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SUMMARY:Carrie Herbert: Rebuilding Victims of Bullying at the Red Balloon 
 Learning Centre - Dr Carrie Herbert\, Red Balloon Learning Centre
DTSTART:20190115T173000Z
DTEND:20190115T183000Z
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CONTACT:Julian M. Siebert
DESCRIPTION:Red Balloon was founded in 1996 by Carrie Herbert in her home 
 in Cambridge.  The charity was set up to help recover children and young p
 eople who had been so severely bullied or traumatised that they felt unabl
 e to attend school. Red Balloon Centres are small fulltime educational est
 ablishments for 11- to 18-year-olds in which students can feel safe\, rega
 in their self-esteem\, get back on an academic track and become confident 
 enough to be able to re-join their mainstream peers. There are three inter
 locking elements: academic education\, wellbeing and community. Starting w
 ith one student in 1996\, there are now about 200 attending the four Centr
 es in Cambridge\, Norwich\, North West London\, and Reading\, as well as t
 he online Centre called Red Balloon of the Air. \nThe short-term education
 al and therapeutic programmes build children’s self-confidence\, get the
 m back on an academic road and help them make friends and build positive r
 elationships. When they are ready\, they return to school or go on to furt
 her education or an apprenticeship. Many complete A levels at college and 
 then go to university. Red Balloon's philosophy and practice are built on 
 a particular view of learning\, namely: that the learner needs to take cha
 rge of their own learning and decide the what\, the how\, the when\, the c
 onstraints imposed\, the resources that are needed\, the product\, and who
  will evaluate it and on what criteria.\n\n*About the speaker:*\n\nDr Carr
 ie Herbert trained as a teacher at the College\, Ripon\, before emigrating
  to Australia in 1973 to work as a teacher in the Education Department of 
 South Australia. She returned to the UK in the eighties to complete a Mast
 er's Degree at UEA and a PhD at Wolfson College\, Cambridge. She finally l
 eft Adelaide in 1990 and set up her own educational consultancy\, speciali
 sing in equal opportunities\, sexual harassment and bullying\, before foun
 ding Red Balloon in 1996. She has written a number of books on the subject
  of bullying and harassment in schools and in the workplace. 
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, UK\, CB3 9BB
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