Growing Minds: The Science of Raising Thriving Teens
Our teenagers are growing up in one of the most complex and fast-moving times in history — yet they continue to show remarkable courage, compassion, and resilience. They face intense academic pressure, technology-driven social challenges, and an unpredictable world. As parents, we see both their strength and their struggles. We watch them navigate friendships, self-doubt, and stress — often wishing we could do more — while also trying to stay steady ourselves when emotions run high at home.
Growing Minds: The Science of Raising Thriving Teens is an essential, evidence-based guide for modern parents. Grounded in the latest neuroscience, it goes beyond the basics to explain how to support your teen’s brain health while strengthening your own resilience. The book explores key topics such as balancing pleasure and pain, building strength through healthy relationships, and creating habits that optimise brain function.
More than a guide to achievement, Growing Minds is about helping families grow emotionally, socially, and mentally — equipping both parents and teens to navigate life’s challenges with confidence and clarity.
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Leader. Know, Love and Inspire Your People
What exactly is it that good leaders do to enable their teams to succeed?
How do they think? What do findings from neuroscience teach us about effective leadership?
Leader explores and answers these crucial questions.
In this wide-ranging book, Katy and Emmie eloquently combine up-to-date research in psychology and neuroscience with inspiring examples of success to show that leadership can be learned and that it is all about looking after your people.
They take you on a journey to meet a diverse selection of great leaders from multiple spheres - from the sports field to the corporate world - and talk you through the process by which effective leaders have become great leaders.
The secret lies in mastering three key principles: know your people, love your people, inspire your people. These three principles form the core of the book, which also provides a range of practical activities designed to help you reflect on your own and your team's progress and performance.
Leadership for Flourishing
Leadership for Flourishing seeks to demonstrate that a group's leadership impacts the group's flourishing and that flourishing impacts leadership. The contributors develop frameworks and practices that highlight the dynamic between leadership and flourishing. They identify the positive examples around the globe that are evolving what is possible around leadership for flourishing. Flourishing is a global goal (e.g., UN SDGs), a global right (e.g., UN human development report), and becoming a global rule (e.g., ESG standards). It is time to showcase leadership for flourishing.
Divided into four parts, the book brings together leading scholars and reflective practitioners to describe the current state of what is known about leadership for flourishing; reframe what flourishing and leadership are, in this expanding context; explain how leadership affects flourishing within organizations and across ecosystems; and identify what is emerging in the practice fields of leadership for flourishing. To each chapter, the authors bring a strong understanding of the current, underlying philosophy of their field of inquiry, combined with many years of evolving their understanding through their fieldwork and practical experience, with a passionate drive towards leadership for flourishing. This work utilizes several empirical methods, including ethnographic observations, surveys, case studies, and archival data analysis within one organization or across multiple organizations.