A reflective practitioner with Abrial.
At Abrial, we believe that these challenging times in education mean that the only way to be your best professional self is to find a space for reflection.
- When financial and temporal capital are scarce, the thing you still have is human capital.
- Without time and money, you cannot work harder, but you can work smarter, and smart grows out of reflection.
- Reflection enables you to reclaim your agency as a practitioner; you are not ‘done to;’ instead you work out the next best move you can make.
We feel humbled and honoured by practitioners who choose to find their space for reflection with us, through professional supervision or coaching.
So we show our appreciation by sharing with these practitioners the status of ‘a reflective practitioner with Abrial.’
If they want, our clients can add this status to their email signature, their social media profiles, and their presence in schools through the physical and electronic reflective practitioner badge. By doing so, they can signal to colleagues and peers their belief in the wisdom of reflection.
Or, if they don’t want, they don’t need to. We just want them to know how lucky we feel to be working with them
School refusing - a coaching perspective
‘School refuser’ is a problematic term. It immediately suggests confrontation. We prefer the wordier but more accurate ‘young people frequently absent from school’. This phrase too fails to include all of the circumstances affecting teenagers, but read on.
We are talking about a new way to support parents and teenagers.
Is there an epidemic of teenage anxiety? Do we need to look at a new way to support teens and parents so that anxiety is managed, and contentment prevails? We have the new way here at Abrial. Michael Whitworth, Director of Abrial, has the evidence that what we do, works.