Effective Learning and Mental Wellbeing

This book is a crucial resource, filled with ready-to-use and thought-provoking activities that support wellbeing within your school, college, organisation, community group, or on your own.

Sarah Philo is a cognitive behavioural therapist working with people experiencing difficulties including depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She is especially interested in the role of compassion both in supporting positive wellbeing and in creating supportive and safe places to learn. She is undergoing training to also practice as an eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapist. John Senior is a visiting researcher at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology of the Hungarian Academy. His research concerns the impact of mental health issues affecting Human Intelligence (HI) and the potential psychodynamic mental health issues of Gifted Artificial Intelligent Machines (GAIM).

1. Everybody is a learner; 2. Mental health and self-efficacy; 3. Steps to Mental Wellbeing; 4. Wellbeing in the connected learning community; 5. Wellbeing and learning in a COVID-impacted world; 6. Wellbeing and learning on your own; 7. The future of wellbeing and learning - your impact on the world; 8. Learning to be well