Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Design Artifacts and Gaming Transform Financial Planning Services
Designing financial planning services using tangible design artifacts and gaming frameworks to make them more inclusive and enjoyable.
LinkGame Design and
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Curiosity drives an urgent desire for answers. But it can also prompt more patience, enabling people to savor moments of discovery.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-spoilers-please-why-curiosity-makes-us-patient/
Guided meditations were useful in decreasing emotional distress during COVID lockdowns, but the effect was not lasting
Vladimir Hedrihpsypost.org
so many research questions
science confirms that simply thinking about ANY object, event or scene changes your physiological state and can either drain your energy or replenish it. “Based on these and hundreds of other studies, we now have good evidence that your brain predicts your body’s responses by drawing on prior experiences with similar situations and objects, even... See more
olgakabel • Balance your "body budget" through movement, thoughts and relationships - Sequence Wiz
Despite formal recommendations (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence [NICE], 2022) and evidence supporting the effectiveness of organisational change and work redesign on improving worker well-being (Fox et al., 2022; Lovejoy et al., 2021), interventions that target the individual worker are most common.
William J. Fleming • Employee well‐being outcomes from individual‐level mental health ...
workplace and well-being
brain regions linked to attention and focus align more closely as the familiarity between dog and owner grows.
Jacqueline Boyd • When Dogs and Humans Connect, So Do Their Brainwaves - Neuroscience News
Your brain on imagination: It's a lot like reality, study shows
sciencedaily.com
Futures thinking and
research - imagination is like reality
At the moment Nature does not have a voice in the decisions we take that are scientifically proven to be driving climate breakdown and destroying biodiversity. Our view is that we have separated ourselves from Nature, and see ourselves as exceptional rather than interdependent with Nature and this is a root cause of our behaviour as a species... See more
We are Nature - an open letter to the publishers of UK dictionaries
The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative.