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Perspectives

With Penny & Jennie from The Informed Perspective

In today’s fast-moving world, it’s easy to feel disconnected, from our communities, from other generations, and even from ourselves. The Informed Perspective exists to pause that rush, to listen more carefully, and to create space for meaningful reflection and dialogue. We believe that when people share their experiences—across generations, cultures, and backgrounds—they offer insights that strengthen the communities we live in. Conversations that begin locally can be enriched by broader voices,

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Perspectives: Encouraging Curiosity

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2026/10/08

In a world that often forgets to listen, being curious is the key to connection. Curiosity means that we look beyond the surface, pushing past fast-paced assumptions to truly understand one another.In our latest episode of the Perspectives podcast, we dive deep into an essential yet frequently overlooked asset for personal and societal growth: curiosity. In today’s fast-paced environment, we noticed how curiosity is often suppressed. We rush to conclusions, default to binary thinking, and let

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67:01

Perspectives: Learning Through Play

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2026/10/01

What is play, really?If you ask most people, they’ll picture a child on a playground, building blocks, or kicking a ball. But in our latest Learning Through Play podcast episode, we sat down with play therapist Dr. Kate Renshaw and researcher Dr. Will Zoppollini to challenge that narrow definition.Play isn’t just an activity. It’s a mindset.Right now, we are living through a global play deficit, and it’s showing up everywhere, from our rigid school systems to our adult lives. We’ve become obsessed

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Perspectives: Empathy

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2026/09/24

Empathy is something that sits at the very heart of the work we do around listening and being heard, but let's be honest, it’s not always present. In a world driven by busyness, digital noise, and constant polarisation, deep listening can get forgotten.In this episode, we explored what empathy actually is, reminding ourselves that perhaps the exact definition matters less than simply being fully present with another person. We also looked at its profound physiological impact on the human brain and

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53:50

Perspectives: Holistic Education

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2026/09/11

In a fast and ever-changing world, what are the skills that our children really need, and how can we help support them more?Let’s be honest: much of traditional schooling still feels stuck in a time warp. We are training children to pass tests, memorise facts, and check boxes in a system built for a completely different era. But the real world they are walking into demands something entirely different—emotional resilience, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and, above all, deep human

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Perspectives: Back To School

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2026/07/28

I know, I know—it feels a little early to be talking about getting Back to School while summer is still here! But the academic new year is already quietly appearing on the not too distant horizon.Looming ahead is the new term with those eventually darker mornings, shorter evenings, heavy backpacks, school uniforms, and that long-term pile of expectations on both kids and parents.In this week’s episode of Perspectives, we wanted to have a really grounded chat about how we can approach this season

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Perspectives: Safeguarding

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2026/06/23

We came into this conversation knowing that safeguarding matters. We came out of it understanding that this is a conversation we need to be having and revisiting to make sure we are doing it well. Because good intentions are not enough on their own and because the conversations that protect children can be the ones hardest to start.Dr Catherine Knibbs created the term Cybertrauma. For fifteen years, she has worked with clients who have told her, again and again, that what they experience online is

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68:12

Perspectives: Youth Voice

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2026/06/20

For a while now we have been sitting with a feeling we couldn’t quite shake. We have had so many rich conversations on this podcast with experts, researchers, authors, practitioners, all talking about young people. And those conversations are so valuable. But somewhere along the way we started to wonder whether, in doing that, we were missing something essential. Whether the people we most needed to hear more from were the young people themselves.We discovered that it wasn't easy. Getting young

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78:06

Perspectives: Youth Mental Health

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2026/06/11

We recorded this episode on youth mental health in response to what we are picking up in our community. We knew it would be an important conversation and it was. We came out of it feeling genuinely hopeful and that is not always the case with this subject.Rachel Kelly author of The Gift of Teenagers: Connect More, Worry Less, opened up about her own mental health journey in a way that took real courage. Ten years of severe depression. And here is the thing that struck us most, the first time it

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63:09

Perspectives: Family Dynamics

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2026/06/10

In this episode we chatted with Catherine Carr, author of Who’s The Favourite? The Loving, Messy Realities of Sibling Relationships, and Dalton Conley, Professor of Sociology at Princeton, whose research into the genetics of family life has produced findings we weren’t expecting.Here is the one that has stayed with us most. Children shape their parents just as much as parents shape their children. From as young as 18 months, children with higher genetic potential for educational success are drawing

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63:25

Perspectives: Youth Engagement

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2026/05/28

We’ve just finished recording our Youth Engagement episode, and it has left me truly hopeful.We spend a lot of time worrying about whether young people are engaged. We spend considerably less time asking whether we are. This podcast is all about how we can co-design along side each other.Our guests were Abbee McLatchie, Deputy CEO of the National Youth Agency in England, and Paul Stepczak, a community engagement specialist who has co-facilitated nearly 100 co-design events across Wales.Abbee told us

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Perspectives: Listening

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2026/05/20

I’ll be honest, this episode has been sitting on our agenda for ages.Jennie and I have explored a lot of subjects on our podcast. Sleep. Identity. Discovery. Shyness. Motivation. Digital Balance. Third Spaces etc. But listening, really sitting down and dedicating a whole episode to listening, has been well overdue. Because in many ways, it’s the thread running through everything we do at The Informed Perspective. It’s the reason behind everything we do.We were joined by three incredible guests,

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73:07

Perspectives: Tweens

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2026/05/04

In our latest Perspectives podcast we consider the wonderful tween!This episode is close to our hearts because supporting tweens and young people sits right at the centre of what we do. It’s why we founded Tween Talk, our dedicated third space for this age group. We kept seeing the same thing: tweens slipping through the cracks. Not quite children, not yet teenagers — and somehow, that in-between place means they’re often the least supported of all.“I don’t want to be angry all the time. I just

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73:45

Perspectives: Parenting in Digital Times

Perspectives ·

2026/04/15

Our latest Perspectives Podcast is out! We’re pulling back the curtain on the “Digital Wild West” of parenting. This isn’t a lecture on screen time, it’s a candid conversation about the challenges of life today, the stats that keep us up at night, and how we actually bridge the gap with our kids.Who Joined the Conversation?* Parven Kaur (Founder of Kids and Clicks): A cybersecurity award nominee and mother who is a leading expert in online safety and digital parenting. She’s on a mission to move

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Perspectives: Third Spaces

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2026/03/18

Across every generation, we’re more connected than ever, through screens, networks, and constant communication and yet, in countless ways, we’re more alone.In this episode of Perspectives, we consider a question (actually one that came from one of our tweens!):What happened to the spaces where young people could just… hang out?Not structured.Not constantly supervised.Not needing to be productive or “on”.Just… space to be.We’re joined by Paul Billingsley, co-founder of Moot, rethinking where

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53:38

Perspectives: Digital Balance

Perspectives ·

2026/03/12

In our latest podcast, we explore one of the defining challenges of modern life: balancing our time online and offline. At the same time, we ask a pressing question for families today, how do we raise children in a digital world that is designed to capture and compete for their attention?Yes, this is a topic that’s being talked about a lot, but it’s clear we still need to speak—and more importantly, listen—more. The struggle is real, and each of us can benefit from being more mindful and curious

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Perspectives: Menopause

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2026/03/06

In our latest Perspectives Podcast, we bring together three remarkable women whose work explores menopause from very different but deeply complementary angles: psychology, physiology, and the workplace.Together they help us understand menopause not simply as a hormonal event, but as a profound life transition affecting identity, brain function, energy, relationships, wellbeing, and even professional life.Different perspectives, one complex transitionDr Rachel Moseley, Principal Academic in

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Tools That Helped When Everything Felt Overwhelming

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2026/03/03

Alongside the powerful reflections Ben shared on our chronic pain episode, he also speaks candidly about the practical tools that carried him through his darkest period.When pain, panic, insomnia, medication withdrawal, and depression collided, even forming a rational thought felt impossible to him. So during brief windows of clarity, he began recording and writing down his thoughts, not just to vent, but to challenge them.Using techniques rooted in CBT and ACT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and

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Hope Versus Acceptance in The Context of Chronic Pain

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2026/03/03

In our recent Perspectives Podcast episode on chronic pain, we touched on a question:When you’re living with constant pain, is it better to hold onto hope — or to lean into acceptance?After we finished recording, Ben Taylor shared an additional video clip going deeper into this exact tension. It felt worth sharing on its own.How do we hold hope without denying reality?How do we accept reality without shrinking possibility?If you’re living with chronic pain, or supporting someone who is, this short

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68:06

Chronic Pain

Perspectives ·

2026/03/03

We thought it would feel overwhelmingly heavy. And yes, it was deep, sad, and incredibly moving. But what surprised us most was the power that surfaced alongside the pain.Both of our guests — Breanna Tory, who began living with chronic pain in her teens, and Ben Taylor, who experienced it from age 21, faced the challenge of identity, independence, and body image being disrupted by a body that betrayed them.And yet.They spoke not only about suffering, but about resilience, endurance, and perspective

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59:00

Ageism

Perspectives ·

2026/02/25

Ageism is subtle, woven into assumptions about slowing down, about “not being that age anymore,” about what older or younger people can or can’t do. Often, it even shapes how we see ourselves.In this episode of Perspectives, we are joined by Carol Bates, founder of Crawley Old Girls and Old Girls Play Too, and Kerry Hardey, physiotherapist and co-founder of The Intergenerational Project. Together, we explore intergenerational learning, confidence, physical activity, and body respect.One theme keeps

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