Online event/webinar

Compassionate schools: A whole school approach to wellbeing

Wednesday 17th October at 3pm BST

About the webinar:

Emotional wellbeing is affected not only by our internal world of thoughts and feelings, but also by our social interactions and the culture of the organisation we belong to. Increased levels of compassion within an organisation can help all members to thrive, achieving optimum levels of creativity, motivation and performance. This webinar will show how a compassion-focused approach to wellbeing was introduced into a UK school, with the aim of improving the emotional wellbeing of both staff and students.

About the speaker:

Kate is an Independent Clinical Psychologist and school Governor. She completed her first degree at Cambridge University and followed this with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. After a career break, she returned to the profession as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University in Psychology and Counselling before setting up her own private clinical practice in 2014. In her day job, she supports children with complex needs in both mainstream and special schools. She has a longstanding interest in education and became involved in school governance in 2015, as a founding Trustee of the Morris Education Trust. She currently sits on the local governing body of Impington Village college, where she has worked with school leaders to develop a compassionate approach to wellbeing for both staff and students.