Presentations
Can be delivered as keynote and workshops
at your workplace or nominated venue in Australia or Asia.
TRAUMA AWARE EDUCATION
Managing Student Behaviour due to Trauma & Disorganised Attachment
Grounded in attachment theory and neuroscience research, this seminar will explore why these children and young people often defy rules and authority, can sabotage even the most supportive of relationships and can continually put themselves at-risk. Participants will explore the reasons why students who have experienced trauma and a poor attachment to their primary caregiver/s in early childhood – behave in the way they do in primary and secondary school. This is a “must do training” for all school personnel who work with students with extreme and challenging behaviour, who have suffered trauma and maltreatment. Professionals who receive referrals from schools to assist with difficult students, will also find this training valuable in understanding the challenges teachers/schools face and the effective strategies that can be used to manage behaviour and support out of school therapeutic interventions.
Duration: 6 hours (1 day) workshop to educators and professionals
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia
OVERCOMING SCHOOL REFUSAL
Answers to questions teachers, counsellors and parents need to know!
This interactive, one day workshop explores the causes, co-morbidities and treatment of School Refusal in children and young people, along with providing step-by-step plans and strategies for educators, health professionals and parents to identify and address the problem. Combining educational and clinical perspectives, the workshop uses real case studies to demonstrate the varied reasons students disengage from school, and how tailored interventions and return to school plans, can meet the specific needs of individual children. This instructive workshop identifies and explores the complex workings of School Refusal and provides a structured best-practice approach to overcoming it. Translating research and jargon into understanding and practical strategies this workshop is suitable for all principals and educators (P-12), health professionals, GPs, paediatricians, family support workers, residential carers, MH day-program staff, and parents/ carers.
Duration: 7 hours (1 day) workshop to professionals or parents.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
EMOTION COACHING
4.84 out of 5 ⭐
Promoting Positive Behaviour, Wellbeing and Resilience
Based on research by American Psychologist John Gottman, Emotion Coaching uses moments of heightened emotion and resulting behaviour to guide and teach the child and young person about more effective responses. Through empathetic engagement the child's emotional state is verbally acknowledged and validated, promoting a sense of security and feeling 'felt'. This activates changes in the child's neurological system and allows the child to calm down, physiologically and psychologically. Emotion Coaching has been shown to be highly successful in schools (primary and secondary) and community settings.
Duration: 7 hours (1 day) workshop to educators and professionals
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia
BETTER BEHAVIOUR
Behaviour changing strategies for schools and teachers
Better Behaviour workshops provide teachers and their leaders with an overall review of classroom teaching practice and the practical way that this impacts on student behaviour.The workshop details the everyday interactions of teachers and students and draws attention to how these can be modified to get more engaged, respectful relationships and better learning.The workshop details a plethora of small but powerful techniques that focus teachers on meeting students’ needs before teaching them specific skills in a sequence that turns challenging behaviour around in an instant.
Duration: 6 hours (1 day) workshop to educators and professionals
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia
WHAT TO DO WITH PARENTS WHO...
Answers to questions teachers and schools are afraid to ask
Communicating with parents is a challenging and stressful task teachers and principals face on a daily basis. Whether trying to engage an avoidant parent or handle a complaint, it is essential to know how to initiate contact, handle difficult situations, establish positive relationships, recognise when a parent is right, stop problems before they escalate to the main office and never let ‘em see you sweat. But dealing with parents, often leaves teachers and schools feeling out of their depth or on the back foot. Dynamic, insightful and practical this is must do training for graduates to old school teachers wanting to know how to deal with sticky situations they don’t teach in college/ uni.
Duration: 6 hours (1 day) workshop to educators and professionals
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia
INDEPENDENCE in the CLASSROOM
Strategies for Students with ASD
Independence can open the door to a range of learning and social opportunities, which is why parents and teachers consider it an important area to develop for the learner with ASD. Achieving a level of independence is possible by adopting teaching approaches which focus on the ASD learning style. Such an approach is the TEACCH® framework. In this one-day workshop you will be introduced to the principles of TEACCH® and the elements that support their learning style. The elements of TEACCH® include the physical structure, work systems, visual structure and visual schedules. Through scenarios and hands-on activities, you will learn to apply these elements and reflect on their application to learners that you currently work with.
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
TEACHING COMPLEX, HARD TO REACH, DISRUPTIVE AND TRAUMATISED STUDENTS
Teaching students who live with trauma is no easy task but schools who have a whole-school based approach that uses data to inform methodologies, monitor progress and reflect on successes is the most impactful way to approach transforming schools to be more trauma-informed. This workshop helps align mental health and behaviour management to create better ways to teach difficult complex and hard to reach students so that trauma-informed practice is incorporated into the culture and climate of a school in a way that it becomes part of the identity of the way that school operates.
It's ultimate aim is to help teachers and students find meaning and purpose in their work together, by developing a positive vision for the future and an internal drive that motivates them to do their best for each other.
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
BOYS BEHAVIOUR
Boys have not been doing well in school this century, boys’ scientific literacy is decreasing faster than that of girls, and their reading levels are one school year behind that of girls. Australia had one of the worst student reports of disciplinary climate in 2018, and schools with at least 60% boys had a poorer disciplinary climate than those in all OECD countries. Add to this, community concerns about toxic masculinity, male violence against women and sexual misconduct, paints a disturbing picture of male development. This highly practical but intensely challenging workshop does a deep dive into the research behind issues that beset boys at school and shows how we can help boys learn tactics that help them turn the key to teaching boys that allows them to be active learners, not passive recipients of information.
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
AMAZING POWER of SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
Student leaders can transform how your school operates, dreams, and achieves. However, the greatest change that enables this is how we as adults must change our mindsets to enable the growth to happen. By encouraging students to have more of a role in your school and preparing teachers and administrators to be genuinely open to listen to, learn from, and lead with those students is the key to meaningful and sustainable whole school change. This vibrant, engaging workshop details the practical steps needed to open teachers and administrators minds and provides many practical steps that improve student engagement in the classroom and provide incredible insight when planning and organising virtually any activity in the school.
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
REGENERATING RESILIENCE
Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress but many young Australian children lack the self-awareness to cope with the most trivial of adversities. With the right support, children can be empowered with the skills, knowledge, and grit to manage disappointment and challenge and move forward with courage and strength. Offering a range of practical and powerful strategies to assist administrators, teachers, and parents to help respond effectively to students at different developmental levels.
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
YOU CAN’T CORRECT IF YOU DON’T CONNECT
Loaded with strategies, techniques, and ideas designed to prevent motivation and discipline problems in the most difficult classrooms. Complex students are easy to find, and their numbers are increasing. Providing teachers, behaviour coordinators, teacher assistants and support personnel with clear strategies, techniques, and ideas designed to prevent discipline problems and build motivation for complex, hard to teach, disinterested and disruptive students
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
GETTING STUFF DONE
Leading from the Middle
How do we lead people to work happily together towards new goals and directions? This fast paced, entertaining, and practical day that will enable middle leaders and coordinators to explore the skills, resources, activities, materials, and experiences which help coordinate:
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Connecting and building a team
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Mentoring and developing talent
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Transform meeting protocols
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Helping everyone to adapt to change
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Researching and developing innovation
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Innovating by borrowing
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Gathering data to better understand students’ needs
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Delivering quality learning
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Establishing goal setting and innovating through goal setting
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Getting routines right
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.
THE DIFFERENTIATOR’S MINDSET
Differentiation is a sequence of common-sense decisions made by teachers with a student-first orientation. Differentiation recognises that even the most homogenous of classes has a spread of talent, skill, behaviour, and knowledge. Even though Australia is hobbled by one of the worst curriculums in the world, there is a rock-solid strategic set of steps to creating a classroom that responds to the needs of the students. This workshop will detail how a classroom can move from ad hoc strategies for individual students to cooperative, skill filled classrooms that engage and motivate all students.
Duration: 6.5hrs (1 day) workshop to professionals.
Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.