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Why Your Child Might Seem Different at Home After Boarding School
Every summer, we hear a version of the same concern from parents: "my child seems different since they've been home."
It's a pattern worth understanding rather than worrying about. In our latest article, we explore the psychology of reverse culture shock in young people returning from boarding school, including the increase in risk-taking behaviour some parents notice, the friction between siblings adjusting to shared space again, and what actually helps in those first few we
When Control at Work Follows You Home: Parent Coaching for High-Achieving Parents
Many of the parents we support are senior professionals or high-performing athletes themselves, used to precision, control, and high standards in their own lives.
Those same instincts, when they follow a parent home, can quietly reshape family life without anyone intending it. Checking homework twice. Asking about revision before saying hello. Holding every outcome a little too tightly.
Our latest article looks at this pattern in detail and why it shows up so often among high
Boarding Staff Wellbeing: Why Capability Matters as Much as Care
We hear a lot about supporting boarding staff through better rotas and protected time off. Both matter. But they miss something important: whether staff have actually been given the skills for the emotionally demanding work they do every evening. Our new article looks at why boarding staff wellbeing depends as much on capability as on rest, why supervision belongs in boarding the way it already does in clinical professions, and what schools across the UK and Europe are starti
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Unlocking Your Leadership Potential: Clarity, Energy, and Bold Visioning
Unlock your leadership potential with clarity, energy management, and bold visioning. Learn how to lead with focus and resilience.
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Energy Management for Leaders: How to Boost Productivity and Prevent Burnout
Discover why energy management for leaders - not just time management - is the key to success. Learn how to recharge and prevent burnout.
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Burnout in Leadership: How to Spot It and What to Do About It
Burnout shouldn't be the norm for leaders. Learn how to spot it, prevent it, and lead with resilience. It's time to take control!
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5 min read
3 Proactive Strategies for Stress Management and Resilience Building to Improve Your Wellbeing
How we handle pressure & stress is down to our resilience. Here are three proactive things you can start today that increase resilience.
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Preventing Burnout; How Organisations Can Help Employees
Introduction The workplace can be tough. Between work-life balance, long hours, and demanding managers, it's no wonder why employees...
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4 min read
How To Switch Off, Relax & Enjoy Your Holiday (Without Worrying About Work)
You've planned your rough itinerary (even if it's lying on a sun lounger for a week), booked the tickets, packed your suitcase and set...
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3 min read
6 Practical Ways To Reduce Stress In The Moment
When it comes to reducing stress, there's loads of advice out there. From improving your sleep quality, doing yoga, practising meditation...
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5 min read
Why Leader's Emotional and Mental Wellbeing Should Be a Priority
Firstly, let me start by saying that, of course, everyone's emotional and mental wellbeing is important. We should all be taking action...
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4 min read
6 Self-care Tips For People With Stressful Jobs
Work-related stress, depression or anxiety is defined as a harmful reaction people have to undue pressures and demands placed on them at...
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6 min read
The Four Day Week; Is It The Future Of Work?
Social isolation, combined with remote working has blurred the lines between home and work. And there is a temptation for employees to do...
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3 min read
5 Tips To Stop Feeling Stuck And Find Your Purpose In Life
Contents 0 - How Satisfied Are You At Work? 1 - Identify Your Personal Core Values (And Live By Them!) 2 - Explore Your Character...
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7 min read
Why It's Important To Know Your Strengths
Almost anyone is the world who has had an interview has been asked that dreaded (and let's face it, entirely pointless) question, "So,...
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6 min read
Thank God It's Monday!
A Strategy To Improve Wellbeing At Work Work forms a significant part of most peoples lives. In fact, between Monday and Friday, we spend...
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10 min read
HOW TO SET AND MAINTAIN BOUNDARIES
One issue that comes up time after time with clients is how to set and maintain personal boundaries. Quite often it comes up when clients...
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4 min read
Is Work Life Balance Achievable?
Work-life balance. A phrase we hear all too often, and in my opinion it sends completely the wrong message. It implies that some kind of...
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4 min read
Why Coaching Works
A Broad Industry If you're reading this, you probably already have some idea about what coaching is. If you need a little bit more info,...
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21 Best Books on Positivity for 2021
On a cold, wintry day, what’s better than curling up under a blanket with a good book? In my mind it’s what the word hygge was created...
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5 Ways You Can Improve Your Wellbeing At Work
In an ideal world, wellbeing at work would start with the employer. Why should employers care about wellbeing? Well, research tells us...
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6 min read
Eco-psychology: The Science Behind How Spending Time in Nature Benefits Your Health and Wellbeing
Throughout lockdown, we were encouraged to spend an hour outside undertaking some form of physical exercise - something we all know...
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3 min read
How to Recognise & Overcome Burnout
Stress. We use the term negatively most of the time, even though stress is what has kept us alive as humans for thousands of years. It's...
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