We like to give psychology away so people can use it in their daily lives
We receive messages every week asking for their favourite resources, so we have put them all together below.
We also run lunchtime sessions to help you understand and use our resources in the best way.
Our resources
The Circle of Care
This resource is all about exploring what helps you to experience wellbeing. It involves three simple steps, which could be completed in about 15 minutes.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Understand what helps keep you happy and healthy
Explore how to move from 'self care' towards a more communal approach to wellbeing
Create routines for promoting wellbeing in your life
Increase resilience
Increase ability to understand complex student behaviour
Increase the ability to give/receive compassion
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The Compassionate EP
A companion booklet for Educational Psychologists working using compassionate focussed approaches
This resource is all about helping you connect with and cultivate compassion in your work as an Educational Psychologist.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Develop a baseline understanding of how you are using compassion focussed approaches in your work.
Explore the compassionate competencies you have for understanding and alleviating suffering.
Reflect on how you are embodying the compassionate qualities of courage, wisdom and care in your work.
Create an action plan for cultivating compassionate qualities.
Map the way compassion is flowing in your life and work.
Develop a plan for more sustainable, nurturing work.
Understand what you need from the people in your team, to do your best work
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Creating Compassionate Characters
A booklet outlining an approach for supporting children’s mental health and learning.
This booklet is aimed at supporting you to create Compassionate Characters with children you are working with, to help them navigate the trickiness of learning and life.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Facilitate children to cultivate a sense of the courageous, wise and caring parts of themselves.
Use activities and scripts to help children create characters using externalizing and imagery.
Collaborate with children to create plans for how the characters you have created can support them with tricky situations in the classroom, at breaktime and at home.
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Compassionate Reflection
This resource is all about helping you reflect, avoiding our negativity bias and focussing on celebrating moments of connection, courage and wisdom. It involves eight questions, which could be completed in about 20 minutes.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Reflect in a way which will feel meaningful and supportive
Highlight memories of connection and contentment, within your busy life.
Recall moments of courage and wisdom from your work
Explore the flows of compassion in your life (from you to others, others to you and self compassion)
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Reflecting on Relationships - in teams and organisations
This resource is all about helping teams to do better work. It involves five simple activities, which could be completed in about 30 minutes.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Understand what you need from the people in your team, to do your best work
Explore how to feel accepted in your team
Balance the needs of different team members
Redesign systems for line management
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Psychological Safety -
in teams
This resource is all about helping teams to do better work: by facilitating everyone to be brave and wise in their work. It involves four activities, which could be completed in about 45 minutes.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
understand what you need from your team, to do your best work
explore how to feel accepted in your team
balance different ways of working within your team
redesign systems for collaboration
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Wheel of Compassion
A self-coaching tool to help you to centre compassion in your work, so that you can do your best, more sustainably. It involves one simple activity, which can be completed in about 10 minutes.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Track how courageous, wise and caring you have been lately
Explore how you have been giving and receiving compassion
Create an intention for how you would like to bring even more compassion into your work
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How was your day?
This resource is all about supporting adults to help children
talk about their day… “how was your day?” is not working. We can do better than “fine!
This resource has conversation starters which adults can use, to help children open up and share about how their day was.
It has three sections, one for each of the school stages in the UK: primary, secondary & 16+
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Connect with your child
Learn more about what your child likes and values
Understand what they are working on at school
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Motivated Children in Schools
This resource is all about helping staff use evidence-based practice to cultivate student’s intrinsic motivation. It involves three sections, scripts for use in class and a vignette table to bring it all to life.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
See more intrinsically motivated children and use less rewards in your setting.
Understand the three needs which facilitate intrinsic motivation.
Receive clear examples of what autonomy, relatedness and competence look like for students.
Explore options for helping students feel intrinsic motivation in different lessons.
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Reflect and Connect
This resource is all about helping adults to connect with their child and meaningfully join in with their play. It involves two exercises, which can happen alongside play.
This resource could be useful if you want to:
Connect with your child
Build trust and emotional connection
Nurture empathy, social and emotional awareness
Boost confidence
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