Yehuda Tagar, assisted by colleague and fellow therapist Tessa Martina, was here to convince us of the value the Methodical Empathy approach, which draws on the transformative power of theatre, as well as various counselling and psychotherapeutic theories, and resonated for some with mindfulness-based compassion and meta-cognition.
Read MoreMethodical Empathy is a skill-based method of self-training which can be imparted to anyone with any level of starting point. It combines the objectives of self care, requiring ‘self-empathy’ with the objectives of understanding and caring for others, as the one cannot evolve without the other.
Read MoreResearch on young peoples’ perspectives on attempts to build resilience was undertaken within the voluntary sector, at an inner-city alternative education provision, catering for traumatised difficult-to-reach young people, and within the private sector, at the National Citizen Service, a Government initiative to engage a more cohesive society and enhance resilience in young people.
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Chris Cocking and colleagues were commissioned to discover the views of young people in East Sussex towards the notion of resilience and how they thought schools and youth services could improve their implementation of resilience building mechanisms for young people.
Read MoreWe conducted focus groups with around 100 young people in a variety of educational and youth settings across the County and asked them about how schools and youth services could help encourage increased resilience in young people with a view to providing recommendations for commissioning relevant services.
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