Louisa Thomas

DfE commits £26m to recruit more educational psychologists Funding for hundreds more educational psychologists announced amid concerns that specialists are spending too much time on admin rather than supporting children

Welcome news today that the government is investing in expanding the EP workforce to enable proactive early intervention support👇🏻 www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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To be taught by these two legends..!

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Bearing Witness

#monoprint Acrylic on Paper

#art #printmaking

UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal

Finally a little sanity and justice 🙏🏼🇵🇸

Good parenting involves Self-parenting - as eloquently described here by Covey (1989)

"Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times"

#bg3 #baldursgate3 #art

We kind of SHOULD be overwhelmed right now!

There's a lot of overwhelming stuff going on, so if you're struggling with that, it's not a YOU problem...

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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each

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An old tree amidst trees in winter blue starry sky

"All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one grows tired of suffering - this is the way to purity"

The Dhammapada

It takes an estimated 400 repetitions to learn something thru traditional classroom methods but only 10-20 times to learn through “dedicated play” (Purvis). We desperately need more capacity and space for play, choice and creativity in our classrooms (and wider world)

Educational psychology within the polycrisis | BPS Dr Dan O’Hare and Dr Louise Edgington call for commitment and action.

We're in a polycrisis that threatens the conditions that sustain human life and wellbeing.

We must decide, as educational psychologists, not IF, but HOW we will adapt.

Silence is no longer tenable and incrementalism is not sufficient

#edpsychs #climatecrisis

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Interest-based curiosity is the doorway that leads us out of anxiety and into creativity, which helps us to solve problems in practical ways (Beck, 2024)

By natures I mean- what’s true and alive in: our bodies/minds (our internal systems), between ppl in the groups/systems we’re part of and in nature more broadly (the wellbeing of mother earth)

Culture often pushes us towards deprivation- over interest curiosity, unless our interests conveniently fit the culture. The more we drop our interest curiosity, and pick up deprivation curiosity, the more we’ll unquestioningly support the social hierarchy and ignore its impacts to our natures…

Litman (2005) identified two types of curiosity; the first, ‘deprivation curiosity’ is a worried need to know, stemming from lack of information about how to feel safe (e.g., how to get enough money to survive), and the second ‘interest curiosity,’ comes from the innate sense of wanting to know.

We spend so much time and energy on staying regulated, becoming calm, as if that is the goal. To have just enough calm to cope, just enough energy for performing. Who would we be if calm was a stepping stone we jumped from? Calm not as destination but necessary prerequisite for creativity and play.

Wise words as always from Ailey Joley. Here’s to less time consuming and more time organising, creating, resting and inhabiting our lives 💖✨

Snapshot of our ‘dream’ as part of our anti-discriminatory practice PATH that we did as part of our EP Team Day last week…a very fruitful day and we’re taking our first steps this week. We love a PATH! ✨ #edpsychs

Really moving day so far. Bringing some much needed realisations and intentions for action within me and my colleagues who are attending. Thank you @eps4change.bsky.social

As we approach the New Year and are being bombarded with ads that promise life changing new habits in 21 days (for a subscription package of course!) here's a little PSA for you.

Happy New Year! 🎇
#newyear #happynewyear #newyearnewgoals #motivation

What we call ‘normal’ is a chaotic version of survival mode, and it’s not fun. So taking time to orient ourselves every single day, to retune ourselves to the creative and adventure modes of the game of life. Eurgh, Martha Beck - I love her ❤️

We are back again running our reflective spaces for Black and Global majority applicants. Eventbrite links will be up next week if you check back in soon. Drop us a line on our TEPICC socials if you have any questions #edpsychs please share!

People will not give you what you deserve. They will give you what they’re capable of giving, and their capacity is not a measure of your worth.

Eek! My first podcast appearance 👀 I strongly believe that #edpsychs deserve to enjoy their work.

We spoke about ways to support EPs who may be feeling disillusioned, disconnected and/or isolated.

Really hoping this sprinkles a little positivity and hope for any EPs feeling glum out there 🚀 💖 ✨

Here’s to some brighter days heading our way ✨

So you can burn all of your words and live a life of quiet,
Think ‘now I won’t be criticised, now I’m safe from violence’
But you’ll be at the funeral and have nothing to read,
And goodness dies in silence, so I think you should speak. ❤️

~~ Lucas Jones ~~