"Boarding Schools Are Traumatic & Dangerous for Most Children" Today I am speaking with Joss Goulden who is trained in psychology and is a parenting coach. She also went to boarding school for 10 years.

Here she talks about why she feels that boarding schools are not safe places to bring up children. How boarding schools create trauma in our young people rather than helping them to flourish.

She shares some of the solutions. 

Areas to talk about:

1.  I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you get into the work that you now do?
2.  What is Aware Parenting? What does it mean to consciously parent our children?
3.  What is the impact of trauma on children? How do we heal our traumatised children?
4.  How do we support children to experience less adversity and suffering?
5.  I would love for you to speak about your boarding school experiences. How was it like for you? How has it impacted the work you now do? 
6.  Do you feel that boarding school has an impact on a child? If so what might that be?
7.  Do you feel that we normalize boarding school and childhood trauma? What is the impact of this normalization?
8.  What is the positive way of working with children?
9.  In your work what is the power of speaking up and sharing our stories?
10.  How do people learn more about your work or reach out?

“I attended boarding school in the UK for 10 years from the age of 8.  Since then, I have dedicated most of my adult life to learning more about attachment, trauma and healing, initially for myself and then to support others. 

On leaving school, I completed a BSc in Psychology, and post-graduate qualifications in Human Communication Science and Counselling. I became a parent myself in 2003 and was blessed to discover Aware Parenting shortly after that. I am now a parenting coach and an Aware Parenting Instructor, certified with the Aware Parenting Institute, founded by Aletha Solter Ph.D.

I support parents to raise their children with more awareness, connection and secure attachment, and with significantly less trauma, adversity and suffering, much of which involves supporting parents to also process and heal their own stress and trauma from their childhoods. 

I am passionate about increasing the understanding of the impacts of stress and trauma on children to ensure more children are raised with compassion. Part of this is understanding the impact of the trauma of boarding school attendance so that fewer parents choose to send their children away to these institutions and instead choose to keep their children at home with them. I offer individual and group sessions to parents, as well as courses and communities. 

To find out more about Joss' work: https://awareparenting.com.au/

Or find her on social media @awareparentingwithjoss

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1

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Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/