Embedding Emotional Literacy in Education and Historical Literacy in Mental Health (via The Nervous State)

An Ideas Lab event to be held at the Stockport Garrick, Stockport, SK3 0EJ, on Saturday 5 July 2025. The venue is conveniently located a few minutes walk from Stockport Railway Station.

Project lead Prof. Julie V. Gottlieb, University of Sheffield, and event organiser Kevin Harris.

Please join and be part of this invitation-only laboratory of ideas exploring how to embed emotional literacy in history education and historical literacy in mental health policy and practice in our era of escalating permacrisis. We will follow a dynamic and participatory format that draws out the common concerns and synergies between educators, mental health practitioners, and the arts and heritage sectors in a way that will contribute to your continuous professional development.

Current debates and policy reorientation make this interactive and dynamic project more timely than ever in light of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (UK), the heated public debates generated by films like “Adolescence”, and the deepening emergency in mental health against the backdrop of global conflict. We are excited to join forces to impact the strategic direction of building resilience and well-being in our respective fields, especially to better support young people by integrating disciplinary literacy with emotional (self) awareness.

This workshop emerges from “The Nervous State”, an ongoing creative partnership between writer-filmmaker Nicola Baldwin and historian Julie Gottlieb, together with a broad range of stakeholders. This event is free to all registered participants, supported by the University of Sheffield’s QR Policy funding. In addition, there will be the opportunity to contribute to a podcast, and thereby be part of the legacy and ongoing impact of this participatory research project.

Embedding Emotional Literacy in Education (via The Nervous State)