Welcome to The Positive Schools 2012 mental health and wellbeing conference.
The Positive Schools Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference is for all teachersAustralia-wide. It offers inspirational, sustainable and practical solutions towell-being within schools and colleges. Effective education requires a firm foundation of ongoing wellbeing and positive mental health.
Positive Schools 2012. Two days in each of three states showcasing FORTY TWO main stage presentations and twenty seven interactive workshops.
In 2012 Positive Schools will be held in three separate locations, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne. In each location you will have the opportunity to attend both an exclusive MASTERCLASS day ‘Eyes Wide Open’ addressing s*xuality in the classroom and a packed MAIN CONFERENCE day featuring a variety of invited talks and interactive workshops.
DAY ONE – MASTERCLASS ‘Eyes Wide Open’
Meeting the experts with the answers. The Day One Masterclass “Eyes Wide Open’ will be hosted by Channel Ten’s top journalist and anchor woman SANDRA SULLY and will feature four keynote talks followed by an afternoon panel Q&A. Our experts include popular parenting psychologist and author MICHAEL CARR GREGG,author and media commentator MELINDA TANKARD REIST and s*xuality, s*xual identity expert HOLLY BRENNAN from Family Planning Queensland.We are also proud to include President of The Australian Council on Children and the Media, Professor Elizabeth Handsley from Flinders University school of Law.
Answering the questions that matter. “Eyes Wide Open’ will focus on issues of s*xuality in the classroom and on the need to find realistic and sustainable strategies for teachers to take on board. With seven year old girls wearing makeup and teenage boys endlessly surfing the net, s*xuality in Australian youth is an increasingly complex and controversial topic. Teachers need to have a sense of what is normal, what is abnormal, what is acceptable, what is intolerable and what is dangerous. Above all else, teachers need to know what they can realistically do in the classroom to support healthy development.
DAY TWO – MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE
Presenting solutions that make a difference. On the Friday of each event we will host a main conference day featuring TEN inspirational main stage talks at each event and TWELVE interactive workshops across four streams. The day’s presentations will cover a variety of subjects concerned with improving the mental health and wellbeing of Australian youth. Already confirmed at ALL THREE EVENTS is former Barnardos Australian Mother of the Year and Australian of the Year finalist BERNADETTE BLACK and, acclaimed parenting expert MICHAEL CARR-GREGG. Visit the location pages on this site to find out who else is speaking on the main stage.
Featuring evidence based workshops that work. The TWELVE interactive WORKSHOPS held at each of the three events will include an exclusive stream of three consecutive KIDSMATTER and MINDMATTERS workshops helping you adopt a sustainable whole school approach to wellbeing. In the other three streams we have nine in-demand workshops including Channel Ten guest psychologist HELEN STREET, introducing new strategies for staff wellbeing, MELINDA TANKARD REIST examining solutions to issues of s*xuality in the classroom, The VIRTUES project and EQ4KIDS. Other workshops will feature at one or more events. We introduce eSmart and restorative justice workshops to Perth and welcome both TONI NOBLE (Bounceback) and MEG ROCHE (You Can Do It! Education) to Brisbane and Melbourne
MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE - Both Perth and Melbourne events will host an expert panel discussion at the end of the main conference day with the aim of helping schools make effective choices for their own schools and classrooms and invest in effective and sustainable programs and stragegies.
In Melbourne the main day will end with a keynote address by best selling author and psychologist ANDREW FULLER. Andrew will let us know how to handle 'tricky kids' in every classroom.
DATES AND PLACES
Positive Schools 2012 will be held on 24th and 25th May 2012 in Perth, 7th and 8th June in Brisbane and 14th and 15th June in Melbourne. We expect over 2500 teachers to attend across the three events in addition to a strong media presence.
REGISTRATION
All places for 2011 and 2010 were sold in advance of the events.
Please book early to ensure your school is represented in 2012. Registration is already underway. You can register your own place at any of the three events using the form on this site.
Registration includes full catering, a conference satchel and handouts and entry to all talks, workshops and trade displays.
