useful links:

 

www.contextualscience.org

Set up in 2005, the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS) is dedicated to the advancement of functional contextual cognitive and behavioural science and practice so as to alleviate human suffering and advance human wellbeing.

 

https://compassionatemind.co.uk/

Set up in 2006 it aims to promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion. 

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvtZBUSplr4

TED talk by Kirsten Neff about the importance of Compassion. 

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlk6xD_xAQ

Richard Burnett is co-founder of the Mindfulness in Schools Project. With Chris Cullen and Chris O'Neill, Richard wrote the highly-acclaimed 9 week mindfulness course, .b (pronounced dot-b), designed to engage adolescents in the classroom. He is a teacher and Housemaster at Tonbridge School, the first school in the UK to put mindfulness on the curriculum, an event covered by press, TV and radio in early 2010. 

 

www.edutopia.org/lucas-goleman-social-emotional-video

George Lucas joins a panel of national experts moderated by Daniel Goleman that explores the value of social and emotional learning.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

Jon Kabat-Zinn leads a session on Mindfulness at Google.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5UWEgC0A4c

Russ Harris talking on Australian TV about the Act approach. 

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