Finding Hope
“You find hope the way you find happiness — you give it to someone else and borrow a little of it back.” Robert Brault As many in the Civil Society Sector will know, times are hard at the moment and despite the sense of purpose and joy we often feel from the work we do there is an additional heaviness right now. This is exacerbated by what else is going on in the world and it can be tough to find the happiness and hope we need. That’s why I’m writing this, because last week I unexpectedly found both hope and happiness in abundance from a range of different places. Firstly, our friends at The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood published their Shaping Us Framework . A fantastic piece of research which pulls together and helps us understand the social and emotional skills that matter the most. Here at The Centre for Emotional Health we know how important these skills are and this great document pulls together a range of thinking to help give people a common language ...