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Learn to live well with self-care on OpenLearn
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learn to live well with self-care on OpenLearn

...family and friends, finding ways to relax and more physical exercise. We've got some great ideas to help you get started! ...Explore these articles and courses to help give you inspiration. Change doesn't have to be overwhelming. Just add one change in your life and build from there, even getting out for a walk each day can help boost your mood and improve physical health!...
International Men's Day
Miscellaneous

International Men's Day

...celebrates the “positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities” and this collection of OpenLearn resources is designed to reflect that message. This year we also acknowledge the theme of “zero male suicide”, and hope our article on the subject, and accompanying content, offers some insight, encouragement and positivity to those who need it....
My unique path to university: more real stories
Education & Development

My unique path to university: more real stories

...family to go to University. ...This series of videos is documenting the journeys of university students from backgrounds currently underrepresented in higher education. Simon's story Simon shares his experience of joining university later in life and his hopes for a future career in television. [My Path to University: Simon's Story] [Wrexham University Logo] This resource...
The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...histories of their respective nations. This is a potentially revealing angle because ideas about the past provide the foundation for national identities in the present. The glories and triumphs of yesteryear, the collective endurance of vicissitudes long past, the belief in shared origins and collective experiences: these are the things which provide the raw materials...
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...History Unit. We were trying to tell environmental stories and warn of climate change long before the E word became fashionable. I’m not sure we changed anything at the time but we did lay the groundwork for people to listen later. I left the BBC in the 1990s and since then have worked as a Producer and Executive Producer for all UK terrestrial broadcasters and...
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...history and me In terms of television and natural history I am a strange character it seems, in that I absolutely love television and as a child I absolutely loved television. I watched television all day and every day at the expense of reading things like actual books. I wore out the armchair of my parents’ sofa because I watched so much television, and my mother...
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural development, self-care skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the relationship of behaviour to...
Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup

...families, who were colloquially known as the WAGs (wives and girlfriends) and FAFs (friends and families). The WAGs included the high-profile wives and partners of players like David Beckham, Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney. Unfortunately, Baden-Baden became a celebrity circus with the focus often centred on the social activities of the players’ partners and families...