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John Doran

Irish secondary school teacher and guidance counsellor, TEDx speaker, and author of the "Ways to Wellbeing" programme used in 180+ schools.

Oct 7, 2026

14:03
So if, if I'm a teacher and I'm not coming to work with that passion and purpose, or I'm not feeling like that's, that's valued, then it's gonna really be hard for me to pay that forward to students, you know? So...
14:15
Absolutely.
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And, you know, I think there's...
14:18
In, in a world that's kind of very frenetic and very speeded up, I, I say the days, the months, the weeks that go by like cats eyes on a motorway.
14:25
I think there's actually power sometimes in gathering yourself as well, Christine, as...
14:29
I- I remember seeing an old teacher one time at the end of a day as young people filed furiously out to get, capture their freedom, and he was sitting back reclining, and he said to me, "This is the most, the most precious moment of my day." And he was drinking a cup of tea, and I said, "How so?" He said, "Well, look, I just take this 10 minutes just to decompress."

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