Continuous advances in technology and Assistive Technology (AT) enhance the range of work that people can do outside the office environment, making working-from-home (WFH), hybrid or remote working a realistic option for many workers with disabilities. It may suit those seeking greater flexibility in their working day, allow for better…

It’ time to ditch failing strategies and embracing an inclusive future of work Covid-19 has compounded the difficulties disabled people face with regard to work, but it did not cause the fault-line in Irish social policy that resulted in Ireland having the poorest EU participation rates of disabled people in the workforce…even before the pandemic. Despite the shift in emphasis to remote working…

I wrote this piece for Unpsychology, as a response to meeting the earth rising in the shape of a Buddhist nun, whose fearsomeness pivoted me into an uneasy and more honest relationship with myself. The sky outside is darkening, turning the feeling of the room to mahogany, I taste the…

As an embodied being, you have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Getting to grips with this fact of life leads to endless possibilities — and a new story The narrative you weave for your life cannot be outsourced. You cannot rely on promises of salvation via vaccines, politics…

Two things I have learned in 2020, including a paradox of chili proportions Lockdown curry “The lockdown curry” became infamous, when, after months of home cooking I announced we were splashing out on a takeaway. Our mouths watered as we studied the online menu and grappled with our desire for chicken, avoiding…

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The key to understanding our nature as Systems Beings — The human brain has a network of nearly 70 billion neurons and the cosmic network of galaxies is thought to have at least 100 billion galaxies. Given the vast difference in scale, what could these two most challenging and complex systems in nature have in common? New research suggests that…

Getting to grips with “The Facts of Life” There is no cure for the facts of life just as there is no cure for hot and cold. If you have been waiting to go somewhere, it is time to let it go. If you have been waiting to arrive somewhere, it is time to think again. Yes, you are always in flux, yes, you are always in the process…

Rooting ourselves in our bodies to seed new possibilities Today I am a human catalogue of seeds. Who knows which might take root and grow, or be blown in the wind to some lifeless spot. In either case, I will sow, as we humans do — cycling between downward and virtuous cycles. At 1 pm, I am having a Zoom lunch with a friend: we are both feeling up-ended: it’s an edgy discomfort. There seems to be no ground that we can safely land and rest in our hearts or our minds. It…