Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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An EmpathyLab x Place2Be webinar, part of the Empathy Day Festival 2025.
A free webinar for teachers, librarians and those who live and work with young people.
A discussion on the power of reading to support young people’s wellbeing and mental health, the role that reading for empathy has in emotional regulation and social cohesion and the importance of accessible preventative tools such as reading.

Expert guest speakers include:
• Imogen Bond – Managing Director, EmpathyLab
• Rebecca Kirkbride – Clinical Director at Place2Be, a charity that specialises in a whole school approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing
• Anthony Kessel– National Deputy Medical Director for NHS England. Anthony also writes teenage fiction, which interweavessupport for mental health,including Don’t Doubt the Rainbow (Crown House Publishing)
• Sharna Jackson –award-winning, bestselling author and Artistic Director and author of The Good Turn (Puffin) and The High-Rise Mystery series (Knights Of)