Find Your Brave through Vulnerability

Find Your Brave is the theme for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week, taking place now. Although the focus is on children, I firmly believe that adults have a critical part to play in developing the next generation.

The gap between children’s knowledge and skills around mental health and those of adults is sometimes huge and widening where workplaces aren’t taking this seriously. I’ve noticed recently that children and young people often have a much better understanding of the brain, emotions and strategies for dealing with them, than adults. I’ve recently been training the adults who are teaching the children, informing two very different generations about the same thing, and knowing that pupils are going to grow up to be much better informed than the older population. It’s just as well that many ethical workplaces are also taking this seriously. This isn’t about ‘first-aid’, patching it up when mental health goes wrong. It’s about resilience and knowing how to manage our emotional state in times of adversity.

So, we need to have the knowledge and skills to look after ourselves and those around us but an ingredient that is often missing is the concept of modelling.  If we don’t communicate to others, including children, how we’re feeling and how we’re coping (or not), how are we expecting them to do the same?

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