Wellbeing

Leader: Geenah Loughran

Yesterday Mrs Loughran, Mrs Tyler, Mrs Hill and Dani went to Melbourne to attend The resilience Project Teacher Seminar.

The Teacher Seminar is a fantastic opportunity for all educators (secondary, primary or early childhood) who:

Would like a refresher on The Resilience Project
Are new to teaching The Resilience Project curriculum
Are looking for more ideas to build resilience in their school
Would like to meet and network with other like-minded educators
Are not yet working with The Resilience Project, and would like to know more

The Teacher Seminar helps educators…

They attended 4 sessions which covered the following topics:

The staff were sent to Melbourne with 1 special mission- get a photo with Hugh or Martin. As you would have guessed, they were successful:

GEM CHAT

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The Imperfects Podcast

Perfectly Imperfect

Taking a risk, by definition, is hard. A lot of us spend most of our life avoiding risks, under the assumption that it’s the ‘safe’ thing to do.

As Dr Em explains, we have an evolutionary instinct for self-preservation; tendencies to overestimate danger and underestimate our ability to cope; and we often have early childhood experiences and messages around safety that can coalesce into ‘playing it safe’ behaviours.

In this episode, Dr Em reveals that paradoxically, if we spend our whole life avoiding risk, then we are guaranteeing a less engaged, less fulfilling, less ‘lived’ life than we are capable of. That in fact, avoiding risk, is the biggest risk of all.

Dr Em, also offers strategies to guide us in the direction of letting a little more risk into our everyday lives.

To watch this full episode on YouTube, follow this link: https://bit.ly/4dMUP0l