Is it just self-indulgent navel-gazing or is counselling necessary for our emotional health?  Sally Brampton investigates

 Is it just self-indulgent navel-gazing or is counselling necessary for our emotional health?  Sally Brampton investigates

 Is it just self-indulgent navel-gazing or is counselling necessary for our emotional health?  Sally Brampton investigates

 Is it just self-indulgent navel-gazing or is counselling necessary for our emotional health?  Sally Brampton investigates

But you may also think that social entrepreneurship is about passion, determination and vision; that opportunities and challenges will present themselves along the way and you will be able to adapt and react instinctively. You may feel that things are bound to change as you grow your social enterprise, or that your idea is still evolving. So is planning really that necessary? The simple answer is: yes.

How do former enemies — or simply victim and perpetrator — reconcile after acts of extreme violence? It's an extremely difficult path but not impossible, as Jo Berry and Patrick Magee show

Last night, twenty-five years and a day after the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in an attempt to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and other members of the British government, the man who planted that bomb and the daughter of one of those he killed shared a platform in the UK Parliament. 

The full transcript of the meeting — jointly hosted by The Forgiveness Project and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues — will be published shortly.  But earlier in the day they gave an extended joint interview to the BBC World Service. Listen by clicking 'Read More'.

On 21 September 2009, at more than 2600 events in 135 countries across the globe, hundreds of thousands of people joined together to issue a deafening wake-up call to world leaders on climate change 

Visit the Global Wake-Up Call website here and have a look at the video below.