Dismayed at the male/female breakdown of some of the personal development type workshops I run at QUB, I was thinking something along the lines of… Young men are not so interested in personal development, what might prick their ears..?  Aha!  Name the course after a Star Wars theme!  The ideas and techniques are similar, so that might make them think…

I got more than he bargained, when it all kicked off on Tuesday last week.  Not only did the News Letter pick up on the quirky workshop title, but the Stephen Nolan Show wants to interview me at some point and the BBC NI published an online article!  Then there was the ‘photoshoot’ with the South and North Belfast News, the radio interviews with Radio Foyle and Citybeat…

Finally, and most surprisingly of all, the Guardian Educational Supplement hot on the heels of the Times Educational Supplment phoned for further information, in order to put together an article.

If you’d like to book a place on the workshop at QUB, please click for details – Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way (15/11/08).

Watch this space for a hooded Jedi near you!