Inspiring online training sessions for anyone working with children and young people
Our training sessions equip you with powerful new strategies to use books to develop young people’s understanding of empathy, and their empathy skills. Each online training is ninety minutes. Lively and interactive, our training is led by EmpathyLab’s team alongside expert practitioners in relevant fields.
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4 November 2025 – online, 4.00-5.30pm
This course takes empathy-rich books and shows you how to use them to develop children’s understanding of relationships and how to navigate the emotions that come with them. It’s suitable for anyone working with primary or secondary age children’s especially teachers and will support the delivery of key themes in the RSE curriculum and personal, social and wellbeing education
The course focuses on books about positive relationships (including with friends) families of all kinds, and respecting difference and diversity.
You will come away with:
– An understanding of the science of empathy and how books build it
– An understanding of how empathy book-talking can build relationships
– Ideas for linking in with the relationships theme in November’s Empathy Action Month.
EmpathyLab’s short learning webinar featuring author Nicola Morgan (renowned for books like The Teenage Guide to Friends and Blame My Brain), is an impactful opportunity for educators and professionals working with children to explore how reading can nurture empathy and strengthen relationship skills. The webinar will look at how to embed empathy-focused reading into Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PHSE) and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curricula with book recommendations for primary and secondary teachers