and don’t matter – whether it’s working in a hierarchical corporation, or flicking through Instagram. In this session, we’re going to look at how to work towards a more equal society.

What happens when people are deprived of the natural world? Just look at a zoo animal to find out. In this session, boost your mood by connecting to nature around you.

We don’t just exist as minds – we exist as bodies. Moving our bodies can give relief to our minds.

All human beings need to feel they have a future that makes sense. But in this culture, a lot of people have been deprived of that – through no fault of their own. In this session, we’ll start to reconnect to our futures.

Many of us wonder where we can possibly find the time and energy to really improve our lives and the world. In this session, learn about an idea that has been proven to reduce depression – and to create the space for us to do just that.

We live in a culture that is constantly getting us to think of ourselves in small, cramped, selfish ways. What happens when we reduce our sense of ego and connect to something bigger?

There are many forms of reconnection we can choose together. In this session, we'll take a look back at them.