Unfortunately, we go around the world with scripts in our minds. That is to say collections of expectations about how events will unfold and how we should best respond to them. These tell us a lot about our pasts, but the tragedy is that, unaware they exist, we let them determine our futures.

An unexpected and troublesome feature of being human is that we feel so much more than we spontaneously realise we feel. There are emotions coursing through us - of anger or joy, resentment or fear - that lie just outside the sphere of ordinary consciousness and that elude us as we rush through the challenges of our lives.

During this session Thubten explains how to develop a daily mindfulness practice as well as how to integrate it into your daily life, both at work and at home.

Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can't agree -- on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground -- over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations

Author and mathematician Kit Yates discusses his recent book How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions―and the Art of Knowing When Not To, a guide to understanding the surprising science that undergirds our predictions—and how we can use it to our advantage.

It’s one of the great paradoxes of mental life that we’re often unable to access our true feelings about important matters.  We may settle, in haste or fear, on the most obvious answers. We ignore our deep truths first and foremost because we aren’t trained to solicit them.

Social life couldn’t continue if we didn’t have some capacity for forgiveness. We need to flex our forgiveness muscles more regularly though – and the best way to do so is to remember how much we’ve needed others to forgive us in the past.

How could we lose touch with feelings that belong to us? Where might they go? And what might be driving their loss?

It’s perfectly normal to feel weak, lost, and unable to cope. Here is a collection of thoughts to remind us of our inner reserves of resilience.

One of the hardest things in the universe to understand is the interior of our own minds: we can have spent decades on the earth before we've grasped even very basic things about who we are and how we function. It's not for nothing that the Ancient Greeks felt philosophy had only one command: Know yourself! But however arduous, the journey can be facilitated by a few well-aimed bits of advice…