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Compassion is a WASTE OF TIME [until it isn’t] Heriot-Maitland & Taylor 2024 highlights how: teachers who were initially sceptical about CFC later became its strongest advocates (p16-18) Read more below ⬇️ #Edpsychs

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📢🎪 Announcing our festival theme! 'Lasting change through collective action' Our festival celebrates the power of people coming together. Community psychology teaches us that real change begins when communities lift each other up. Get your ticket now: festival.edpsy.org.uk #edpsychs

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Just finished reading The Safe Keep. I did not spot the twist coming... And it hit home with power. This book has layers.

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Caption competition

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My COMPASSIONATE REFLECTION resource was used by the wonderful Singing with Nightingales team. Feedback below: "It really helped us look at our role in the organisation through the lens of compassion, how we showed up for others, for ourselves, how others supported and... ⬇️

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#Coaching question of the day… 💭 For me, it’s: 1. Any kind of helping conversation: coaching, supervision, motivational interviewing or consultation 2. Creativity and project work - making things and leading things 3. Fun and playfulness with colleagues What about you #edpsychs ?

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ABOUT THIS WEEK 😍 Gardening 😍 Light training (feeling cold-y) 😍 Conversations with Manchester Uni about compassion 😍 Planning for running a mock viva 😍 Report writing 😍 Promoting The Compassionate Cohort

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Just published open access in Pastoral Care in Education. New review led by Nicole Alemoru looking at how #motivationalinterviewing is used in schools. Available at tinyurl.com/5n7y6s2x. #edpsychs

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I went to sleep cursing myself for being hasty, moving into a room without curtains, the light making it hard to nod off (at a time when I REALLY want to be sleeping well!) I woke up to this - and it all turned to gratitude 😍

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Have a GOOD Father's Day In 2024, Constellations Psychology completed research into the ingredients which facilitate good fathering in a project called FatherGOOD. Over 50 participants responded, sharing their diverse experiences and perspectives around fathering... ⬇️ 👀

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‘All of these binaries I once imagined were collapsed and eradicated with every shift I worked…’ I fired the questions at neurologist Pria Anand, author of new book #TheMindElectric. Repost for your chance to win a copy… have to say, I think this book is incredible. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Every community needs a Lisa ♥️

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This week I have been writing an article about a compassion-focussed model of Educational Psychologist practice... Using the draft as a prompt, I got this image 😍 Curious? You can sign up to a CPD workshop in Sept 2025 with this link: bit.ly/CFAforEPsSept2025

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Hackney Stand Up! Got my copy of Richard's wonderful book. If you are interested in place, belonging or gentrification... This is for you.

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Just finished. Sad, funny, beautiful.

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🌟edpsy hosts Dr Mary Stanley-Duke Join Mary next Tuesday to dive in to mediating learning - the psychology, its importance and how to do it. You'll leave with practical ideas to use to develop a child's learning skills. Info and booking here: edpsy.org.uk/event/edpsy-... #edpsychs

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📽️ The Compassionate Cohort 📽️ Take a minute to find out about this new group supervision offer, infused with compassion focussed approaches... ❤️ 5 places to facilitate close connection ❤️ imagery and practices to create the conditions for wise reflection AND... ⬇️

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Silhouette

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QUESTION? Are you interested in learning about a supervision model which is based on neuroscience and has been shown to increase perceived resilience? Check out this BRAND NEW training for Educational Psychologists ⬇️ Details and booking link on the flyer ⬇️⬇️

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The Compassionate Cohort is: ✨❤️ ✅ Compassion-focussed group supervision for EPs. ✅ Deeply psychological ✅ Sessions create the conditions for reflection, using grounding activities, visualisation & imagery. Read more / book⬇️ constellationspsychology.com/psychologists #Edpsychs

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I’ve had lots of messages about my Guardian article, in which I argued we should stop universal mental health lessons in schools. The messages have fallen into three categories, and I’m reflecting on this here because I think it exposes something interesting in the field (and research in general) 🧵

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❤️ Educational Psychologists ARE COMPASSION IN PRACTICE ❤️ Here is how: "Compassion is the awareness of suffering and distress... and the commitment to reduce and prevent it" (adapted from Gilbert, 2009). This is literally the process of a caring profession: Read on below ⬇️ 👀 ⬇️ #EdPsychs

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"The scent of basil filled the air and a cat rolled over..." Not your average supervision session, but one which was powerful. Constellations Psychology offers bespoke reflective practice, (including in kitchen gardens). Find out more: www.constellationspsychology.com/psychologists

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SO, ABOUT THE COMPASSIONATE COHORT✨❤️... 👀 Each cohort has 5 places, to facilitate deep connection. 👀 Cohort one filled up its first place last week 👀 So, there are only ❤️❤️❤️❤️ places left... Read more and book your place⬇️ constellationspsychology.com/psychologists #EdPsychs

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Looking at private school pupil numbers in the ISC census and they've fallen back to where they were in..... 2022. Not exactly the disaster many predicted....

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That moment when you lock the stairgate... and can't work out how to open it. Caring for children can be a wild ride, with lots of learning. Check out Constellations Psychology for support on the journey: resources, courses & consultation. www.constellationspsychology.com/families #EdPsychs ♥️

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Interested in using evidence-based approaches to create a Compassionate Kitbag to support your work as an Educational Psychologist? 🎒 ❤️ Here is a training workshop for Educational Psychologists in September ⬇️ Details and booking link on the flyer ⬇️⬇️ #EdPsychs

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Another anniversary. 17th May 2019 is Rosenshine In Action day. The little red booklet peaked at #17 in the book charts for all books which blew my mind. I think we’ve sold 200,000 copies of it … Enthusiasm for a short book led to the birth of the In Action series. amazon.co.uk/Rosenshines-Pr… >

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🍿VIDEO TIME 👀 Compassion focused approaches for Educational Psychologists in 45s⌛ 😍 Interested in learning how to add this approach into your supervision and reflective practice? Book onto our Supervision Skills workshop in September: 🔗bit.ly/CFAforEPsSept2025🔗 #EdPsychs

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Don't miss this TEPICC event tomorrow where Dr Tiffany Nelson will explore her thesis work - Autistic Masking & Intersectionality: Masking Black Autistic Girls in UK Education #edpsychs @tepicc1.bsky.social @drtiffanynelson.bsky.social

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ABOUT TODAY: 😍 Family walk 😍 Strength work at the gym 😍 Drafting a framework for compassionate parenting (!) 😍 Talking with an artist (RE: FatherGOOD ebook) 😍 Report writing 😍 Sunny run [heavy day]

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Holding the pain, healing together… Zeynep Yasar, a @bpsofficial.bsky.social Chartered Psychologist in Istanbul, on working as a woman with women survivors of trauma. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #MHAW25

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