A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond

By: Tara Gretton and Vicky Essebag
  • Summary

  • 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. Over the past few months, Tara (UK), and Vicky (Canada), have enjoyed 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 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 and answer it between 5-10 mtes., using their solution-focused expertise.

    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.

    © 2024 A Call Across the Pond; Transforming Relationships at School, at Home and Beyond
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Episodes
  • Interview with Ayse Adil
    Oct 30 2024

    In this episode Tara and Vicky have the pleasure of interviewing Ayse Adil. Ayse is the co-founder of Family Based Solutions, a charity in Enfield, London, that provides support for families experiencing child-to-parent abuse, families recovering from domestic abuse, and adult perpetrators of abuse. With over 15 years of experience in various educational roles, Ayse delivers training for organisations such as the NSPCC (The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) and the Metropolitan Police. She is also the co-founder of FBS Chat, an online platform where community members and therapists from around the world are interviewed to share insights and experiences. Ayse is dedicated to fostering positive change in both professional and family settings.

    Thanks so much Ayse for bringing your honesty, passion for community, and a few good laughs to our conversation. We loved having you!

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    57 mins
  • An Interview with Tara Gretton
    Sep 11 2024

    In this episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing our very own Tara Gretton! Vicky Essebag and Naomi Whitehead co-host this episode as they learn about Tara's inspiring work. Tara is an accredited solution-focused practitioner and social worker with post-graduate qualifications in child development and social work, and additional training in human physiology. With over 20 years of experience within the social care setting, education, charity sector and organizations, Tara delivers solution-focused therapeutic interventions, training, consultancy and coaching to children, young people, families and adults. She currently works in the area of Bath, England, where she is Founder of her private practice - Solution-Revolution, and a Co-Director for Solution-Focused Trainers - a community interest company. In addition to training many schools and organizations in solution-focus, Tara co-facilitates breathwork workshops at Breathing Solutions. Tara feels passionately about celebrating peoples' voices, noticing their personal resources and capabilities, and helping them to become unstuck from current or ongoing challenges. Please join us in welcoming Tara!

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    47 mins
  • An Interview with Naomi Whitehead: Inspiring our Lives with Solution-Focus
    Jun 20 2024

    In this new episode, Tara Gretton and Vicky Essebag have the pleasure of interviewing Naomi Whitehead, a passionate and inspirational solution-focused leader. Naomi resides in Sheffield, England where she is a freelance solution-focused practitioner whose current portfolio includes managing her own coaching and training company, providing coaching services to the social justice feminist charity - Young Women’s Trust, guest lecturing at both Sheffield Universities, being a director at Solution Focused Trainers Community Interest Company and delivering coaching fundamentals and mentor coaching for Solutions Academy. In our conversation, Naomi sheds light on personal and professional experiences that have shaped her love for the solution-focused approach, and ways in which she builds relationship and community. Welcome Naomi!

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    42 mins

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