Empathy: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?
WHAT IS IT? Empathyɛmpəθi/ – noun – the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Essentially, having empathy means to be able to connect and experience the nature of someone or something outside of ourselves – or simply put, to step into somebody else’s shoes. WHAT IS ITS EFFECT ON US? When we experience empathy we […]
How Educators Influence Classroom Behaviour
When looking into what influences student behaviour in the classroom, many factors must be taken into consideration. Things like physical health, background, culture, home life and mental health can all have varying effects on a child’s ability to learn. Having said that, there are just as many, if not more factors contributing to that same […]
How to Maximise Your Leadership Skills Through EQ
Whether it was at work, in a sports team or working on a group assignment back in your university days, we’ve all met someone who you can immediately tell has exceptional aptitude to lead. On the other hand, it’s quite possible you’ve witnessed this from the other perspective. With poor leadership, quite often you will […]
5 Crucial Lessons I Learned as a Leader
I work across a few environments: when I’m not standing in front of educators or parents talking about wellbeing, I’m teaching the neuroscience of change in organisations, or helping facilitate week-long workshops in neuroscience and meditation, leading a group of 80 people within a wider group of up to 2000 participants. And, most importantly, parenting […]
The Importance of Developing a Sense of Belonging
Anybody who knows me knows how much I like to talk about belonging, particularly when it comes to our children’s mental health. A sense of belonging is crucial to our life satisfaction, happiness, mental and physical health and even longevity. It gives us a sense of purpose and meaning. Research has shown that loss of […]
Why A Sense of Belonging is Critical to School Wellbeing
Whether you’ve been a loyal reader of our blogs for years or recently joined our newsletter, you’ll notice that we place a strong emphasis on the concept of belonging, especially in relation to the mental health of our children. The importance of belonging cannot be overstated—it is essential for our overall life satisfaction, happiness, mental […]
3 Tips for Planning Wellbeing
Around this time of year, amidst the chaos of Term 4, we start to think about 2025. Enrolment numbers, staffing, classrooms, programs and …budgets. We recognise that our teachers are just hanging in there and that implementing anything new might just tip them over the edge. So, we make promises to ourselves that next year […]