by Nicola Morgan | September, 2018 | Education, Nicola Morgan
In the early days of positive psychology, there was a ‘neck up’ approach; how to be happy, how to live well, how to be ‘positive’. One of the ground-breaking pioneers in promoting a more holistic approach was Kate Heffron (Heffron, 2013) who started to consider the...
by Lee Newitt | April, 2018 | Education, Mindfulness
Children are amazing because they are mindful. When a child is shy they may express their feelings of shyness without fear, they are just ‘being’. They may be open to and aware of what they are experiencing in that moment without repression. Children start life...
by Bryony Shaw | January, 2018 | Bryony Shaw, Education
At the start of the year I can look back over the first term of teaching in the academic year, and this year I am very appreciative of an unexpected experience I had. In the autumn term I write references for my students who are applying to university. This is a time...
by Nicola Morgan | October, 2017 | Education, Nicola Morgan
Ancient wisdom has suggested that books can be therapeutic from Plato’s time through the enlightenment to modern day Bibliotherapy courses. Literary fiction has been a source of fascination for me since the eighties when my teacher announced that the study of...
by Kelly Seaward | September, 2017 | Education, Kelly Seaward
In a world of increasing pressure on teachers and their students it is very easy to fall into negativity when challenges are never ending and being thrown from all directions. Just as you move through one set of obstacles then the next ones are already in line to...
by Maggie Bevington | June, 2017 | Education
As the tragic news of the loss of life from terrorist attacks in the UK fills our TV screens, I continue to worry how this is affecting our children, both now and for their future lives. In my last blog, I described how when working with high school teens on ‘positive...
