Helen Sundaram, Founder and Director of the Kindness Bank,
discusses the importance of kindness and how schools can promote
this to improve wellbeing.
A year ago, I was mentally abused at work. It was deeply
distressing, and extremely damaging to my mental health. It
impacted not just me but my family too, and I struggle with the
repercussions even today. I felt forced to resign from a job I
loved, without the compensation I was owed. I was broken, unable to
fight and in need of the help of a therapist.
I've heard it said that difficult roads lead to beautiful
destinations. And as I tried to pick up the pieces, I vowed to do
everything I could to make the world a kinder place. Naïve
some might say. But as someone who works in education, I'm
finding leaders very receptive to conversations on kindness.
Because there is a need, a very real need to understand it, and
inspire more of it. Never more so than in the wake of
Everyone's Invited and in these times of
