#edpsychs and #edusky who saw Justin’s brilliant talk at our EPMC Community Learning Day earlier this year - sub to BISH to support this vital work

“If you learned through being lectured at, you’re going to do that with yourself, your parts, and with clients. But if somebody helped you trust your own Self, you’re going to help your client trust their own Self.” - Richard Schwartz - #IFS

Day 3 of training our wonderful Portsmouth ELSAs - Lego Therapy one of the tools in their toolbox for supporting communication and regulation 🌟

“The wellness industry cannot sell a solution for ecological collapse. There is no supplement for late-stage capitalism. No app for intergenerational wounds..So these collective realities get reframed as individual pathology. Your accurate response to an insane world becomes your disorder to manage”

Talking team wellbeing with some wonderful input about the PERMA model from Liz and Issy, following their attendance at the Positivitea conference in January @positivitea-eps.bsky.social @fionacoley.bsky.social 🌱✨

‘The somatic literature speaks of “the body” as if bodies aren’t raced, classed, gendered in ways that produce different conditions and therefore different shapes. None of this can be “released.” The architecture isn’t historical artifact—it’s current construction, being reinforced daily…’

Welcome news today that the government is investing in expanding the EP workforce to enable proactive early intervention support👇🏻 www.tes.com/magazine/new... #EdPsychs

To be taught by these two legends..!

Bearing Witness #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking

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... Continued below...

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.

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"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)

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 www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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)

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 ~~

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

what if instead of stepping out of my comfort zone I step into an even comfier zone. perhaps take a nap in a large fluffy dinner roll.

IFS therapists are encouraged to develop a good relationship between their Self and Self-like parts (often ‘therapist parts’) who inevitably act as an agent of the status quo. In contrast, the Self is an agent of change and healing. Sweezy, 2017

Play ❤️

📋 New project page Anita and Ruth are working to develop a tool designed to promote refection on psychological safety, within supervision. To participate you can trial using the tool and then complete a survey. More info here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/pr... #edpsychs #supervision

#decolonise #edpsych #therapy "Therapy is not-and has never been-neutral." Dr Jennifer Mullan speaks about decolonising therapy. 22nd Nov 25 online, donation based. Promises to be a powerful event, if want to seriously decolonise psychology. we.scienceandnonduality.com/offers/RBJQY...

Parents and Carers of Portsmouth: this is a free community event delivered by a range of mental health services, including one of our EPs Dr Issy Cone. Lots of interesting and informative workshops including neurodiversity, anxiety and EBSNA. Plz share with your networks 🙏🏼 #edpsychs #edusky

Get your tickets now! www.eventbrite.com/e/epmc-commu...

Read this entertaining and short fiction on holiday. Themes of neurodiversity and “normality” - I enjoy writing that challenges cultural ideas about what a good life is, and Murata does this with humour & authenticity. Unfortunately the book fell into the pool - good even when read soggy.

Thrilled to announce our first speaker for PositiviTEA Well-being Wonders 2026: Dr Ahmar Ferguson @drfergy.bsky.social will be sharing ideas on how to contract and facilitate supervision for school staff well-being ✨ #edpsychs @maxpurpose.bsky.social @positivitea-eps.bsky.social

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads , and as we pass through them they prove to be many-coloured lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus”