‘Listen – are you breathing a little and calling it a life?’ MARY OLIVER

Positive mental and emotional wellbeing is the vital sign that you are living the life you were born for.

Yet suicide rates continue to rise. In the UK, suicide is now the leading cause of death for people under 40. Many are in education, where students, teachers and other staff all struggle with anxiety, depression, overwhelm and burnout—often to the point of wanting to leave.

Higher education is pivotal: the launchpad for the deep, transformative impact urgently needed in a world facing growing crises. It shapes future teacher-educators, innovators and leaders across our communities and workplaces.

LifeRoute is a hub for new thinking, values-based pedagogy and fresh ways of expression in education. Our LEAP to Authentic Excellence initiatives bring together Leadership, Ethos, Awareness and Purpose through top-down, bottom-up and inside-out approaches.

Our Caring on Campus programmes and retreats especially focus on building cultures of compassion that ripple outward for wider social impact. If we hope for a future in which everyone can grow and thrive, there is no better place to start

Encouragement in Academia

Ego? or Humility?

There are two forms of Ego. One shows itself through behaviours that suggest a sense of superiority over another. However, feeling and acting inferior to others is also ego. It can become like a game that we feel compelled to play – constantly switching from…

Encouragement

‘Even an old pit pony needs the occasional pat on the nose.’ A word of encouragement goes such a long way, especially when it is a long road that is less travelled. Most small children when they are learning to walk are given loads of encouragement to take…