The Brain Dojo Podcast

Richard and Maisie catch up with Chris Hammond, a Mental Health Professional with many years of experience. We discuss personality, mental health and things you can do to look after your own mental health.

In this episode, we chat to Dan (a teacher of English as an additional language) and discuss his interesting teaching career and general philosophy on sharing knowledge. 

We all know that the language we use when talking to others can make or break a relationship. But what about the language we use when talking to ourselves? Positive communication is everything! 

Personality types - there are many! But do you know which one you are? Does it fit with the type of person that you'd like to be? 
Lots of us don't even consider discovering which personality type we have, but we think it's a very useful thing to do on your personal development journey.

In this episode, we talk about loyalty and how we can develop it. How its perceived differently by different people and much more.

When you're passionate about something, you connect with it on a different level. In this episode, we discuss being passionate about a subject and how it can influence our focus and where we want to put our attention. 

"Pay attention!" We'v all heard it at some point in our lives and we all understand the importance of paying attention. 
But, paying attention is often more rewarding for the person paying the attention, rather than the person who has demanded the action. 

Being aware of and respecting the views and feelings of others is important. It's equally important for you to have and build strong relationships with others - which is going to be very difficult for you if you have poor manners. 
Let's talk politeness! 

We all know that one person who's ultra creative. Great, but can being creative benefit everyone? Even those who claim they're not creative at all?
After all, being creative doesn't just mean you can paint and draw...

Most of us, at some point in our lives, will experience some form of bullying. 'Bullying' doesn't always have to take place at school when you're young, it can take place at any point in your life. 
Can we avoid bullying? Is it possible to prepare ourselves to stop bullying from happening to us?