National Adoption week.
I don’t often talk about being adopted. This family was my family. But they’re not my birth parents. I was adopted in 1967 from Guernsey and I’m so grateful to Jean and David Bernard for making me their son. I’ve … Continued
We Rise By Lifting Others.
We rise by lifting others…or helping them to climb the ladder themselves. It’s my birthday today. I’ve been awake for a while reflecting on what I’ve been up to in the past 52 years and realise that for the first … Continued
You are more than your grades.
Start thinking about yourself. Something that can rarely be needed as an instruction to a teenager. Trouble is, most thinking at that time is focused on what your hair looks like, which trainers you want and how your selfie game … Continued
Reading to Grow.
I see summer as a chance to relax (a bit), to do things differently and to catch up on reading – to reduce the pile of books by the bed and challenge my thinking. Working with young people in educational … Continued
Cutting it fine…
Procrastination…I’ve been putting this blog off for a while. Some of us like to get ahead. Some of us like to get things done ‘in good time’. Some of us like to ‘cut it fine’. But…some of us wait until … Continued
Try, try and try again.
Boys DO Try. I’ve just started reading Boys Don’t Try? By Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts and by Page 5 and after the introduction by Mary Myatt I was already thinking about the Title…do boys try? If so, what do … Continued
Life is the way it is.
“Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. They way you cope with it is what makes the difference”. Virginia Satir. This quote is from one of the parents of Counselling and … Continued
Continuous Partial Attention: CPA or CBA?
Hello, How can you LAUNCH your Resilience? Recently there’s been a lot of talk about stress, wellbeing and resilience in education – there’s a lot of stress about generally due to austerity, uncertainty and changes in the social and political … Continued
Poor careers guidance is the enemy of personal fulfilment.
For anyone who follows me on Twitter @EnterpriseSBox or other Social Media, it will not be a surprise to learn that last week (4thto 9thMarch) was National Careers Week across the UK. We thought it was going to be a … Continued
Sending the ladder back down…
Sending the ladder back down. Those of you that know anything about me will know that my ‘career’ has been complicated, unplanned, drift-y and not at all linear. Why? Well, there are many reasons – chief among those are an … Continued