Katherine Weare

@GuardianEdu twitter.com/KatherineWeare… We will make progress when we stop framing this recurrent discussion as either/or. Of course causes are structural, but i) structures are made by people, and ii) we all need to cultivate understanding, and skills to tackle the causes, and to keep safe.

I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health | Sanah Ahsan theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@GregorWell @lfoulkesy @AdrianBethune @WillemKuyken @neilhumphreyUoM @Tamsin_J_Ford @Place2Be @OHID You might like to see our considered response of the Mindfulness Initiative, putting the crude and simplistic headlines Myriad produced in a broader evidence based context, which supports universal approaches - when implemented well.

@GregorWell @lfoulkesy @AdrianBethune @WillemKuyken @neilhumphreyUoM @Tamsin_J_Ford @Place2Be @OHID themindfulnessinitiative.org/myriad-response

@lfoulkesy This, and similar eye catching responses, is a massive simplistic overreaction in the light of just one study. We need to set it against a backdrop of 30 years of sound international work exploring the best way to implement universal and whole school approaches to wellbeing.

@AdrianBethune @GregorWell @lfoulkesy @WillemKuyken @neilhumphreyUoM @Tamsin_J_Ford @Place2Be @OHID really sound points Adrian.

@GregorWell @lfoulkesy @WillemKuyken @neilhumphreyUoM @Tamsin_J_Ford @Place2Be @OHID We know that schools and teachers have a major impact on student wellbeing. We also know that the waiting list for camhs is so big it's almost pointless joining the queue for a child who's struggling. So schools are an obvious place to triage and help kids in house...

Interesting article below shared by Myriad project lead @WillemKuyken

@MindfulNationUK @WillemKuyken We need both inner and outer connection of course. I would not want this to be either/or. 'Demand' less yes, but 'support' more, including through helping teachers and students develop their capacities both for resilience and to effect social change.

"MYRIAD: a useful contribution, even if the initial news headlines have been misleading" Read the initial reflections of the Mindfulness Initiative on the MYRIAD Project results: themindfulnessinitiative.org/myriad-response @GuardianEdu @tes @bbceducation

The MYRIAD study of mindfulness in schools is a useful contribution - but the simplistic news headlines are misleading. See the Mindfulness Initiative's initial reflections here themindfulnessinitiative.org/myriad-response

@MindandLifeEU @DalaiLama Should be excellent.

Join our @MindandLifeEU Dialogue with @DalaiLama - "Cultivating our Common Humanity admidst Uncertainty"! We will be LIVE on Facebook this Thursday, September 17, at 05:30 CEST: facebook.com/mindandlifeEU/

amazon.co.uk/Happy-Teachers… Excited to see this is now an audio book on Audible, currently free to read.

@HertsHuntSabs @CottesmoreHunt @LeicsRuralCrime @RutlandHerald @Mercury1712 @ChrisGPackham Nothing has changed with hunting. all the 'trail following' is just a smoke screen. as everyone except the government knows.

.@CottesmoreHunt out hunting baby foxes again this morning. This participant admitted they were ‘cubbing’, then changed wording to ‘out’ then deleted post. @LeicsRuralCrime @RutlandHerald @Mercury1712 @ChrisGPackham Edited screen recording in comments 👇

@WillemKuyken Agree structural change vital, but lets not make it either or. Inner and outer connection and all that. We don't want to undermine all the good work on mental health in schools for teachers and students.

To be more universally effective, efforts to prevent depression might ultimately need to demand less of teachers and kids, and focus more on poverty, violence, homelessness, food insecurity and other structural problems that affect children’s mental health.nature.com/articles/d4158…

@AnimalAid @Tras_los_Muros @Act4AnimalsEU shocking and totally unacceptable

Shocking undercover footage of ‘severely injured’ pigs released by @Tras_los_Muros. “These images testify to an enormous amount of suffering that should be prevented or mitigated, according to EU law...” Elena Nalon of @Act4AnimalsEU bit.ly/2IFZcRj

'The human stuff matters': heads call for a kinder school system post Covid-19 theguardian.com/education/2020…

Boris. The hunt for the covid 19 vaccine is “the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes”. So I guess as yet unborn children are expected to sort out the mess of #climatechange and #biodiversity destruction in their lifetimes then? If there is any planet left to sort…

Boris. The hunt for the covid 19 vaccine is “the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes”. So I guess as yet unborn children are expected to sort out the mess of #climate change and #biodiversity destruction in their lifetimes then? If there is any planet left to sort…

@VieEyePea @southamptonuniv Awhh thanks.