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Download article as a PDF Greetings from 2040! You probably won’t recognise how schools function these days. By the end of 2024 we realised we had to redesign schools to meet the needs of a new generation of young people. The warning signs for us by 2024 included 20% of students not completing schooling, [...]
Download article as a PDF Much of the recent literature on adolescent girls focuses on rising levels of anxiety, body image concerns, and social pressures. While these challenges are real and should not be dismissed, an equally important narrative risks being under-acknowledged: teenage girls are idealistic, perceptive, creative, and powerful. In schools, homes, and communities, [...]
Download PDF here! Imagine for a moment that we were doing a hypnosis session. The imagery of the session absorbs your mind, you feel calm and safe. You are on a delightful inner journey. There may be challenges to encounter that absorb you and enchant you and you may be on a quest to [...]
Download PDF here! This is the fifth & final paper in this series. Previous papers discussed the ‘forming’, ‘storming’ ‘norming’ & ‘performing’ stages of classroom lifecycles. Transitions are times of loss as well as times of opportunities. We often don’t mark the ending or the completion of our important relationships well. This can [...]
Download PDF here! If you have ever looked at a test or exam paper and thought, ‘I know that I know this, but I can't remember anything’, if you have ever stayed awake in the middle of the night worrying about an exam the next day, if you have ever felt butterflies in your [...]
Download PDF here! This is the second paper on motivation. The previous paper focused on creating & regulating a dopamine-based classroom. One of the characteristics of neurodivergent kids that I admire is, if they don’t see a point to doing something they won’t do it. End of story. Most of them are harder to [...]
Download PDF here! Motivation is a slippery customer. Just when you want to rely on it, it puts its feet up, takes a few days off & generally wants to be about as active as a sloth on long service leave. Your ‘get up & go’ has ‘got up & gone’. A Slightly Potted [...]
The most recent research on brains & learning shows that we all have different patterns of processing information. This confers upon the human race a great advantage, in that collectively we are smart in different ways. Some people are more ‘neurotypical’ while others think in vastly different ways. This means that we need to focus [...]
While the pandemic years have challenged us all, the effects have been especially severe for girls and young women. They are the most likely to experience the ‘disorders of distress’- anxiety and depression and for some, self- harm, and body insecurity. I want to combine the conversations I have been having in my therapy [...]
Andrew Fuller Increasing wellbeing is easiest when an entire school or community take it on as a core aim. It is easiest when wellbeing becomes everybody’s business. Together let‘s aim to make wellness contagious. Download article as a PDF Awareness and Metacognition Very few of us are as consistently observant of our own wellbeing [...]
