Wellbeing Seminar

We were delighted to welcome, Alicia Drummond, founder of the The Wellbeing Hub and a psychotherapist who comes very highly regarded amongst the independent school community, to talk to parents, staff and local schools.

Alicia spoke to parents about supporting our children through giving them the safe space to develop resilience now and later, to support their development of the four key skills for future employment (social skills, initiative, creativity and critical thinking). Alicia delivered a raft of useful tips and tricks to make our lives better, from asking our children what they could do to help with daily routines around the house to giving them space for genuine down time and also to talking points to use around the table at mealtimes. Through evaluating the 'helicopter' style of parenting, Alicia reminded us all that competency breeds confidence and that we need to encourage our youngsters to be dependent with us rather than dependent upon us. Following her presentation, Alicia fielded many questions from the parents in attendance, thereby offering further support. 

Later on that day Alicia gave a presentation to staff from St Hugh's and other invited local schools on our roles in developing self esteem, self efficacy, self awareness and self management, in order to support the children in their developmental growth.