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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...physically painful experiences. The next section will allow you to experience mindfulness for yourself...Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings: 1.1 Experiencing mindfulness - To really grasp what mindfulness is, it’s important to have some experience of mindfulness practice for yourself. You can’t really get a sense of it just from reading about it. Here...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...physical changes and chemical cues occurring around them. The process of sensing and responding to extrinsic signals is often termed cellular communication, although scientists also use terms such as ‘signal transduction’ or ‘signalling’. Cells respond to a wide range of extrinsic signals that include chemical messengers (e.g. hormones, growth factors,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...physical processes in the making of environments and the understanding of environmental issues understand coastal regions as dynamic and contested environments consider the contested nature of coastal management policies using the case study of managed retreat...Managing coastal environments: 1.1 The Blackwater estuary - ‘Between the mouths of the Blackwater and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...physical expression in all kinds of literature from poems to thrillers. Icarus also regularly represents the alienation of the artist and the consequences of breaking out of boundaries, both cultural and social. If you typed ‘Icarus’ into an internet search engine, this no doubt yielded a fascinating but random range of Icarus-related themes with plenty of examples...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...physical mock-ups, computer-based models, or mathematical models which explore an element of the product’s performance understand that there is rarely a unique solution to any design problem. Part of the skill of a designer is in finding a problem–solution pair, and the best compromise understand how models of the design process are formulated, and how they can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...physical’ reason. He will present and refute these three reasons in turn, one per section. A fourth reason for assuming the existence of an afterlife is that this is what it says in the Bible. Hume's explicit conclusion, then, is that we should be grateful to the Gospels for revealing to us something that otherwise we would be ignorant of. You can confirm this by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...physically it was just getting an impossibility. But I’d always loved my job, but it was then becoming that I was away 5, 6 days a week, getting home and I couldn’t get away from work basically, because I would get back here and there would be faxes and messages and goodness knows what and … A lot of my job was travelling a lot I was covering a huge area, not just...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...physical skills. So before they can actually learn to use a pen and write – so use their fine motor skills – they’re developing those skills on a larger scale, really. Forest school: why play is important Select from the list below the top three things you consider the children to be gaining from the forest school experience. Write your three choices in the table...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs