Articles by Bridget Grenville-Cleave
MAPP student at the University of East London. I have over 17 years experience in Organisational Change Management, Finance, and Business Strategy with multi-national FMCGs, Financial Services, the Voluntary Sector, and Independent Broadcasting. I work as an independent business consultant and coach. I am a member of the UK's Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and an MBA (Open). My partner and I live with our 5 year old son in Gloucestershire.
Inspiration, or more precisely the lack of it, strikes fear into the hearts of many students faced with an assignment or test, a blank sheet of paper and a ticking clock. I can remember countless …
So you have some extra cash in your pocket. Do you spend it on the latest gizmo or on going to a restaurant with friends? How does your choice affect your happiness?
Money as …
“The future is looking a whole lot better”
It was the reference to that classic film “Back to the Future” in the title of this new piece of research on future thinking that first caught my …
In the paper, Communicating and Philosophizing about Authenticity and Inauthenticity in a Fast-Paced World, Becky DeGreeff, Ann Burnett and Dennis Cooley at North Dakota State University suggest that living life in the fast lane …
Want to know some evidence-based methods to create stronger bonds with your co-workers? Here are effective tools and techniques from positive psychology theory and research. Most of it is simple to implement too, but does that make it easy?
hy is it that the older you get, the faster time goes? When I was a kid, summers were always long, lazy, languid. Time seemed almost to stand still. The school vacations lasted forever – …
Schooldays by The Kinks (1975)
Do you remember only happy days,
Full of flaming …
Who was it that said that the family which eats together stays together?
Sharing a meal with family or friends is as much a social event as it is a nutritional one. In some reports, shared meals are recognized as a sign of a strong social unit.
My colleague John Buckley used to think of resilience as a suit of armour. Within the armour you feel invincible, safe in the knowledge that nothing can penetrate your defense system. It may be that resilience isn’t an extraordinary quality at all — that we all have the capacity to bounce back.
The theme of CAPP’s 2nd Applied Positive Psychology Conference was Creating flourishing communities: the smallest thing to make the biggest difference. Three keynote presentations painted pictures of positive social change inspired by individual action.

