A Q&A with Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
We caught up with Jeltje Gordon-Lennox, on the publication of her new book Crafting Secular Ritual. Jeltje, you’re a psychotherapist and the founder of Ashoka…
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Adoptive families come in all shapes and sizes; here they tell their stories
Ann Morris reflects upon her new book Adopting: Real Life Stories and describes the honest and often moving stories of people touched by adoption whose…
How to Create your own Wedding Ceremony
In Crafting Secular Ritual, author Jeltje Gordon-Lennox provides the tools you’ll need to craft your own secular wedding ceremony, by splitting the process into three…
Anti Bullying Week: Adrienne Katz provides tips for keeping your school e-safe and preventing cyberbullying
Research shows that for many schools it is hard to keep up with the high speed train that is a student’s online life. New apps…
Anti Bullying Week: Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing – Pooky Knightsmith
Poetry can prove a great way into difficult conversations in therapeutic, classroom or family settings. In this chapter from Using Poetry to Promote Talking and…
Understanding the Mind of a Grieving Child
By Elke Barber, young widow and author of ‘Is Daddy Coming Back in a Minute?’ and ‘What Happened to Daddy’s Body?’ offers her thoughts on…
Children’s Grief Awareness Week: Grief Pulls People Together
The arrival of Children’s Grief Awareness Week sees author Emmi Smid reflect on some memorable feedback to her ambitious book – Luna’s Red Hat. The beautiful…
How to Discover your Ritual Identity
Jeltje Gordon-Lennox’s new book, Crafting Secular Ritual, is a unique hands-on guide to the craft of ritual making. This book examines and explains the history,…
Anti Bullying Week: What role can teachers play in building a better school community? – Pete Wallis
When writing the text for What are you staring at?, a graphic novel about restorative justice in a school setting, I couldn’t resist taking a…
Anti Bullying Week: The Importance of Teaching Empathy to Children
It’s Anti Bullying Week, so we thought we’d share this extract from Alison Knowles’ new children’s book Ollie and the Golden Stripe. In this story,…