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Clocking your Exams on Expert: Optimising your eating, sleeping and fitness to maximise your results.

In this session Alice shares her tips on food, sleep and fitness to maximise your exam results! Topics: Food: What sort of foods help nourish your brain/give you slow-release energy for 3-hour exams. What’s in season for mid-year/end of year exams. Study/Pre-exam snacks that can help you stay alert . Hydration nation – why water […]

AUTHOR TALK (Urban Legend Hunters)

In this session Joel will come at story-writing from the perspective of his new book URBAN LEGEND HUNTERS. How did he smoosh together poetic narration, urban legend spookiness, crazy-characters, adventurous-action, graphic novel style illustration and mass hilarity into ONE coherent story? And, more importantly, how can students begin to do the same? Joel will go […]

Story House Workshop

A fun, hands on workshop in which children create their own character and story using a diorama, and their fabulous imaginations! Anna shows the children a peep ‘behind the scenes’ of how a picture book is made, exploring how to find ideas, and how to develop them into stories and characters. The Story Houses made by the […]

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Building High Performance Teams

Great teams are energizing and productive, delivering breakthrough results. But high-performing teams only happen as a result of intentional, strategic work on your part, the team leader. Both research and practice demonstrate the advantages that teams bring to accomplishing goals. Building a successful team can be tough and challenging because it brings together a variety […]

Parent/Community Metal Health Session

Luke’s parent talk is deep! And at every one he does, there’s tears, laughs, plenty of Ahhhh moments, and the parents leave inspired, and with simple yet extremely effective take-home strategies to improve their connection with their kids, and also to improve their own mental health. The parent sessions are always a huge hit, and […]

Coping with Stress and Learning Resilience (Primary Years 3-6)

Luke receives messages daily from parents and teachers, they tell him about the huge improvements they’ve seen in the kids confidence and mental health since his visit. His angle on bullying is different from most. Sure, he briefly discusses the different forms of bullying, but his main focus for the talk is to work on […]

Author Talk – How I Failed My Way to Success

Teens are all too familiar with the emphasis our society places on success as a measure of worth. With lives that revolve around exams and test results, it can be hard for teens to see beyond. I was always a high achiever at school but made a series of epic mistakes in my quest to […]

Good Enough

There’s currently a great deal of pressure on kids and it starts when they’re very young. Academic pressure, extra-curricular pressure and social/emotional pressure. Everyone wants young students to achieve, but expecting instant results can thwart potential. A key factor of success, both emotional and academic, is the understanding that failure is part of the journey. […]

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Creatures of Imagination Block Printing

This is a fun and exciting workshop in which children are challenged by exploring the printmaking medium and using their fabulous imaginations! We discuss the process of creating a children’s picture book character, talk about shapes and textures within illustrations. How shape and colour is used to create personality in a character. During this time, […]

Are Women Invisible?

If the media is a portal through which we see the world, how does the conspicuous absence of women and their voices skew how people experience the world around them? The statistics of gender representation in the media and pop culture are very revealing. For example: Only around 20-30% of visible mainstream media roles are […]

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Top Study Strategies- The Ultimate Tips for Success

Vanessa had a number of hurdles and setbacks to deal with whilst progressing through the final years of school. She was working, playing State Level Sport and trying to maintain exceptional grades- all whilst her mother was being treated for her second bout of breast cancer. Very few family members had ever been to University, […]

Getting Away With Murder: CSI in the classroom.

Session description: A session for teachers and students of legal studies, using real life cases to bring the subject to life. In the Legal Studies course, students have to consider the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in achieving justice, and to look at reforms that could improve the system. Cold cases are extremely relevant, […]

The VCE Survival Guide

When Kate was younger she wanted to be all sorts of things when she grew up; a lawyer, a teacher, a mechanic, a shearer, a professional netballer, a roadside florist, a horticulturalist – she even wanted to be a vet (despite being allergic to fur). Finally she decided on the very sensible option of being […]

Little Lunch. A Lot Can Happen in Fifteen Minutes.

In the Little Lunch sessions I aim to give the audience an insight into the process of creating the Little Lunch series and discuss all the things you have to contend with when making a children’s book. I have a fairly informal light hearted approach and welcome questions from the audience throughout the session which […]

A Schooling in Manhood

Andrew Lines will present this session at Booked Out’s What’s Happening to Our Boys? event in Sydney. Our western culture has lost a number of powerful tools for transforming boys into good, strong men. Andrew has discovered over his 20 years of teaching that there are a number of essential experiences and learnings that a […]

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