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    9-12 May, must-see award winning play on the life cycle of Wounded Leaders. The Polished Scar is “an intimate study of the child to full grown, sculpted, then embraced or dumped by our institutions, and at what cost”. Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London details here

    Last places for
    Working with Privileged Abandonment
    a CPD day with Nick and Alistair McIntosh, former dir Centre for Human Ecology. In-person event Glasgow, but filmed (not recorded) and Zoomed. 14 May 2022, Glasgow Details 

    STOP PRESS New dates for The UnMaking of Them professional training starting again next year 20 May 2023. The course is already filling so please don’t delay. Details

    Order The Making of Them directly from us and avoid the big corporates here.

    SALE: we have some slight imperfect copies of all our books at reduced price, contact us if you are interested.

    Nick interviewed by Carrie Frais and Kristin Berry on Notes on Leadership, telling his own story with favourite music tracks, snippet here and full podcast here

    Wounded Leaders that shaped the World on the The Brendon Marotta Show watch video here or listen here

    Piers Cross’ popular Evolving Man video interview with Q & A on the boarding phenomenon, here.

    How does Boarding Education impact society in Britain and Overseas? Zoom Symposium Spring 2022 dates TBC from OPUS with Nick, Thurstine, Olya Khaleelee, Carlos Remotti-Breton and Dwight Turner, registration here.

    Do you want to become a MensWork group facilitator? New training starts 2022, details here.

    Leadership fit for purpose: podcast on the US-based Healing the Wounds of Yesterday series – listen here.

    Acclaimed Australian interview: what Boarding School Survival really means, listen here.

    The Simpol Solution, Nick interviewed by consciousness expert Rob Cobbold here.

    Watch Brut News film on boarding, politics and the nation’s health here

    Listen to Nick on Boris, ‘King of Wounded Leaders’: on NZ Radio Sunday Morning Show, here.

    Germany’s leading magazine, Spiegel, on British wounded leadership – read here.

    The Morning Star (does anyone read it anymore?) on boarding and leadership – read here.

    Audiobook of The Making of Them now available for instant download here.

    Is there a hidden well-being crisis in today’s boarding schools and not just in the past? Watch new investigative short film Boarding School Survivors here

     

     

    Boys will be…? A psycho-historical rant. Nick on to how to tackle the scandalous issues of sexual harassment and aggression by young men, and how we got ourselves, and our boys, into this mess, here.

    Listen to Nick discussing the book ‘Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege’ with Greg Moffit, founder of online radio station Legalise Freedom here

    New research shows boarding to be a bad training for leadership, summary here

    What is Psychohistory?

    Psychohistory explores how shifts in consciousness and national mind-sets create ways of thinking about the world. Read more

    Newsnight interview

    Nick interviewed on Newsnight Scotland, after winning Edinburgh University debate, on how boarding effects ruling elites .
    See article in The Sunday Herald.

    About Wounded Leaders

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    The new campaigning organisation Boarding School Action is looking for supporters, bloggers, activists as well as donors: a film project to explain the issues is planned.
  • Wounded Leaders - Out Now

    Wounded Leaders - Out Now

    In an age when America elected its first black president and the Middle East stirred with popular uprising, Britons were again content to elect the products of their elitist Public Schools. But, their grooming for power aside, does such an education produce excellence – or expertise in self-deception and duplicity? The early 21st Century gives us some clues. Tony Blair maintained his façade of inner conviction but...

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  • About the Author: Nick Duffell

    About the Author: Nick Duffell

    Nick Duffell specialises in psychohistory, mens issues and the psychology of entitlement. 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...

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Jul 7

Football and Brexit – Leadership and Niceness

This weekend, football, Brexit, leadership and niceness are intimately connected, it seems. Months of muddled leadership, not to mention David Cameron’s catastrophic original choice, lie behind the on-going problem of trying to integrate the loony Victorian public-school wing of the Conservative Party into how the hell we are going to managed this step backward without…
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May 19

To celebrate or mourn?

To celebrate or mourn, that’s the question, the only thing (according to Einstein) that was infinite apart from the universe – the stupidity of mankind. With teenagers murdered at the fence in Gaza and the climate going to hell, we are supposed to be ostriches celebrating the royal celebrity wedding. But there IS another coming…
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Mar 27

A psychohistorical and psycho-spiritual approach is needed to wade through the current anti-antisemitism hysteria

The common sense view points to racism as being more a feature of the Right than Left. If, like me, you remember the terrifying skinhead marches around the East End’s Brick Lane on a Sunday morning while you were enjoying a kosher hot-salt beef sandwich and the amazing market we had then, you’ll have had…
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Mar 24

Cambridge Analytica only the tip of an iceberg of British entitlement and duplicity?

We are right to be shocked at the scale of dirty dealings revealed by the only investigative reporting programme of mainstream media left, Channel 4 News. Now, surprisingly, the BBC is getting a bit geared up and has just broadcast the story of a shadowy figure, Old Etonian, Nigel Oakes, who has devoted his life…
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Mar 9

Kindle edition of ‘The Making of Them’ now available.

In response to one enquiry we had about making The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System available to visually impaired readers we commissioned a Kindle edition to be produced. It is now available here, and from various other sellers in different e-formats. Whatever its limitations and disadvantages, it…
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Mar 4

Same old, same old … how to understand the Rees-Mogg problem.

Do you sometimes wonder, if, when you have fallen asleep after watching the UK news, that you may have woken up in 1898 instead of 2018? Why is British politics and many of its chief actors so weird? The answer lies in how we educate our elite – not much differently to how we did…
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