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The Social Side of Wellbeing – an extract from Contextual Wellbeing By Dr Helen Street
(this is an extract from: Street, Helen (2018) Contextual Wellbeing: creating positive schools from the inside out, published by Wise Solutions) … It could…

Education 2020 – The Precious Things We have Lost and Found Dr Helen Street, Founder of the Positive Schools Initiative & author of Contextual Wellbeing
In this article I offer my thoughts on the impact of the Coronavirus and COVID-19 restrictions on social, emotional and academic learning in 2020….

Why Schools Need to Spend Less Time Thinking About Students (and More Time Thinking About Culture) Dr Helen Street
www.contextualwellbeing.com.au; www.positiveschools.com.au Over the past twenty years, there has been an increasing consideration of the role schools can, and indeed ‘should’ play in…

Contextual Wellbeing: Creating healthy school contexts to nurture flourishing students and staff By Dr Helen Street
Contextual Wellbeing is a systems-based approach to supporting equitable education, youth wellbeing and self-determination in all schools and colleges through the development of a…
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Learning to Be Dr Sue Roffey
Learning to Be is one of the four pillars of education described by Jacques Delors in his report for UNESCO on Education in the…

Sir Simon Rattle and Anxiety by Les Posen
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What are your strategies to build strong relationships with students? By Tom Brunzel
We know that successful students are able to form strong classroom relationships with both their teachers and their peers. The ability to form…

Introducing… The Circular Flow Model of Wellbeing by Jeremy G House
“The Circular Flow Model of Wellbeing (CFMW) holds that one has certain factors (time, attention and energy) of production, which are deployed by humans…

Creating a sense of belonging for staff – Three simple ideas by Therese Joyce
Therese Joyce is a former Positive Schools presenter and Director of Positive Education at The Peninsula School, a leading a day and boarding school…

THE RECOGNITION & MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT SLEEP DEPRIVATION IN THE CLASSROOM SETTING Dr Chris Seton
Sleep, nutrition & exercise are the 3 pillars of good health in adolescence. When these are optimal, teenagers are protected from multiple physical &…

RESEARCH STUDY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
PILOT STUDY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The relationship between the mental health protective factors and mental illness of parents and their adolescent children This project…

‘From one ‘N’ to many – understanding more about self and family as a way to wellbeing Leonie Abbott Berry Street Childhood Institute
When it comes to positive education, how often do you practice what you learn within your own context to fully feel and understand what…

Building Cohesion with Context and Concrete by Dr Helen Street
Whenever I have friends to dinner, especially those who don’t know me very well, I tidy up before they arrive. It sometimes seems ironic…

Infusing well-being into education: The Benefit Mindset BY ASH BUCHANAN
So, you want to become a positive school. It used to be enough to just run some positive programs. Simply hire a specialist, implement…

The Power of Positive Self-Talk by Meg Roche
I believe it is necessary to specifically teach students of all ages that they are responsible for their thoughts and the resulting feeling or…

Mental Health and Technology: An Integra4ve Approach To Wellbeing By Michael Carr-Gregg
How technology can help student’s mental health: A case study Dr Michael Carr-Gregg This hands on, practical, skills based workshop demonstrates how workers with…

Knowing Me Knowing You, In Search of a Deeper View of Well-being By Richard Pengelley
In this session we will explore some of the elements of deep communication with students. In a world “addicted” to busy-ness, performance, words and…

Nurturing resilience and wellbeing in children and young people: By David Bennett
“Children with high levels of social and emotional wellbeing are loved and safe, with positive family relationships, connections and support networks; they have a…

Reshaping Body Image By Thea O’connor
“I hate exercising around other people…and once I get toned up and really fit, then I’ll go and show off my body…it’s like how…