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eldership in leadership
By piers February 13, 2026
What if leadership fails because of ungrieved trauma? A CLG reflection on eldership, emotional intelligence, and healing cultures shaped by institutions.
By piers February 6, 2026
Charles Spencer speaks openly about boarding school abuse, fear, rage, corporal punishment, and lifelong trauma. A vital conversation about silence, survival, and truth.
By piers January 30, 2026
A powerful conversation with paediatrician Dr William Verling on boarding school trauma, safeguarding failures, emotional shutdown, impostor syndrome, and what happens when children aren’t protected.
By piers January 23, 2026
A deep conversation with Dr Mark Stibbe on the mother wound, attachment theory, and why boarding school can create emotional shutdown. Plus Skyfall, James Bond, and healing pathways.
By piers January 16, 2026
Actor and comedian Tom Greaves shares how boarding school shaped his humour, shame, and identity — and how his show “Goodbye Uncle Fudgy” became a path from dissociation to healing.
By piers January 9, 2026
Educational psychologist Morag Edwards explores girls’ boarding school trauma, neglect, attachment rupture, and misogyny in co-educational boarding schools.
By piers January 2, 2026
Sam Adams explores men’s trauma, emotional shutdown, and how reconnecting with nature, seasons, and community can heal the wounded masculine.
By piers December 26, 2025
Dr Mark Stibbe shares how boarding school abuse shaped his emotional shutdown (“the boarded heart”), and how therapy, spirituality, and forgiveness can lead to healing.
By piers December 19, 2025
Roger Sharpley shares the lifelong impact of being sent to boarding school at age two, including PTSD, memory loss, anxiety, and healing through therapy, Tai Chi, and love.
By piers December 12, 2025
Andrew Kavak shares his Westminster School boarding experience, the psychology of abandonment and dissociation, and how writing therapy can support healing. Listen to Episode 84 of An Evolving Man Podcast.