Dr Pamela Hatton holds a PhD in Psychology, specialising in work and educational stress. Working with diverse cultures, languages and differing socio-economic backgrounds, her General Practice work covers all aspects of health and wellbeing, individual behaviours, and functioning.
Her main focus lies in behavioural education and mindset change in both the learning and work environments.
Having participated in many projects, empowering the ‘person inside’ is a key feature of her work – providing guidance, promoting metacognition, and in the development of both critical thinking skills and lifelong learning practices. She is also adept with knowledge co-creation.
Presentation: From Picos to Parting Seas
Have you ever involved yourself in a conversation – only for it to go – so WRONG? Embarrassingly so!
Have you ever been involved in a conversation when you did not want one – only for it to be just what you needed? Heart-warmingly so!
The ability to start a conversation is often dismissed as a simple social grace, yet it remains one of the most complex psychological and linguistic manoeuvres in human interaction.
In psychology, it is part of the bridge-building phase of social dynamics, a social function, or what we know as ‘small talk.’
Listen in ….. I am starting a conversation!
