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The art of standing still
Posted on February 9, 2015
So 2015 is well under way and we’re fast approaching half term. While I’m sure many a resolution has been made and broken by now, I’m caught wondering how we trundle through the years, decade by decade, missing the very tapestry that makes life so very….well…wonderful, diverse, delicious, painful, spectacular….(you fill in the blank). Meeting […]
Read MoreBeing ‘Present’: Being ‘mindful’
Posted on January 21, 2014
As a business-owning educational psychologist I am often tasked with a number of different types of activity within my working day. On one rainy Wednesday afternoon I found myself using a similar strategy within a consultation with a young man at a college and in thinking about the way I may approach my own business […]
Read MoreI wouldn’t change my job for the world
Posted on January 21, 2014
Last week I had one of the most humbling parental consultations I have ever experienced. Daniel is a young person with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), who attends college. I had previously met with his carer to gain informed consent for involvement but wanted very much to meet with his mother, with whom he […]
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