Maggie Dent

Parenting author and educator

Teaching children life skills to build their self-mastery

What you will learn...

  * Know how to be proactive in helping your children gain essential life skills so they are able to take care of their needs at an age-appropriate level.

  * Learn how to talk to your child in ways that builds self-mastery and self-esteem.
  * Have an understanding of the pathways to building emotional intelligence.
  * Be resourced with ways to teach your children how to cope with adversity, including failure an disappointment, and death and loss.

  *  Understand the power of humour in being a resilient human.

  * Know how to encourage your children to be flexible thinkers and solution-seeking.

About Maggie...

Commonly known as the ‘queen of common sense’, Maggie Dent has become one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators. She has a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience, and is an undisputed 'boy champion'. Maggie has written eight major books including the bestselling Mothering Our Boys and her 2020 release, From Boys to Men. She hosts the ABC podcast, Parental As Anything and in July 2021 released a book of the same name.

Find out more at www.maggiedent.com

Dr Justin Coulson

Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families 

Dealing with tweens, teens, and screens

What you will learn...

 Governing bodies with fancy sounding names trumpet policies about how much is “too much”. Academics wring their hands about how screens are crippling our kids. And we’re stuck in the middle, just pleading for the kids to get off the screen and help out around the house, do their homework, or be kind to their sibling! It doesn’t have to be that hard.

In this presentation, you’ll discover:·
  * Why the concept of ‘screen-time’ misses the point and leads to unhelpful conflict about tech·

  * How to eliminate the drama around screens with most kids in most situations without having to ‘ban’ devices·

  * What parents really need to worry about when it comes to screens, and what they can relax about·

  * The sneaky ways our kids are using screens without our knowledge

  * How we can make screens work in our family’s favour

This presentation will challenge your views, and change the way you talk about screens and tech in your home – for the better.

About Justin...

Struggling with his own family relationships, Justin returned to full time study in his late twenties where he earned first class honours and a subsequent PhD in Psychology so that he could learn how to be a better husband and father. Now the focus of his life is his family AND helping other families flourish – in that order. Justin has written 6 books, and is a four-time bestselling author. He is an occasional columnist for the New York Times and appears regularly in all of Australia’s major news outlets for television, radio, and print. He’s a TEDx speaker and has worked with many of Australia’s biggest brands including the Commonwealth Bank, Intel Security, ANZ, IHG, Club Med and many, many more. He has also served as a consultant to the Australian Government’s Raising Children Network, and the Office of the e-Safety Commissioner, Life Education and others. Justin lives with his wife and six daughters in Brisbane, Queensland.

Find out more at www.happyfamilies.com.au

Mona Delahooke

Mona Delahooke, Ph.D.

The relationship between resilience and self-regulation of behaviours and impulses

What you will learn...

  * How to understand behaviours better

  * The difference between a stress response and a purposeful misbehaviour

  * The role of co-regulation

  * Ways to help build resilience.

About Mona...

Mona Delahooke, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families. Dr. Delahooke holds the highest level of endorsement in the field of infant and toddler mental health in California, as a Reflective Practice Mentor (RPM). She is a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organisations, schools, and public agencies. Dr. Delahooke has dedicated her career to promoting compassionate, relationship-based neuro-developmental interventions for children with developmental, behavioural, emotional, and learning differences. She is the author of the award winning book Beyond Behaviours: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioural Challenges, and the upcoming book, Brain-Body Parenting. 

Find out more at www.monadelahooke.com

Megan Gallagher

Teach Lead Learn

Being the Calm in the Storm

At the end of this session, you will...

  * Know about different parenting styles 

  * Learn how to do the time-WARP as a parent
  * Know about a simple tool for after school meltdowns

  * Learn strategies to engage positively with school/teachers even when it is tough

  * Understand the importance of self compassion

About Megan...

Megan is a mum, teacher and self-confessed neuro-nerd. She is passionate about using what we know about how the brain develops to improve teaching and learning for our children.
When not teaching, writing or sharing learning Megan enjoys reading and spending time with her family and fur-kids.

Find out more at www.meggallagher.nz

Kari Sutton

 Author, Speaker, Consultant

Helping Kids Learn to Fail

What you will learn...

  Understand that:

  * Failure provides children with benefits they cannot receive in any other way. 

  * Protecting children from failure has been recognised to increase their vulnerability to emotional distress and future experiences of failure.
  * To develop resilience in our kids, we need to help them learn from their mistakes and failures and reframe them as an opportunity to learn, grow and improve.
  *Allowing their kids to be frustrated and uncomfortable is perfectly ok and in fact good for them 

  *And finally walk away with practical strategies you can use to help you children embrace and even celebrate failures and mistakes

About Kari...

Kari is an educator, speaker and author who has helped over 25,000 children, parents, and educators with evidence-based strategies, tools and approaches to foster children's positive mental health and plant the seeds of resilience and emotional wellbeing in our children.

Find out more at [email protected]

Kim Hopkins

Lives in the Balance

Moving From Power and Control to Collaboration and Problem Solving

What you will learn...

  * Why traditional rewards/consequences parenting doesn't work for many kids. 

  * Reasons why your child exhibits concerning behaviour (lagging skills).
  * When concerning behaviour is likely to occur for your child (unsolved problems).
  * Where to go for more free information to implement a respectful, effective model for handling unmet expectations/unsolved problems.

About Kim...

Kim is an independently licensed clinical social worker who has specialised in working with behaviourally challenging kids for more than 20 years. She has been a Collaborative & Proactive Solutions Trainer since 2007. Kim is also the Director of Outreach & Communication for Dr. Ross Greene’s non-profit, Lives in the Balance.

Find out more at www.livesinthebalance.org

Cat Levine

Think and Be Me

Helping Little People Deal with Big Feelings

What you will learn...

  * How fear, anxiety and worry affects your child’s brains and bodies.

  * How your own fear, anxiety and worry impacts your children.
  * Strategies to co-regulate your childrens big feelings.
  * Why naming feelings is so powerful, and how to develop your child’s emotional literacy

  * 5 things to say when your child has a big feeling.

  * How to use the ladder technique to help your child face their fears.

  * To recognise stinking thinking and replace with Cool Cat thinking.

About Cat...

Cat is the creator of Think and Be Me online resources and is one of New Zealand’s most sought-after school wellbeing speakers, and has toured with Mike King. Cats superpower is communicating complex concepts in a memorable fun way with her real-life stories and larger than life props.

Find out more at [email protected]

Kate Mason

The Personality Coach

Personalities, Parenting and Partners

At the end of this session, you will hear about...

  * Perception and how differently every person sees the world

  * The importance of understanding your own personality 

  * The importance of understanding your offspring

  * How we all parent differently, according to our type and often don't understand or don't like or value the other persons parenting style

  * How you parent can help you to see you and your partners strengths as a team (or individual strength) and work together parenting your kids

  * How you can best connect with your children

  * Ways to ensure your kids who are heard, understood and loved are happy resilient kids. 

About Kate...

Kate’s mission is to educate parents about the impact that personalities have on our parenting. She helps them to recognise themselves and their offspring’s personalities and gain an understanding on who they are.
She believes that educating parents will ultimately build a strong, resilient and emotionally intelligent generation.

Find out more at www.katemasonauthor.com

Nicole Telfer

EmpoweredKidsTV

The key skills kids need to thrive in a fast paced and uncertain era.

What you will learn...

  *  The key skills required for your child to thrive in this era.

  * The number one academic skill that is critical for success that most schools aren't teaching and how you can help close the gap.
  * Why we have the worse mental health in history among kids and young adults and how you can support your kids to build the mindset and resilience needed.
  * The three things families need to change to successfully meet the demands of this new era.

  *  Why this is the best time to redefine what family life looks like for you and how to create the family of your dreams no matter what.

About Nicole...

Nicole is an author, speaker life and family coach whose media platform serves families across the globe. A relentless agent for change, who is here to see how far she can push her own potential for connection, Nicole is working to radically shift the way we think about designing and creating our families. Her mission to end the cycle of conflict, help families heal and learn to connect more deeply. As the founder of EmpoweredKidsTV- Nicole has helped to develop workshops and programs that have transformed families by giving parents the tools to take the actions needed to solve some of the biggest challenges that families face in the 21st century. Nicole’s extraordinary story of transforming her own family life from one of blind disconnection, characterised by power struggles and control to leading a family that is willing to be open, vulnerable and self-compassionate in the pursuit of self-mastery and connection; is the foundation upon which she strives to help us all raise truly EmpoweredKids. 

Find out more at www.empoweredkidstv.com

Kim Hopkins

Emotional Intelligence Parent Coach

Raising Emotionally Intelligent Kids.

What you will learn...

  * What Emotional Intelligence is, and it's importance for kids 

  * Some of the risks and impacts of not having EQ as a child/teen
  * Practical strategies to start creating an emotionally intelligent family culture
  * How to manage big emotions at home using emotional intelligence.

  * Ways to defuse challenging behaviours in kids.

About Stephanie...

Stephanie is an Emotional Intelligence coach who specialises in helping parents to create an Emotionally Intelligent family culture at home. She is a certified Emotional Intelligence specialist, is a trained paediatric anxiety therapist, and practiced as a Speech Pathologist for 10 years.

Find out more at www.stephaniepinto.com

Jodi Richardson

Dr Jodi Richardson

Moving kids from anxiety to resilience

What you will learn...

  * What's happening in an anxious brain

  * How to recognise the signs and symptoms of anxiety
  * The difference between normal and problematic anxiety
  * The important role of parents

  * When and where to seek professional help for your child/ren

About Jodi...

An educational leader, Dr Jodi Richardson supports teachers, parents and other professionals to navigate the challenges of anxiety and to develop the skills and confidence to help their students and children. Jodi is an international speaker, the best-selling author of 'Anxious Kids' and 'Anxious Mums' and a respected media commentator. 

Find out more at drjodirichardson.com

Sarah Best

Parenting Thought Leader

Changing the world is child’s play: How powerful parenting can change our children’s lives and the world…

You will learn how to...

  * Understand the potential impacts of your actions and interactions with your children.

  * Recognise how your own parenting experiences as children have influenced your seemingly automatic reactions to children now.
  *Appreciate how our words create our world, and our children’s.
  * Understand the difference between assertive and aggressive (or passive aggressive) communication. 

  * Appreciate children’s (and all humans’) need to “be seen for who they are.”

  * Have strategies for interacting with children that reduce the risk of creating “unnecessary trauma.”

About Sarah...

International Author, Speaker, Facilitator and Parenting Thought Leader Sarah Amy Glensor Best is changing the world one powerful parenting conversation at a time. Sarah is mother to 3 teens and facilitates Powerful Parenting Retreats and other parent support experiences including coaching and writing. Her parenting passions include relationships, communication, play and getting REAL about the importance of parenting

Find out more at www.sarahagbest.global

Ela Strandberg

Consultant, author and ex teacher

Brain and Study Hacks - hack your way to successful learning

You will learn to...

  *  Know the brain and memory basics when it comes to learning

  * Use some of the brain functions to your children's advantage (work with the brain, not against it)
  * Use a  handful effective study techniques
  * How to successfully use the study techniques with your children

  * be acquainted with how praise can both reduce and increase motivation

About Ela...

Daniela is a mum and former teacher (and Escape Room creator) from Finland. She has created educational materials in Swedish that teach children, parents and teachers effective study techniques and how to increase motivation - make learning exciting, fun and achievable for everyone by working with the brain, not against it. Nowadays Daniela works as public speaker and author.

Find out more at brainandstudyhacks.com

Michael Hempseed

Author and Speaker

Practical Tips to Improve Sleep

Researchers believe that good sleep is more important to our well-being than eating well and exercise. Around the world more and more schools are heading the new research with impressive results, including better academic performance, lower truancy rates and overall better health.

What you will learn...

  * What good sleep looks like.
  * Why teenagers have a different sleep cycles and how can parents and schools accommodate this.

  * How poor sleep is related to bullying, mental illness and suicide.
  * Practical tips to improve your sleep.

About Michael...

Michael Hempseed is the author of Being A True Hero: Understanding and Preventing Suicide in Your Community. The book is being used by the New Zealand Police, Fire and Emergency NZ, GPs, Counsellors as well as many parents and teachers. Michael gained an honours degree in Psychology from the University of Canterbury in 2008. In 2016 he spoke at TEDx.

Find out more at www.beingatruehero.com

Judith Yeabsley

The Confident Eater

Creating Confident Eaters 

What you will learn...

  *A new approach creating a new dynamic

  * Why we feed like we read
  * How parents can make a difference
  * 7 simple, gentle steps to help a child taste and love new foods

  * Setting things up for success 

  * Building confidence

About Judith...

Judith is an AOTA accredited picky eating advisor. She works with 100+ families every year resolving fussy eating. She is the author of Creating Confident Eaters and Winner Winner I Eat Dinner. Her dream is that every child can approach food from a place of safety and joy, not fear.

Find out more at theconfidenteater.com

Jacqlin Richards

Parent Empowerment Mentor

Talking To Kids About Sex

What you will learn...

At the end of my session parents will:       

  * Understand where your relationship with sex comes from

  * Have awareness around the energy your bringing to the situation
  * Discover what's driving your thoughts, feelings and behaviour around the topic of sex
  * Find a way to make these conversations feel easy and natural

  * Know how to create the environment where your child will want to listen and hear what you have to say and actually WANT to talk to you and share what's going on for them

  *  Be able to and want to get comfortable in the uncomfortable around the topic of sex and everything related to it

About Jacqlin...

Aka The FREEDOM Finder for Parents, Jacqlin is a Mother of 2, Parent Empowerment Mentor, Speaker, Facilitator and Author who is deeply passionate about bringing greater awareness to the way we raise our children. The world has changed significantly and it’s time the way we parent changes with it.

Find out more at https://www.yourparentjourney.com

Shiraz Baboo

Reality Shifting Specialist

Common parenting beliefs that make things worse, not better

What you will learn...

  * That you've been living in your parents' programming. 

  * How your beliefs about yourself affect your kids
  * How common beliefs are actually limiting
  * Ways you can shift beliefs easily

  * How to recognise when you are thinking vs reacting

About Shiraz...

Award-Winning Author, International Speaker, and Reality Shifting Specialist, Shiraz, has helped thousands of people to rewrite their reality. He teaches you that the reality you live in is just the stories you’ve been taught about life. He helps change those stories, resulting in greater happiness and better relationships.

Find out more at https://www.shirazshifts.com

Dr. Ali Lankerani

Role Model Maker

Unlocking Your Child's Potential

What you will learn...

  * By the end of talk you will understand how the brain develops, functions, and keys to supporting it so that it can support your child.

About Dr. Ali...

Dr. Ali Lankerani, a clinical neuroscientist, is affectionately known by his patients as Dr. L, The Parent Whisperer. Dr. L is internationally published best-selling author, speaker and coach; Was twice-voted as one of America’s Top Doctors; Host of the TV channel 'Role Model Maker', and ran an award-winning private practice helping kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders. He currently runs online programs that support parents and their children, and encourages healthy development, and growing relationships. Dr. L enjoys being the active father of his two amazing kids and proudly serves as the founder of Amazing Parents’ Network. His mission is to promote brain-based healthcare options to support parents and their children to foster their optimum potential and their quest for personal fulfilment. You can find him regularly speaking at a variety of venues on health, lifestyle, and personal as well as child development.

Find out more at www.rolemodelmaker.com

Natalie Cutler-Welsh

Go to Girl Ltd

Up Your Brave - Maximising your Superpowers to boost your Confidence & Wellbeing

At the end of this session, you will...

  * Have identified your top 2 Superpowers

  * Understand how to use them and how to not 'max them out'

  * Have 2 actionable things you want to do to boost yours and your child's confidence

  * Have 2 actionable things you want to do to boost yours and your child's wellbeing

  * See a way to use this insight/knowledge to empower your family

About Natalie...

Natalie Cutler-Welsh is a Canadian-Kiwi, International speaker, parenting author, impact entrepreneur and mother of three. As a visibility and connections coach, Natalie specialises in helping “the people who help the people” to Up their Brave, Amplify their Impact and change the world for good. 

Find out more at www.nataliecutlerwelsh.com

Sean McCormick

Executive Function Specialists

Helping Your Child Transition to Adulthood With Stronger Executive Functions

What you will learn...

  * How to utilise a practical framework to self-evaluate your support style for enhancing your children's executive function skills

  * A list of strategies for using solution-focused questions that incorporate a youth’s perspective into the planning and support process

  * how Family Team Meetings (FTM) can be used to support youth toward transitioning to increased levels of independence 

About Sean...

Sean McCormick, MS Ed. is a parent, credentialed education specialist and international coach. He founded Executive Function Specialists, an education business that helps students and parents create more joy through personalised organisation systems, and also hosts the Earn More Tutoring Podcast, which helps educators build businesses that help students learn. 

Find out more at www.efspecialists.com

Ellie Bambury

Life Coach & Mentor

Helping your children navigate friendships, conflict and self-esteem

At the end of this session you will...

  * Feel more at ease with (and almost excited by) not having all the answers or solutions

  * Have some practical tools you can implement when it comes to helping your children navigate friendship troubles and conflict
  * Feel more empowered to explore some deeper topics with your children, in a none-threatening way
  *  Be more confident holding a safe, quiet space for your children and be able to simplify your complicated feelings with them

  * Gain a more holistic and broad perspective on what young people are facing and what they need/want from their families

  * Feel more comfortable with the turbulence of 'the wrong crowds' in your children's lives, and be able to see vital insights about your children, in every situation

About Ellie...

Author, Youth Life Coach and Mentor Ellie Bambury has broad experiences working in the 1-1 coaching space, running retreats, ongoing programs and one-off workshops for both young people and parents. Ellie's approach to her life and work is the same - keep growing, keep learning, keep expanding!

Find out more at

www.the-bigsisterproject.com