A one day workshop
Positive Education aims to embed the principles of positive psychology in your school with the aim of improved student well being and academic performance. Positive Psychology has led to a number of applications and interventions used in the classroom which focuses on specific skills that assist students to strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience and happiness. Understand the science of Positive Psychology in Education and arm yourself with a toolkit of strategies for your school. Suitable for teachers P-12.
​Content:
1. Introduction to Positive Psychology
  • The science of Positive Psychology
  • Benefits to staff and students with Positive Psychology principles in your school
  • Measurement tools
2. Positive Relationships
  • Enhancing communication
  • Strengthening connections and supporting
  • Develop social and emotional skills
  • Flourishing.
​​3. Positive engagement 
  • Flow activities
  • Strengths-based approach to wellbeing
  • Immersion in activities through understanding the nature of engagement, the pathways to it, and the impact it has on individual wellbeing
​​4. Positive emotions 
  • Develop a stronger understanding of emotions and those of others
  • Experience and savour positive emotions such as joy, love, gratitude and contentment
  • Characteristics of emotional health and resilience
5. Positive meaning
  • Developing meaning and purpose
  • Encouraging values-based mindset and behaviour
  • Explores understanding, believing in, and serving something greater than the self
  • Engaging in activities for the benefit of others
About the Presenter Kate Cooper
With a background of over 25 years of experience as a psychologist Kate specialises in training that helps people tackle the complex challenges to their physical and psychological health. She has worked as a mediator, counsellor, trauma manager, facilitator and public speaker. Her work has been across Education, corporate and not for profit sectors such as beyondblue.
Workshops in areas such as mindfulness, anxiety, depression, sleeping better, stress management, neuroscience and resilience have been engaging and filled with ideas participants can immediately apply to their work and to their own life.
​Kate has presented mindfulness to a diverse range of organisations from the Victorian Supreme Court, to the Glen Eira Council.
​As a professional communicator, she is passionate about maximising benefits to participants and ensuring they experience an optimum learning environment in all of her professional development workshops.
Kate is a member of the Victorian Psychologists Registration Board and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS
   HAVE SAID...

- I went to the Mindfulness PD, this is another fantastic session. So much to think about and report on.

- ​Great how it fits into everything we do!

- It was fantastic and I plan to implement what I have learnt into my classroom.

- Excellent materials. Variety of presentation and practical involvement.

- ​Great resources to bring into schools. Thank you :)

- Thank you Kate it was a great day and we have already incorporated so many mindfulness activities into our school as part of our SEL programme - I've got way more plans though! Thanks again.

​- Absolutely engaging and informative. Structured so well - especially after lunch when people usually lose focus! Thank you!

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