by StudioTiger | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
A Tale of Two Cities “There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.” As the end of term arrives, I have found myself reflecting on the extraordinary realities of the past eighteen months. Orange Ball has supported a range of schools in London and Liverpool...
by StudioTiger | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Resilience is in the Eye of the Beholder What makes up a resilient person or a resilient team? Burnley Football Club’s manager, Sean Dyche, seems to value the quality of resilience quite highly. He will often praise the resilience of his team after having fallen...
by StudioTiger | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Resilient Metaphors: Is Your Glass Half Full? “The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another,”. Whenever one thing is described in terms of another, that’s a metaphor (Lakoff, 1980). The word originates from the Greek...
by StudioTiger | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Resilience and the Athletic Mind Executive functions make up the system that controls higher-order cognitive processes such as planning, decision making, information monitoring, self-regulation, goal directed behaviour and much of human volitional behaviour. The...
