Gillian Bridge
As leaders, what is the greatest gift you can give in addition to developing academic achievement, that of developing Resilience in our children.
Following on from the success of the 2014 RPHA Resilience for School Leaders Conference, Gillian Bridge, a leading expert in the field of the human brain, language and behaviour, will talk about the overwhelming importance of resilience in life.
Gillian will explain how the ability to delay eating a marshmallow at age three proves to be a better predictor of success in life than any underlying IQ!
Qualified as a teacher of English and as an Addiction Therapist, she has worked in prisons and in Harley Street, and on the other side of the behaviour coin, with City CEOs and with Sandhurst academics.
The author of two (shortly to be three) books, and several articles on the neurobiology of behaviour, with appearances on TV and radio, she brings fluency and colour to the provocative, and even challenging talks which she gives to schools and educational conferences around the country.
Behaviour changing, not to say game changing, the focus of her work (which is always supported by the latest scientific evidence) is on ways in which brain development and language use may determine our whole understanding and experience of life, as well as our forms of behaving and communicating.
Today she divides her time between working therapeutically with clients who have a range of cognitive disabilities, and in training young people, their teachers and parents in emotional and behavioural resilience.
Gillian is renowned for creating tailored and hugely practical and applicable advice and skills training for schools, their leadership teams, teams and whole school communities. Discover for yourself how to develop more responsive minds, more resourceful pupils, more integrated teams – and, more importantly greater resilience and happiness all round.
Discover for yourself how to develop more responsive minds, more resourceful pupils, more integrated teams - and, more importantly, greater resilience and happiness all round.
