A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
Tara Gretton and Vicky Essebag
Transform your relationships at school - with your students and peers, and in life - with your family, friends and colleagues. Enjoy conversations about prioritizing communication with an intentional approach to healthy and inclusive relationships. Tara Gretton and Vicky Essebag are experienced solution-focused practitioners and instructional leaders with a background in education, social work and family therapy. Tara (UK), and Vicky (Canada), enjoy sharing their thoughts and reflections - across the pond. Join them during their regular chats as they interview amazing leaders and share their insights and expertise. You will love their energy, inspiration and compassion as they promote well-being in productive relationships for ALL. Check out their youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@Relationspaces) for their Relationspaces Power Bursts. These are short video clips during which Tara and Vicky ask a relationship-based question which they answer using their solution-focused expertise, and in under 10 minutes.
Tara Gretton is the founder of Solution Revolution. She fell in love with the Solution-Focused (SF) approach in 2002. Tara is on a mission to share the magic of the SF approach with schools, children, young people and families. She also feels passionately about young people’s voices being heard and loves to train young people in the solution-focused approach. Tara also enjoys working with musicians, actors and breath workers where they bring the magic of SF and the arts together. https://www.solutionrevolution.co.uk/.
Vicky Essebag is an experienced educator, school leader, family therapist and certified solution-focused coach. As a relational comnmunication specialist, she is widely known for teaching solution-focused practice to support effective communication for ALL. Vicky inspires and motivates parents, schools and organizations to cultivate and strengthen relationships that are grounded in equity, inclusion, success and well-being. She is author of Relationspaces; A Solution-Focused Handbook for Parents, and Founder of the coaching and consulting company - Relationspaces- www.relationspaces.com.
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An Interview with Gaia - A Trans Woman; On Self-Discovery, Activism & Empowering Others
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
12/07/23 • 45 min
In this episode, Tara Gretton and Vicky Essebag have the pleasure of interviewing Gaia, a 21-year-old diversity activist based in Bristol, U.K., who works as an LGBTQ+ Team Coordinator for The Diversity Trust. Drawing on her own experience and expertise as a Trans Woman, she delivers LGBTQ+, and specifically Transgender Awareness training. She also leads the local LGBTQ+ groups Alphabets Youth and Alphabets Adults. Gaia was trained in the Solution Focused Approach by our very own Tara whilst attending Beechen Cliff School, where she discovered the power of Solution Focus in empowering marginalised communities, and in inspiring young people to grow into the best versions of themselves. Welcome Gaia!
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Interview with Carolyn Albanese on Well-being & the Impact of Mental Health Stigma on Relationships
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
11/05/23 • 53 min
In this new episode, Tara and Vicky have the pleasure of interviewing Carolyn Albanese. Carolyn is an experienced educator, guidance counsellor and school administrator. She is a passionate mental health and wellbeing advocate, supporting women who have experienced mental health trauma and/or abuse and are looking to change their life path. She is a leader in equity, inclusion, wellbeing and human rights for all, as an Education Officer for the Ministry of Education of Ontario. In her spare time, Carolyn enjoys playing the piano and drums, hiking and travelling with her family, and visiting family in Italy. Carolyn shares her personal story with us, providing insight into the silence that can exist in family relationships, to avoid dealing with and supporting mental health. She shares her journey of discovery and self-compassion. Stay tuned for the new year when Carolyn returns to discuss mental health stigma as it relates to equity and inclusion.
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Interview with Meg Durham from the School of Wellbeing Podcast
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
10/25/23 • 46 min
In this episode, Tara and Vicky interview a special guest - Meg Durham, from the School of Wellbeing Podcast. Meg's podcast has gained much popularity and notoriety in the past couple of years. Meg is a teacher with experience in primary and secondary education across Australia, and a specialist in the field of wellbeing education. She is an instructional leader, public speaker, coach and mentor. Meg founded 'Open Mind Education' in 2013 with a vision to share meaningful wellbeing education with staff, parents and broader school communities. In this episode, Meg talks about the importance of prioritizing one's own well being as an educational leader, to be more successful at addressing daily challenges and all relationships. Meg, it was a joy to have you on board! Thank you!
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Noticing What Works
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
06/20/23 • 25 min
In this episode Tara and Vicky talk about how noticing what works in relationships positively changes the way in which we think about and act on relationships. Noticing what works also empowers and inspires us to access our personal resources and to help motivate others to do so as well.
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An Open SUMMERY Conversation
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
07/23/23 • 25 min
A change of perception can be life altering. How willing are we to invest in a change of perception that isn’t immediate? In this next podcast episode, Tara and Vicky embrace the summer as they share stories that point to slowing down the hectic pace of life. How do we manage to do so? What are some unique ways in which to observe these helpful differences? What do we notice about how these differences improve our daily lives?
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Forming Relationships in Schools
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
06/30/23 • 24 min
Schools are academic spaces, yet they are also social spaces, where individuals have an opportunity to engage with each other and to establish long term relationships that have an impact their own lives and on school climate. Schools are fairly unique as social systems in that they involve a wide range of roles and responsibilities as well as ages. Tara and Vicky speak to some of the many ways in which we can encourage respectful and healthy relationships in this socially vibrant arena - both one on one (e.g. teacher and students, administrators to teachers) and on a larger scale, as we look to the impact of relationships on the whole school community.
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Being Present
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
03/13/23 • 18 min
Tara and Vicky talk about the importance of an intentional approach to bringing our best selves to relationships.
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Personal Wellness Through Breath Work; An Interview with Jacqui Storm
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
01/16/24 • 44 min
Tara and Vicky had the pleasure of interviewing Jacqui Storm. Jacqui shines a light on the vital relationship we have with our minds and bodies. She has been on a life journey for personal health and believes that all human beings have an inner healing intelligence. She helps people to access this through self-help and preventative therapy. Jacqui explores how the breath empowers and how it compliments solution-focused work. She sees a strong link between back pain, emotions and nutrition. Jacqui is an experienced chiropractor and acupuncturist, and a lecturer in both subjects. She studied at the Scandinavian college of chiropractors in Stockholm and the international Su Jok Acupuncture Association in Moscow. On her quest to discover healing opportunities that reveal mind and body connection, Jacqui also became a trained nutritionist, and yoga teacher. She has additional qualifications in Twist and Meridian therapies, reiki, reflexology and deep tissue massage. Recognizing that chronic back pain is always accompanied with emotional upset, Jacqui now combines spinal therapy with breath work. She is currently living in Bath, England, and practicing as the co-director of the AIR School of Breathwork.
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An Interview with Shane Leaning - Change in Schools from Within
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
03/01/25 • 61 min
Our special guest on the podcast this week is Shane Leaning, an organizational coach based in Shanghai, supporting international schools globally, with extensive experience in the UK and Asia, and a background in teaching and regional teaching development (Nord Anglia Education). As a recognized voice in international education, Shane is a public speaker, instructional leader, consultant and coach, who shares his passion for productive change in schools. He is co-founder of Work Collaborative - a research and advocacy group that inspires and empowers schools to lead change for themselves as a community. Shane Leaning hosts the chart-topping school leadership podcast, Education Leaders. He is a CollectivEd Fellow, Teacher Development Trust Associate, and TEDx speaker. Shane is co-authoring "Change Starts Here: What if Everything your School Needed was right in front of you?" (with Efraim Learner - Routledge publishers - to be released this summer). To learn more about Work Collaborative or to pre-order the book, go to https://workcollaborative.com/#work-collaborative, and/or any of the online bookstores.
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Maintaining Positive Relationships During Exam Periods in Schools and at Home
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
05/09/23 • 44 min
As many secondary school students prepare for the end of the school year, they're also in the process of preparing for their year-end exam period. This is a stressful time, both for students and their families, as emotions and expectations run high. Tara and Vicky discuss how to best engage with, and support our children during this time.
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A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond currently has 24 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts and Relationships.
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The episode title 'Interview with Carolyn Albanese on Well-being & the Impact of Mental Health Stigma on Relationships' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond is 38 minutes.
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The first episode of A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond was released on Mar 13, 2023.
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