Eco Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Nick Duffell, on air from Septemeber 11th
In the 21st century we face innumerable material and existential challenges both now and in the future, from religious fanaticism, mass migration, unfettered corporate power, to inequality, big data and climate change. Ahead of these global threats and tragedies is a common barrier to their solution it is the spirit that has defined the age we live in competition. The Simultaneous Policy Solution, the ‘SIMPOL Solution’ shows us how we must all come to terms with the crippling effect of global competition. Only through simultaneous action, through cooperation, can we overcome these problems.
JOIN SARA AND NICK HERE AS WE DISCUSS THE SIMPOL SOLUTION TO THE GLOBAL CRISES
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Nick Duffell was born in 1949, took his degree in Sanskrit at Oxford. He has been a teacher, care-staff, carpenter, divorce mediator, psychotherapist and management consultant. In 1990 he began offering specialist group therapy to Boarding School Survivors (as he provocatively named adult ex-boarders). Ten years later he published his findings in The Making of Them, The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System, which has received wide critical acclaim, including an endorsement by the BMJ.
In 1996, with his wife Helena Løvendal-Duffell, he founded the Centre for Gender Psychology, which offers public workshops as well as specialist training for professionals in the field of relationships, sex, and gender. In 2002 HarperCollins published their book Sex, Love and the Danger of Intimacy, which has now been translated into several languages.
He now specialises in training couple-therapists, working with men’s issues, and is a frequent contributor to theoretical debates in the psychological press. He spends his non-work time deep in the French countryside, caring for trees and vegetables, experimenting with solar power and sawing his own wood.
Psychotherapy trainer, a psychohistorian, and UCL Honorary Research Associate.
Latest book, with John Bunzl: ‘The Simpol Solution: A New Way to Think about Solving the World’s Biggest Problems,’ endorsed by many thought leaders including Noam Chomsky & Ken Wilber, Prometheus, USA edition and Peter Owen, UK edition: .edelweiss.plus
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