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The Mind Friends Podcast helps students to progress to high performance learning while maintaining good mental health. Dialogue is the key to unlocking and exploring academic potential and mutual flourishing.
The Mind Friends Podcast helps students to progress to high performance learning while maintaining good mental health. Dialogue is the key to unlocking and exploring academic potential and mutual flourishing.
Episodes

Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Mark's Gospel Chapter 2 (read from the NRSV version of the Bible)
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Chapter 2 of Mark's Gospel read in support of the AQA GCSE course on Mark's Gospel.

Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Mark's Gospel Chapter 1 (read from the NRSV)
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
At GCSE, AQA Religious Studies offers a study of Mark's Gospel as an option. Since Mark's Gospel was meant to be read aloud these episodes follow the whole Gospel chapter by chapter.

Friday Jan 22, 2021
Science and Religion: A Dialogue for GCSE or A Level
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Science and Religion is a big topic at GCSE and A-Level. This remote lesson during lockdown explores the main issues.
Mind Friends is a resource for students, using Socratic Dialogue. The goal is to foster good Mental Health and High Performance learning.
Schools are welcome to contact Mind Friends if they would like to submit a recorded lesson dialogue for inclusion on the Mind Friends Podcast. Contact Father Mark at mark@mind-friends.com

Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Three Minute Stress Buster
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
We all experience stress in different forms. Sometimes a degree of stress is helpful because it motivates us. But stress that lingers can make us feel unhappy and can even make us unwell, physically as well as mentally. In this episode, Mark offers two very simple ways to switch off the fight/flight/freeze part of the brain and engage the more creative, logical part. Simple but so effective.

Friday Jan 01, 2021
How Dialogue enhances High Performance Learning
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Father Mark is the founder of Mind Friends and has been a teacher for 26 years. He has discovered that Socratic Dialogue provides huge benefits to students and enhances high performance learning in a context of friendship and well-being. He speaks about some of the benefits and encourages schools to record episodes for the Mind Friends Podcast.
Schools are welcome to contact Mind Friends if they would like to submit a recorded lesson dialogue for inclusion on the Mind Friends Podcast. Contact Father Mark at mark@mind-friends.com

Monday Dec 28, 2020
Dialogue on the Problem of Evil in GCSE Religious Studies
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Year 11 students enter into dialogue on the topic, "The Problem of Evil" in GCSE Religious Studies.
The mind friends podcast is where we use Socratic dialogue to master the syllabus. Exam results are important but at the same time, what we learn can change the way we live.
As Socrates said, The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. Today we call it Wellbeing. So Mind Friends is all about helping students to master the syllabus, in dialogue with friends and teachers, in a way that strengthens wellbeing and enriches life. Everything we learn has the potential to change our lives, either positively or negatively. Think well. Live well.

Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Dialogue on the Design Argument in GCSE Religious Studies
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Year 11 students, Tallulah, Johnnie and Peter from King's College, Taunton dialogue around the Design Argument for the Existence of God in GCSE Religious Studies. They discuss the basic premise and strengths versus weaknesses.
Mind Friends is a resource for students, using Socratic Dialogue. The goal is to foster good Mental Health and High Performance learning.
Schools are welcome to contact Mind Friends if they would like to submit a recorded lesson dialogue for inclusion on the Mind Friends Podcast. Contact Father Mark at mark@mind-friends.com
