Education talks webinar

Courageous Conversations

As part of our ISP Educates ME programme, we have started a series of podcasts called Courageous Conversations. We call them Courageous Conversations because children don’t arrive with a set of instructions and these podcasts aim to support ISP families with advice and ideas connected to parenting.

The podcasts will cover many difficult parenting topics and are designed to support families through some of these difficult periods. Each podcast has been designed as a conversation between our Abigail Fishbourne and a member of our school teams. Abigail Fishbourne is the Director of Learning at ISP Middle East and Adjunct Professor in the Education Faculty at Taylors University in Malaysia. She has worked in schools for over 30 years and has held school leadership positions for 27 years, but it is in her position of mother and grandma that she feels she has really had her work cut out for her!

Join the conversation with Abigail and Redah Khan, School Counsellor at Aspen Heights British School, as we learn what it means to be resilient and how to build this trait in our children.

Amena Saleem, School Counsellor at Nibras International School, Dubai and Marie Froud, Wellbeing Advisor at Park House English School, Doha Qatar, join Abigail to discuss how to understand, regulate and deal with the different emotions that children feel in their primary years.

Join the conversation as Abigail talks to Lyvica Allen, Head of Year 12 and 13 at Park House English School, Doha Qatar. Their discussion will highlight what we can do to help prepare our children to move away for university.

Abigail is joined by Amena Saleem, School Counsellor at Nibras International School, Dubai and Marie Froud, Wellbeing Advisor at Park House English School, Doha Qatar as they discuss how to address Exam Anxiety. Learn what high and low anxiety looks like and how you can support your child through this.