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Mark Samways

Director of Wellbeing

The Free Spirit Collective

Mark is the director of Wellbeing at The Free Spirit Collective in Dubai, UAE. He has implemented award winning whole school approaches to wellbeing and published academic research along side the programmes highlighting their effectiveness. He is incredibly passionate about promoting a culture of Wellbeing for the whole system of staff, students and parents. He is a trained Counselling Psychologist and holds a Masters in Addiction Psychology and Counselling along with Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching.

SPEAKER SESSIONS

26 May, 2025 | 13:30 to 13:50
Don't start with coding - Focus on emotions first

When you look at the data across the lifespan, both students and adults alike struggle so much with emotion regulation. Why then, do we not teach this from an early age, but we focus on maths, coding and other subjects. I make the evidence informed argument to start with emotions and build the rest later.