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Jekaterina Belajeva
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Researching, educating, growing my businesses.
London, UK
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Registration for Term 2 closes soon.
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#Education #Psychology
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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LIFESTYLE AND WELLBEING
Self-Care or Self-Comfort? And Why Does the Difference Matter?
Everyone has heard about self-care, but confusing it with self-comfort does more harm than good: lspc.org.uk/2024/10/31/s...
#Psychology #Counselling #Psychotherapy #Wellbeing
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Learn English for Finance online with Cambridge International School of English!
Course duration: 4 months
CEFR levels: B2-C1
Age groups: 16+
Next course start dates: 1 December, 1 January, 1 February
More about the course: cambridge-cise.org.uk/professional...
#English #FinanceEnglish #ESP
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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UPCOMING TEACHING WORKSHOPS
18 October 2025:
Promoting a Growth Mindset in the English Language Classroom
22 November 2025:
Creating Makerspace for Young Language Learners
20 December 2025:
Effective EFL Classroom Management Strategies
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October 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Registration for Term 1 closes soon.
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#Education #Psychology #Counselling
August 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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When you invest in yourself, you invest in your future.
Choose a course or qualification at LSFL to boost your career in finance, law or business management:
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Next term start date: 20 September 2025
#Careers #Economics #Finance #Law #Management #Education #CPD #UK
July 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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UPCOMING TEACHING WORKSHOPS
19 July 2025:
Utilising Alternative Assessment Methods in the EFL Classroom
23 August 2025:
Exploring Webb’s Depth Of Knowledge
20 September 2025:
Managing Diversity in the English Language Classroom
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July 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND
July 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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LSPC Summer School 2025
Dates: 1.08.2025 – 31.08.2025
View topics for online lectures and workshops here: lspc.org.uk/summer-school/
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#Education #CPD #Psychology #Counselling #MentalHealth with London School of Psychology and Counselling
July 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Intensive IELTS preparation
Are you planning to study at university in an English-speaking country?
Enrol in our online #IELTS preparation course to maximise your score in the world’s most popular English language proficiency test for higher education: cambridge-cise.org.uk/intensive-ie...
July 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This is what I mean when I say democracy is being done wrong. You can have elections and legal safeguards, but if people can’t know what’s true, engage meaningfully, or challenge power, then democracy is no longer delivering on its core promises.
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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We live in a system where:

Truth is drowned in disinformation

Deliberation is fragmented and polarised

Accountability is often performative or deflected

So even if rights remain intact on paper, democracy isn’t functioning at the level that matters.
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I'd ask all of you and @jcbslide.bsky.social to think about these questions:

Can we know what’s true?

Can we debate and decide fairly?

Can we hold power accountable?

If you answer "no" to those questions, then I'd argue you aren't living in a functional democracy, just a performance of one.
July 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I use the VDA Framework to describe democracy as a system with three essential functions:

Verification - Can we establish what is true?

Deliberation - Can we debate and decide fairly?

Accountability - Can we hold power to account?

If these fail, democracy becomes a hollow performance.
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🧵 @jcbslide.bsky.social 's reply reflects a common but crucial misunderstanding: that democracy simply is civil liberties and fair procedures. But rights alone don’t guarantee democratic legitimacy. What matters is whether the public can meaningfully participate in truth, power, and accountability.
Our Democracy is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to a fair trial. Eliot, what about democracy needs to be changed? The consent of the governed? Separation of powers? Private ownership & capitalism maybe? Don’t back seat drive. Share.
It's not that politics is being done wrong, it's that democracy is being done wrong. If he don't fix the latter, the former just becomes performance.
July 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Need help with financing your studies at our School?
Apply for a tuition grant for Term 1 (September start) by 30 June: lspc.org.uk/fees-and-fun...
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#Education #Psychology #Counselling #Psychotherapy #Grants
June 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Considering the next step in your teaching career? Gain an Oxford Advanced Diploma in TESOL Practice from Oxford School of Advanced TESOL Studies!
More about the qualification: oxford-tesol.org.uk/oxford-advan...
Next term start date: 1 October 2025
#AppliedLinguistics #TEFL #ELT #TESOL #Oxford
June 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Psychology effects every part of our lives, and there are endless job opportunities for people studying psychology.
See what career you can embark on with a degree in psychology: lspc.org.uk/career-hub/c...
#Career #Education #CPD #Psychology #Counselling #Psychotherapy #MentalHealth #Wellbeing
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Deploying the National Guard—over the objections of state leaders and local law enforcement—is a dangerous escalation.

This isn’t about enforcing law and order, it’s about seizing power and control. Americans won’t tolerate this slide into authoritarianism.
June 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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June 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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REGISTRATION CLOSES SOON
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May 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Registration for Term 3 closes soon.
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#Education #Psychology #Counselling
May 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM