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Website and posts on #Coaching
by Andrew Paterson
https://cogtogear.co.uk
Website and posts on #Coaching
by Andrew Paterson
https://cogtogear.co.uk
“The strategies highlighted here aren’t about doing more. They’re about protecting your energy, reclaiming your peace, and strengthening your presence” Dealing with #stress
Thanksgiving Break sure went by fast. Are you ready for the December s-t-r-e-t-c-h? Check out my latest article on Substack for 3 strategies on how to survive and even thrive in the classroom during the often hectic and stressful run-up to the holidays. #teacher #school #education #stress #holiday
Finding Your Rhythm Again: 3 Strategies for Teachers Returning After Thanksgiving Break
How to successfully ease your way back into the grind.
drjohnstegall.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“The strategies highlighted here aren’t about doing more. They’re about protecting your energy, reclaiming your peace, and strengthening your presence” Dealing with #stress
“The case for change is pretty stark. Since the pandemic, the number of working-age people who are economically inactive due to health conditions has increased by 40% to a total of 2.8m. Projections suggest ….another 600,000 could leave work by 2030”
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Keeping Britain Working - Cog to Gear
The UK Government has just published the independent review “Keeping Britain Working” on what can be done to tackle burgeoning economic inactivity arising from workers’ ill health and what can be do...
cogtogear.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“The case for change is pretty stark. Since the pandemic, the number of working-age people who are economically inactive due to health conditions has increased by 40% to a total of 2.8m. Projections suggest ….another 600,000 could leave work by 2030”
cogtogear.co.uk/keeping-brit...
cogtogear.co.uk/keeping-brit...
Still in this age - the power of the notebook
And that’s a wrap. Just put my final @prospectmagazine.co.uk to bed after four and a half years, and nearly 45 issues. The best possible luck to a fabulously talented and lovely team and to my successor, Philip Collins.
December 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Still in this age - the power of the notebook
Never thwart ambition
in some ways the height of comedy?
Amazing choice made at the Hyatt
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Never thwart ambition
Politics of another age? It needn’t be
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Politics of another age? It needn’t be
Our Great City #London #Embankment today
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Our Great City #London #Embankment today
And another song of #feeling that comes randomly to mind #JohnLennon
open.spotify.com/track/2X9H5B...
open.spotify.com/track/2X9H5B...
I'm So Tired - Remastered 2009
open.spotify.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
And another song of #feeling that comes randomly to mind #JohnLennon
open.spotify.com/track/2X9H5B...
open.spotify.com/track/2X9H5B...
Where to start with #JohnLennon songs today? This wasn’t a favourite of mine at the time but over the decades is certainly near the top
open.spotify.com/track/3Am0Ib...
open.spotify.com/track/3Am0Ib...
Strawberry Fields Forever - Remastered 2009
open.spotify.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Where to start with #JohnLennon songs today? This wasn’t a favourite of mine at the time but over the decades is certainly near the top
open.spotify.com/track/3Am0Ib...
open.spotify.com/track/3Am0Ib...
What does the weather hold for today? #Stroud #Rodborough
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
What does the weather hold for today? #Stroud #Rodborough
Some things in life are difficult to understand and probably not worth trying to
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Some things in life are difficult to understand and probably not worth trying to
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A therapeutic brand for every human nook and cranny is the profession chasing its own tail. Rather than collecting tools for every situation, we should focus on fundamentals that work in most situations.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-age-of...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-age-of...
The Age of Acronyms
"Little by little and letter by letter, acronyms obscure the essence of psychotherapy." Stephanie Foster
www.psychiatrymargins.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A therapeutic brand for every human nook and cranny is the profession chasing its own tail. Rather than collecting tools for every situation, we should focus on fundamentals that work in most situations.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-age-of...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-age-of...
I try to greet people I encounter on my morning walk with a cheerful “Good Morning” . I wasn’t expecting this today - and sadly she didn’t respond #Stroud
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I try to greet people I encounter on my morning walk with a cheerful “Good Morning” . I wasn’t expecting this today - and sadly she didn’t respond #Stroud
This is a long read but well worth reading and re-reading as we struggle to understand our world www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This is a long read but well worth reading and re-reading as we struggle to understand our world www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
Some things are going OK #breakfast #garden
June 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Some things are going OK #breakfast #garden
Two evocative sounds on a summer evening -The drone of a light aircraft or in this case, the tell-tale blast of a gas burner #Rodborough #Stroud
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Two evocative sounds on a summer evening -The drone of a light aircraft or in this case, the tell-tale blast of a gas burner #Rodborough #Stroud
Both hope and threat today #Rodborough #Stroud
June 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Both hope and threat today #Rodborough #Stroud
The Severn a bit brooding today at Purton Hulks
May 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Severn a bit brooding today at Purton Hulks
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May 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Cog to Gear
“Without an ability to think and speak in real moral language, we end up in a place where there is no more shame in hypocrisy, no dishonour in rapacious greed; where if something is true or false matters less than how many people believe it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards? | Alexander Hurst
Political cowardice, corruption and greed have eroded our social fabric. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
“Without an ability to think and speak in real moral language, we end up in a place where there is no more shame in hypocrisy, no dishonour in rapacious greed; where if something is true or false matters less than how many people believe it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...