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The Three Brains

Learn more about wellbeing, mental and physical health - and how your body's 'three brains' work together like a rock band.

Go to the Gig Meet the Band

Monkey v Lizard

Take our fun quiz to figure out what kind of brain you are: the reactive Lizard, or the reflective Monkey?

Monkey v Lizard quiz Monkey v Lizard resources

Keep The Heid

Take our fun quiz and explore what happens under your lid. Does your heid hide a mighty lion tamer, contortionist, or an acrobat?

Keep The Heid quiz Keep The Heid resources

Cranial Cocktail

Meet your emotional homunculus, the part of the brain that uses feelings and emotions to decide how we will act and react.

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Learning Zone

Conflict has an effect on the brain that is felt in our bodies, emotions and behaviours, but not always recognised. The Learning Zone develops skills to help young people understand difficult emotions, regulate mood, and improve relationships with others.

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Young People

Ever wondered why you feel the way you do? Is it affecting your relationships? Growing up can be confusing and there are no instructions. The Learning Zone can help you make sense of your feelings, boost wellbeing and help you get on better with others.

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Professionals

The Learning Zone provides professionals with lesson plans, videos, and PowerPoints that break down information about what is going on in young people’s brain and body during different emotional states and how this affects decision making and behaviour.

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Parents and Carers

The Learning Zone helps parents and carers to understand the changes their teenagers experience during adolescence and how they can feed into family conflicts. It offers learning and support to help parents help their young people – and themselves – better control emotions.

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What I Learned at the SCCR

2025-07-03

By Aimee McDonald

Three Ways to Remain Calm When Your Teen Pushes Your Buttons

2025-05-22

By Colin Waters

Five Ways to Calm a Heated Family Argument

2025-05-20

By Colin Waters

Why Can’t My Child Wake Up and Get Ready for School on Time?

2025-05-20

By Aimee McDonald

It Takes All Kinds of Minds

2025-05-13

By Aimee McDonald

Status Quo or Status No: Rethinking Mental Health in Education

2025-04-24

By

Recovering from Violence: Lessons from Lived Experience

2025-04-22

By

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Family Conflict

2025-04-03

By Colin Waters (with help from NHS Fife's Fiona Petrie)

A Day in the Life of a Cyrenians Mediator

2025-01-23

By Alan Jeffrey

Our Mediator and Mediation Skills Training course

2024-11-12

By Colin Waters

The BIG Family Event: Welcome to the Team

2024-10-31

By Colin Waters

World Homeless Day 2024: Homelessness and Mental Health

2024-10-10

By Aimee McDonald

Trauma and Young People's Brains

2024-09-18

By Aimee McDonald

Calling parents and carers of young people aged between 12 and 24!

2024-09-05

By Colin Waters

International Youth Day: From Clicks to Progress

2024-08-09

By Aidan Overton

Childhood Trauma and Brain Development

2024-08-07

By Aimee McDonald

Giving Young People the Space to Grow

2024-07-19

By Colin Waters

Young Scot and the Learning Zone

2024-07-10

By Colin Waters

Is gambling affecting your relationship? You’re not alone

2024-07-02

By Laura Mallis

Two Years, Three Brains: Celebrating A Resource for Emotional Regulation

2024-06-17

By Colin Waters

Mental Health Awareness 2024: Movement, Learning, Drawing

2024-05-08

By Colin Waters

In the Zone

2024-04-24

By Ellie Goddard

Enter the Learning Zone

2024-04-19

By Colin Waters

A Warm Reception: SCCR at the Scottish Parliament

2024-04-04

By Colin Waters

Happy tenth birthday, SCCR!

2024-03-28

By Colin Waters

International Women's Day 2024

2024-03-08

By Caroline Ross

Oh, What A Circus! Happy Birthday, Keep the Heid

2024-02-09

By Duncan Gordon

Children's Mental Health Week: Family Matters

2024-02-06

By Alan Jeffrey

Family Mediation Week: How the UNCR underlines the work of Mediation & Support

2024-01-25

By Jo Harknett

Family Mediation Week: Empowering families

2024-01-23

By Kerry Watson

Family Mediation Week: My experience as a student mediator

2024-01-22

By Lyndsay, Mediation & Support

Getting a round of Cranial Cocktails in - Happy Birthday, Emotional Homunculus

2024-01-12

By Colin Waters

What are the biggest challenges facing mediators today?

2023-12-12

By Colin Waters

The Twelve Days of Christmas Conflict Resolution

2023-12-12

By Colin Waters

How to become a mediator in Scotland

2023-12-05

By Colin Waters

What qualities make for a good mediator?

2023-11-28

By Colin Waters

Mediation - What counts as success?

2023-10-27

By Alan Jeffrey

The 'Magic Wand' Request: Thoughts for Conflict Resolution Day

2023-10-13

By Alan Jeffrey

How to Create More Trauma-Informed Responses in Schools

2023-10-11

By Colin Waters

Nurturing Positive Relationships: Reflections on World Homeless Day

2023-10-10

By Colin Waters

Changing Lives, One Ripple at a Time

2023-10-04

By Colin Waters

Ripples: Our October Conference

2023-09-22

By Colin Waters

World Teachers Day

2023-09-13

By Colin Waters

The SCCR responds to the Scottish Government's latest youth homelessness figures

2023-08-29

By Colin Waters

Stress Test: Tips for young people on how to avoid arguments at home caused by exam results

2023-08-01

By Colin Waters

Transforming Conflict, Improving Lives: a new report by Cyrenians Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution

2023-06-17

By Colin Waters

A Course of Mediation

2023-06-01

By Colin Waters

Mental Health Awareness Week

2023-05-11

By Colin Waters

10 Strategies to Help with Exam Stress

2023-05-09

By Aidan Overton

Home and Survey: the SCCR National Survey 2023

2023-04-24

By Colin Waters

Brain Awareness Week

2023-03-14

By Ellie Goddard

Only Connect - British Science Week 2023 and the SCCR

2023-03-10

By Colin Waters

Making an Exhibition of Ourselves

2023-02-20

By Colin Waters

How Family Conflict Affects Childhood Mental Health

2023-02-02

By Hannah-Kelly Tay

'It was bad': Young People, Mental Health and What We Do Next

2023-02-02

By Duncan Gordon

For the Sake of the Children - How to reach agreements about the future care of children after separation or divorce

2023-01-19

By Rosanne Cubitt

Family Mediation Week 16th – 20th January 2023

2023-01-18

By Andrew Boyd

Happy Birthday, UNCRC

2022-11-17

By Duncan Gordon

The Three Brains Playlist

2022-11-14

By Colin Waters

Conflict Resolution Day 2022

2022-10-20

By Jim Gray

Having the Power to Untangle our Knots: A person account

2022-10-18

By Danielle Shull

'Violence is preventable, not inevitable': International Day of Non-Violence 2022

2022-09-26

By Professor Niven Rennie

#HaveYourSay – SCCR National Survey 2022

2022-09-07

By Colin Waters

Becoming the change we want to see

2022-08-30

By Ewan Aitken

Testing Times: How to avoid arguments over exam results

2022-08-01

By Colin Waters

Yoga as the Mediator between our Hearts and Minds

2022-06-20

By Natalie Young

Autistic Pride 2022

2022-06-15

By Dr Catriona Stewart OBE

The Three Brains

2022-06-13

By Colin Waters

Global Parent Day 2022: Nurture and Love

2022-05-27

By Duncan Gordon

Keep the Heid and Read

2022-05-06

By Colin Waters

Deafness in the Pandemic

2022-05-02

By Rubbi Brown, Sophie Gray, Murray Neilson and John Ward

Co-producing a Podcast

2022-01-24

By Ashley

Emotional Homunculus - Happy Anniversary!

2022-01-17

By Colin Waters

Four Reasons to Read with Your Kids

2021-11-25

By Jayla Benjin

Anxious and Afraid in a Time of Climate Change

2021-11-05

By Colin Waters

Happiness Hints

2021-10-08

By Aiden

The Power of Reconnection Conference 2021

2021-09-24

By Colin Waters

Resilience – Our buoyancy aid

2021-04-19

By Jo Harknett, Family Mediator

A young person’s top tips for how parents can support their children’s mental health

2021-02-26

By Aidan

Are we doing okay?

2021-01-18

By Andrew Boyd, Mediator

Everyday gifts of kindness

2020-12-15

By Karen Holford

This is your permission to feel

2020-12-15

By Sarah Philp

My experience of SCCR's International Conference: A blog by Drew Drummond

2020-12-10

By Drew Drummond

Top tips for 12 Days of Christmas Kindness

2020-12-08

By Rachel Lee

Keep the Heid: A young person’s reflection on taming the beast of anger

2020-11-12

By Aidan

My experience of SCCR’s International Conference: A blog by Gordon McKinlay

2020-11-10

By Gordon McKinlay

Resilience and Reassurance: A message for young people from Sarah King

2020-08-05

By Rachel Lee

Worry and stress: A message for young people

2020-07-22

By Gordon McKinlay

Perspective, mental health and art with Creative Natives’ Jennifer Hunter

2020-06-23

By Rachel Lee

Perspective, mental health and art with SMHAF artist Lauren Stonebanks

2020-06-04

By Rachel Lee

Exploring the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Theme of Perspective

2020-05-26

By Hannah Foley

Mental Health, Conflict and Kindness

2020-05-23

By Andrew Boyd

Mental Health Awareness Week: Kindness

2020-05-21

By Stephen O'Rourke

Young Scot in Partnership with SCCR

2020-05-13

By Louise Macdonald OBE

A day out at the SCCR Conference

2020-04-09

By Pupils from Dalziel High and Mrs Nielsen

Love is all you need…

2020-04-06

By Ewan Aitken

Giving Children and Young People a Voice

2020-01-22

By Andrew Boyd

Fire-retardant relationships

2019-12-04

By Karen Holford

#FiveYears

2019-12-02

By Diane Marr

A Reflection

2019-11-27

By Untangling the Knots 3 day Training Delegate

Listening Well

2019-11-18

By Karen Holford

What does Remembrance Day mean to you?

2019-11-11

By Richard Henderson

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict”

2019-09-23

By Abbey Krause

Participating, Confronting while Impressing – Reflections of shadowing a family mediator

2019-08-12

By Haley Weir

Keep Talking

2019-07-30

By Sandra Mitchell

On Forgiveness

2019-07-08

By Carolyn Hirst

Global Day of Parents

2019-06-03

By Duncan Gordon

Collaboration is key

2019-05-16

By Dr Stephen Breslin

Louder is not always clearer!

2019-05-15

By Aidan

A blink of an eye…5 years on – a personal perspective

2019-04-02

By Duncan Gordon

Building a caring culture: the science of love

2019-02-14

By Ewan Aitken

Giving Children and Young People a Voice when Parents Separate – How Mediation can Help

2019-01-21

By Rosanne Cubitt

Message in a Bottle

2018-10-26

By Githa Overton

Clicking Into Place

2018-10-08

By Graham Boyack

A Highly Emotional Game

2018-10-05

By Aidan

Compelling case to roll-out free digital resources…

2018-10-04

By Diane Marr

Mirror Mirror on the Wall…

2018-07-25

By Dr Rose Williams

Innovative solutions to problems rooted in the past

2018-06-26

By Diane Marr

Conflict & Mental Health – a chicken and egg situation?

2015-10-09

By Andrew Boyd

What has mindfulness ever done for me?

2015-09-18

By Githa Overton

Dealing With My Childhood Anger – Life Lessons From A Martial Arts Champion

2015-08-14

By Raz Chan

The Daemon Called Anger

2015-07-23

By Raka Tavashmi

Normalising, or trying to make mediation a more common solution

2014-07-29

By Paul Burns

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