PARENT INFORMATION SESSIONS
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Strengthening the Partnership Between Home and School
Children thrive when the important adults in their lives work together. Whether your school is implementing the Emotional Schools Framework or your Parent Advisory Council is looking to support families, these presentations provide practical, encouraging, and research-informed strategies that help parents better understand children's emotional development and strengthen the connection between home and school. |
Option 1
Emotional Schools Parent Alignment Session
Designed for schools implementing the Emotional Schools Framework
90 minutes | $1000 + GST
This interactive session helps parents understand the same language and principles their children are experiencing at school, creating greater consistency between home and the classroom.
Parents will explore:
When families and schools share a common understanding, children experience greater consistency, stronger relationships, and a greater sense of emotional safety.
Emotional Schools Parent Alignment Session
Designed for schools implementing the Emotional Schools Framework
90 minutes | $1000 + GST
This interactive session helps parents understand the same language and principles their children are experiencing at school, creating greater consistency between home and the classroom.
Parents will explore:
- The foundations of the Emotional Schools Framework
- The Medicine Wheel and whole-child development
- Why adult regulation comes before child regulation
- The Regulate → Reflect → Restore process
- Building emotional intelligence at home
- Creating healthy routines, expectations, and boundaries
- Supporting children's emotional growth with confidence
When families and schools share a common understanding, children experience greater consistency, stronger relationships, and a greater sense of emotional safety.
Option 2
Raising Mentally Strong Kids of Good Character
Designed for PACs, PTAs, districts, and community organizations
120 minutes | $1,500 + GST
Based on Stop Raising Weak Kids, this engaging and thought-provoking keynote explores the challenges facing today's families while providing practical strategies parents can begin using immediately.
Parents will explore:
This presentation is honest, encouraging, practical, and grounded in more than 25 years of experience as a teacher, principal, father, and emotional intelligence practitioner.
Parents leave with greater clarity, renewed confidence, and practical tools for raising emotionally strong, respectful, and capable children.
Raising Mentally Strong Kids of Good Character
Designed for PACs, PTAs, districts, and community organizations
120 minutes | $1,500 + GST
Based on Stop Raising Weak Kids, this engaging and thought-provoking keynote explores the challenges facing today's families while providing practical strategies parents can begin using immediately.
Parents will explore:
- Why emotional regulation is the foundation of resilience and character
- The difference between protecting confidence and building resilience
- How overprotection can unintentionally weaken children
- How to teach children to lose, recover, and try again
- Building grit without sacrificing connection
- Why free play and structured play both matter
- How calm authority creates emotionally secure children
- Practical strategies families can implement immediately
This presentation is honest, encouraging, practical, and grounded in more than 25 years of experience as a teacher, principal, father, and emotional intelligence practitioner.
Parents leave with greater clarity, renewed confidence, and practical tools for raising emotionally strong, respectful, and capable children.
Travel & Expenses
Travel expenses (when applicable):
Travel expenses (when applicable):
- Hotel accommodation
- Meals ($75/day)
- Mileage ($0.75/km)
- Airfare, ferry and vehicle rental (if required)
