by Maria Brosnan | Jul 23, 2021 | Podcast
“I love moaning! The only rule is – if you moan about something, you’ve got to have an idea about a better way of doing it. If you haven’t got an idea on how to make it better, then your moaning is just demoralising people, making everyone feel bad,...
by Maria Brosnan | Jul 16, 2021 | Podcast
“Every decision I made that was ill-informed meant that people were losing a little bit of faith in me.” Dan Edwards is the principal of Woodstock Primary Academy, a large primary school in the heart of Leicester City. He shares the best piece of advice he was ever...
by Maria Brosnan | Jul 9, 2021 | Podcast
“Work is somewhere I go to do something I’m good at, but it’s not who I am.”What does an ex-police office know about teacher stress? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Tom Wheelhouse founded Mightify in 2015 because he wasn’t willing to...
by Maria Brosnan | Jul 3, 2021 | Podcast
“People can spend their lives with an emotional bully in their head, constantly undermining them, constantly putting them down, constantly judging themselves, and then they wonder why they’re depressed!” Paul Gilbert is a Professor of Clinical...
by Maria Brosnan | Jun 26, 2021 | Podcast
“I teach teachers to help children cope with difficult feelings. Difficult emotions can give us important messages if we’re unafraid to hear and them and feel them, without becoming utterly overwhelmed by them.” Julie Hurst is a Positive...
by Maria Brosnan | Jun 18, 2021 | Podcast
“We have the potential to lead stress-free lives. We know that it’s possible because we have evidence and training.” Professor Jo Clarke is a former Forensic Psychologist and worked in the criminal justice (prison) system for 23 years....
