A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
Transform your relationships at school - with your students and peers, and in life - with your family, friends and colleagues. Enjoy conversations about prioritizing communication with an intentional approach to healthy and inclusive relationships. Tara Gretton and Vicky Essebag are experienced solution-focused practitioners and instructional leaders with a background in education, social work and family therapy. Tara (UK), and Vicky (Canada), enjoy sharing their thoughts and reflections - across the pond. Join them during their regular chats as they interview amazing leaders and share their insights and expertise. You will love their energy, inspiration and compassion as they promote well-being in productive relationships for ALL. Check out their youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@Relationspaces) for their Relationspaces Power Bursts. These are short video clips during which Tara and Vicky ask a relationship-based question which they answer using their solution-focused expertise, and in under 10 minutes.
Tara Gretton is the founder of Solution Revolution. She fell in love with the Solution-Focused (SF) approach in 2002. Tara is on a mission to share the magic of the SF approach with schools, children, young people and families. She also feels passionately about young people’s voices being heard and loves to train young people in the solution-focused approach. Tara also enjoys working with musicians, actors and breath workers where they bring the magic of SF and the arts together. https://www.solutionrevolution.co.uk/.
Vicky Essebag is an experienced educator, school leader, family therapist and certified solution-focused coach. As a relational comnmunication specialist, she is widely known for teaching solution-focused practice to support effective communication for ALL. Vicky inspires and motivates parents, schools and organizations to cultivate and strengthen relationships that are grounded in equity, inclusion, success and well-being. She is author of Relationspaces; A Solution-Focused Handbook for Parents, and Founder of the coaching and consulting company - Relationspaces- www.relationspaces.com.
A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
An Interview with Jessica Morgenthal: Coaching with Power & Purpose while Looking to Nature
Tara Gretton and Vicky Essebag have the pleasure of interviewing Jessica Morgenthal, an award-winning podcast host and blogger, positive psychologist, and resilience coach who helps people and organizations navigate change, build resilience, and reconnect with what truly matters. She is the creator of Resilience Gone Wild, a podcast that blends captivating stories from the natural world with powerful, science-backed tools for human thriving—recognized as DiscoverPods’ 2024 Podcast of the Year and Best Science Podcast.
Jessica is also a systemic team coach, consultant, speaker, and author with a background in strategic identity consulting, marketing research, and futurism. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree from Harvard, and has served on numerous nonprofit boards. Her work brings a rare blend of strategic insight and soulful wisdom to the worlds of leadership, sustainability, and social impact.
She is a dedicated volunteer at Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Florida, where she helps guests fall in love with the ocean and its extraordinary creatures—part of her broader mission to use nature’s wild wisdom to inspire more compassionate, connected, and regenerative ways of living and working.
Whether recording podcasts, leading workshops and retreats, or simply telling the story of a sleeping parrotfish, Jessica invites us to find our power, our purpose, and our next step forward—by looking to nature.
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