In this episode we ask the question is it time to abolish boarding schools? Psychotherapist, Richard Hughes talks about his own experience of boarding school and working with clients.

Why have boarding schools not changed?

Why do boarding schools not offer “the love and care a child needs?”

What can we do to start changing the system?

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Richard Hughes is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist with the UK Council for Psychotherapy. He specialises in helping people in many areas. Some of these include: relationships, anxiety, depression, stress, and boarding school issues.

Some areas to talk about:

1. I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you get into the work you now do?
2. Could you please talk a little about attachment. What is good enough attachment?
3. You wrote an amazing article called Time to Abolish Boarding Schools on your blog. I would love you to talk more about that. What drew you to writing it?
4. What is the importance of the first day and night at boarding school, especially from an attachment lens? How was your first day/ night?
5. What were some of the survival methods that you employed at school? How did you start to undo these patterns and begin the healing journey?
6. How does boarding school impact our relationships with women? Could you describe a bit of how the school responded to the girls in the school?
7. “Boarding schools do not offer the love and care a child needs” Could you talk more about that please?
8. Boarding schools claim to be a safe and secure environment. What do you feel?
9. How does boarding school effect people later in adult life? What are some of the symptoms that you have seen?
10. So many of our leaders have been to boarding school. How might this effect how they run their businesses or government? What can we do to change this?
11. Could you please talk about food and nourishment? What was the food like for you at Prep school and how did that impact you?
12. How do people find out more about you?

To find out more about Richard please visit: https://www.richardhughestherapy.com/

To read Richard's blog please visit: https://www.richardhughestherapy.com/post/time-to-end-boarding-schools