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Today I am speaking with Dick Moore on my podcast. We talk about with the current mental health crisis in schools and with young people. We talk about suicide, self-harming and the pressure that young people are under. What can we do?

Dick Moore has worked as an English teacher, rugby coach, boarding school housemaster and, for over twenty years, the headmaster of a co-educational day and boarding school.

He has a passionate interest in adolescent development and emotional wellbeing. He qualified as a Youth Mental Health First Aid Instructor in 2012 and joined the Charlie Waller Trust in 2012. He has also attended an ASIST Suicide Intervention course.

Dick now travels the country giving talks to teachers, young people and parents to help raise awareness of mental health issues.

I  would like for you to talk further about some of the following subjects:

1. Can you share a little about your own journey? What drew you into doing the work that you now do regarding mental health?
2. I would be really interested to hear you speak about suicide and suicide ideation. Why is this such a problem at the moment especially with young people? And especially young males?
3. The pressure young people are under. Do you feel that young people are under more pressure now than in our day, especially after the last 2 years? Why is this? What can we as adults support them? What can young people do to manage and handle this pressure better? 
4. I would love for you to speak a little about mental health in boarding schools. In your opinion, is there more pressure in a boarding school environment than a day school? One of my friends committed suicide while I was at boarding school. I saw the amount of pressure the boy was under and the lack of support. Has this changed since our day at boarding school?
5. Could you speak a little on male and female emotional honesty please? Do you feel that this has developed over the years or not?
6. I would love you to speak on the whole area of discrimination - in all walks of life…families, schools, friendships, businesses, race, creed, gender etc. etc.
7. How do we better support the young people? Especially in boarding schools where the houseparents are often under so much pressure. Is there something that we can set up in schools? In your experience what do you feel would work?
8. How do people learn more about what you do or reach out to you?

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthchildren #boardingschool

For more information about Dick's work and to invite him to speak at your school please visit:https://www.dickmoore.org/

To find out more about the Charlie Waller Trust: https://charliewaller.org/

A PDF spreadsheet about mental health: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b5791d_58764f25

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1

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For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

Unmarked graves, lost family members, and a reckoning long overdue – it’s a story familiar to Indigenous peoples in both Canada and the United States, where residential schools for native children ripped apart tribal nations. The US boarding school system was even more extensive than Canada’s, but much less is known about it, and its history is often surrounded by a culture of silence. So what will it take for a reckoning in the US?

In this episode: 

• Kavitha Chekuru (@KaviChek), producer for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines (@AJFaultLines)
• Denise Lajimodiere (@DLajimodiere), author and academic 
• Eleanor Hadden, descendant of boarding school students

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What makes Christmas different in the Philippines? How do we celebrate Christmas when we're so far away from home? For Filipino immigrants, Christmas is when we feel more sad and homesick. It can be especially challenging to feel like we're part of the celebrations back home. But even though we're away from our families and loved ones, we still create our own little Christmas traditions that make us feel close to home.

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In this episode, Dani discusses the differences between saying "yes" to ourselves and saying "no" to ourselves. She suggests how we can take back the power in these situations.

She recommends listening to The Cure for Chronic Pain E112: REAL-TIME HEAL- An Alcoholic Home, Fibromyalgia, and Social Anxiety for more about how emotional pains manifest into physical pains.

She also recommends listening to Witch, Please Book 4, E6: The Return of Pedagogy for more info on how schooling is used for assimilation and Indigenous Action E10: From the Ashes: Boarding/Residential Schools, Historical Trauma & Radical Reconnection to learn more about the horrors of residential/boarding schools and their history.

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 #17 AEM - An Evolving Man Podcast - Ben Cole - Transforming The Wound of Bullying - Tales of Boarding School Trauma & Healing 

Today I am speaking with Ben Cole on my podcast. This episode was a heart felt and for me a tearful one. 

Ben is a storyteller, cinematographer and director and he uses this gift to really share a heart-renching and transformational story. 

Ben shares how he attended boarding school from ages 11-13 in what was a really violent and unsafe environment. 

He shares how he was bullied and how he started to learn to cope with the bullies - by listening. 

For some viewers and listeners this episode might be upsetting and triggering. 

It is not an easy story to hear. 

Ben goes onto share how he has transformed this wound in the work that he now does with young offenders in the charity A Band of Brothers (ABOB). 

By him sharing his story with these young men, they learn to trust him. Of those young men that go through ABOB 86% stop offending and turn over a new leaf. This is the power of story. 

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 I found this episode profoundly moving and touching. 

Thank you Ben.

Some of the areas we covered: 
- His journey at boarding school and what went on with the bullying 
- How his parents responded to his pleas to come home. 
- How hurt people hurt people 
- How he feels being in service has been so healing for him 
- The power of the wound 
- How he has transformed this wound of bullying 

For more information about his work and A Band of Brothers please visit: https://abandofbrothers.org.uk/ http://bencolecinematographysite.com/ https://middleearthmedicine.com/ - Ben Cole is a film maker, documentary maker, and his filmography includes 1 Giant Leap and The Time of The Sixth Sun. He makes positive films about what it is like to be human. For him the ordinary man is the new guru. He was also an actor for 20 years. He also teaches the principles of the Mankind Project (MKP) of the 4 Archetypes. He also teaches The Wheel of Souls Return. He is also a mentor for A Band of Brothers which mentors young offenders. 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

Temple Grandin battles the ‘Good Old Boys Club’ like a superheroine. Her story inspires the new age playbook for overcoming obstacles for success.

In this episode, Temple Grandin is the featured Everyday Heroine from the movie ‘Temple Grandin.’ Temple is a great example of women's leadership with Autism.

The whole world is an obstacle for Temple, but she never lets it hold her back from a dream life. She meets her challenges with inspiration, grace, and grit while leaving the haters in the dust.

First, you discover how determined her mother is to educate her daughter. Her mother persistently teaches Temple on her own. She refused to listen to the doctors even after the Autism diagnosis.

Second, you find how important a great teacher can be during high school. Dr. Carlock also learns how to teach Temple. He teaches her by using pictures. He inspires Temple when he tells her to look at life as a series of doors that she can open to see what is on the other side.

Third, spending the Summer with a loving Aunt and Uncle gives Temple creative space. Living on the ranch gives her many chances to design and build mechanical projects. It also allows her to make a deep connection with cows. Most importantly she makes a connection from how a mechanical device can bring peace to an agitated animal.

During her higher education, she becomes immune to harsh teasing and bullying. She goes on to create huge success with her education, career, and life. Autism does not hold her back from anything and she shows the world what is possible through women's leadership with Autism.

Finally, the episode closes with the importance of the one strategy she used to grow:

• Recognize an opportunity in life as a door
• Then, decide to go through the door
• Lastly, see what is on the other side

Information presented in this episode was sourced from the movie ‘Temple Grandin.’ 

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On this episode, Cyrus is joined by the charminig Aditya Gupta, Founder and Managing Director at Life First, a company that has been in-charge of implementing COVID-19 restrictions and safety protocols on the sets and shoots of Bollywood movies and TV shows. Cyrus talks to Aditya about restrictions on sets, the many ways in which the virus could spread on a set if precautions aren't taken, how it's still not a fool proof method, why COVID shaming needs to be stopped, the importance of not cutting wages of workers if they contract the virus, and lots more.

They also discuss how long Aditya sees this going on till, the other fields like social gatherings, schools, and more where Life First's services could be and are being utilised, what happens when someone tests positive on set, why shoes are better on set compared to sandals and slippers, and tons more. Tune in for an entertaining and informative chat.

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In today's podcast I am interviewing Alex Renton who is the author of the book Stiff Upper Lip and producer of the ITV documentary Secret Shame about child abuse at boarding school.

Alex is a writer and journalist whose career has ranged from arts and food writing to politics and the investigation of child abuse. His career as a war reporter and development worker took him to the Middle East, Africa, East Asia and the Balkans. He has worked for The Independent, The Times, Newsweek, and the London Evening Standard and contributed to a host of other newspapers and magazines. He is also the author of the e-book Planet Carnivore: how cheap meat costs the earth (Guardian Shorts, 2015).

Alex has won many awards for his work in investigative journalism, conflict and development reporting and for food writing, including the One World Award and the Glenfiddich Trophy.

Born in Canada, educated in English boarding schools and at Exeter University, Alex now lives in Edinburgh with his wife, son and daughter.

Here are some of the questions that I asked him:

1. I would love for you to share your own boarding school journey and how things changed for you in 2013 with the article you read about child abuse at the boarding school you attended?
   
   
   
2. What are some of the insights that you have had from publicly sharing your journey? Have people in the main been critical or supportive of you?
   
   
   
3. I would love to hear what you have found out re boarding school and complex trauma. I am hearing people talk about PTSD and boarding school syndrome. What is your sense of this analysis?
   
   
   
4. What do you see are some of the main issues that we as ex-boarders present? e.g. relationship problems, emotionally shut down etc. 
   
   
5. My work is in helping people to heal from boarding school wounds. I would love to hear what you have found has helped others in the stories that you have heard? What has worked for you?
   
   
   
6. I love in your book how you talk about initiation (P.41). I would love to speak a little about how boarding school could be seen as an initiation – although not a healthy one. What could we do instead to help initiate boys and girls?
   
   
   
7. What is your vision for the future re boarding schools. Can we change the system? If so how do you feel we can change the system? Can we stop early boarding? What is the future of BS?
   
   
   
8. What are you doing next? How do people get in touch with you or get your book?

Alex also shared about the IICSA and said the following: “I think if we are going to get results out of it for children in residential care, in terms of solid safeguarding protocols and hard law to protect them and the whistleblowers, it will be largely because of Tom Perry's tireless work with mandatenow.org.uk

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

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Maria Dahvana Headley has dusted off Beowulf with a new translation and author of The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald, has a new thriller centred around a boarding school.

Founded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you could send your troubled teen so they could be rehabilitated and put back on the right track. But in reality, it was a cruel and chaotic nightmare where students were constantly being pressured to confess to things they’d done “wrong,” called “guilts,” which often were things as silly and not-wrong as having a crush on someone or smiling too much. At Elan, student was pitted against student in insane psychological mind-games and also pitted against each other physically. And most all of this was perfectly legal. It was considered healthy rehab! And the Elan School wouldn’t close until 2011. Today we use the Elan School as an excuse to explore the rise of the troubled teen industry in the US and how it all sprung out of a cult called Synanon. We also explore how the notion of childhood and parenting has been constantly changing for centuries in an attempt to rationalize why anyone would send their kid to the living Hell of a place like Synanon.

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This episode will cover: 

• Welcome to our first podcast guest—Max Van Arsdale (Vanessa's Husband)
• Harper's interesting souvenir from the Military Museum of North Florida
• Max starts watching WandaVision
• Secretly slipping food to the dogs
• "I would make you some breakfast, but I just cleaned the kitchen"
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In this episode, we chat to Millfield Prep Director of Boarding Carl Bingham, houseparent Menna Close and boarding pupils Eva, Alannam and Ale, who talk all about life as a boarder at Millfield Prep School and answer some frequently asked questions.