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    This is your home for everything wellbeing education. We're so glad you're here.

    Use the menu above to browse and register for events or catch up on community news. Soon you will also be able to explore wellbeing concepts through PESA's guides and connect with your local chapter.

    Our resource library grows with every member who shares. This space is yours as much as ours - tell us what you'd love to see via team@pesa.edu.au or share a resource here. 

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    PESA Adopts New Constitution at 2026 AGM
    Thank you to everyone who joined us for PESA's 2026 Annual General Meeting. Read on for a reflection, including links to the minutes, full Chair ...
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    When Wellbeing is at the Heart of Teaching and Learning
    When wellbeing sits at the heart of teaching and learning, not added on top, but embedded in a school's culture, something wonderful happens. ...
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    A heartfelt message from PESA’s Chair and CEO
    Ee are writing with deep concern following the recent antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community, the ...
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    Chair Report and Minutes from PESA’s 2025 AGM
    Thank you to everyone who joined us for PESA’s 2025 Annual General Meeting. Each year, this gathering reminds us just how powerful our community ...
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    2025 Conference Reflection from PESA’s Chair, Leonie Abbott
    What Wood Ducks can teach us about noticing and connection.
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    PESA’s New Ambassador
    On behalf of the PESA Board, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new PESA Ambassador, Dr Anne Johnstone.
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    PESA Adopts New Constitution at 2026 AGM
    Thank you to everyone who joined us for PESA's 2026 Annual General Meeting. Read on for a reflection, including links to the minutes, full Chair ...
    When Wellbeing is at the Heart of Teaching and Learning
    When wellbeing sits at the heart of teaching and learning, not added on top, but embedded in a school's culture, something wonderful happens. ...
    A heartfelt message from PESA’s Chair and CEO
    Ee are writing with deep concern following the recent antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community, the ...
    Chair Report and Minutes from PESA’s 2025 AGM
    Thank you to everyone who joined us for PESA’s 2025 Annual General Meeting. Each year, this gathering reminds us just how powerful our community ...
    2025 Conference Reflection from PESA’s Chair, Leonie Abbott
    What Wood Ducks can teach us about noticing and connection.
    PESA’s New Ambassador
    On behalf of the PESA Board, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new PESA Ambassador, Dr Anne Johnstone.
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    NSW Event: Navigating Life's Challenges with Resilience — with Professor James Pawelski
    NSW Event: Navigating Life's Challenges with Resilience — with Professor James Pawelski

    📍 Cranbrook School, Bellevue Hill NSW
    📅 Wednesday 19th Aug 2026. Please register by 17th August.

    Join us for this engaging and inspirational event!

    Navigating Life's Challenges with Resilience with Professor James Pawelski from the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Centre
    Senior School Chapel, 6pm-7pm
    For educators and school leaders, this is a rare chance to learn directly from Professor James Pawelski, Director of Education and Senior Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Centre, drawing on nearly three decades of research into how people don't just survive adversity, but grow through it. He'll introduce the emerging field of positive humanities and share practical, research-informed strategies for building resilience and wellbeing that you can take straight back to your school and your own life.

    'Seeing Happy' Exhibition
    Governor's Ballroom, 5:30pm-6pm
    Arrive from 5.30pm for a light supper and a preview of 'Seeing Happy', a Cranbrook student photo exhibition exploring hope, connection and belonging. Created in collaboration with Mandy Seligman, the exhibition offers a genuine source of inspiration for practice for schools in attendance.

    NSW Event: Our Table: Southern Highlands Wellbeing Forum
    NSW Event: Our Table: Southern Highlands Wellbeing Forum

    📍 Southern Highlands, NSW (Bowral Memorial Hall and Berrima Public School)
    📅 Monday 31st Aug, Thursday, 3rd Sept and Friday 4th Sept 2026

    A wonderful opportunity for the whole community - families, schools and neighbours - to slow down, take a seat at the table, and reconnect through honest conversation and real, in-person connection.

    Attend one or several workshops and community sessions across three days, in collaboration with Burn Bright Australia, Dr Arne Rubinstein OAM, and PESA Wellbeing Education.

      

    From Buy-In to Built-In: Making Wellbeing Stick
    From Buy-In to Built-In: Making Wellbeing Stick

    📍 Online via Zoom

    📅 Tuesday 3rd November 2026

    ⏰ 5pm-6pm AEDST

    🎟️ Registration:

    PESA members: free registration.

    Non-members: $30 donation to support PESA’s ongoing professional learning program. Includes 1 month access to the recording.

    Download brochure

    NSW Event: Navigating Life's Challenges with Resilience — with Professor James Pawelski
    NSW Event: Navigating Life's Challenges with Resilience — with Professor James Pawelski

    📍 Cranbrook School, Bellevue Hill NSW
    📅 Wednesday 19th Aug 2026. Please register by 17th August.

    Join us for this engaging and inspirational event!

    Navigating Life's Challenges with Resilience with Professor James Pawelski from the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Centre
    Senior School Chapel, 6pm-7pm
    For educators and school leaders, this is a rare chance to learn directly from Professor James Pawelski, Director of Education and Senior Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Centre, drawing on nearly three decades of research into how people don't just survive adversity, but grow through it. He'll introduce the emerging field of positive humanities and share practical, research-informed strategies for building resilience and wellbeing that you can take straight back to your school and your own life.

    'Seeing Happy' Exhibition
    Governor's Ballroom, 5:30pm-6pm
    Arrive from 5.30pm for a light supper and a preview of 'Seeing Happy', a Cranbrook student photo exhibition exploring hope, connection and belonging. Created in collaboration with Mandy Seligman, the exhibition offers a genuine source of inspiration for practice for schools in attendance.

    NSW Event: Our Table: Southern Highlands Wellbeing Forum
    NSW Event: Our Table: Southern Highlands Wellbeing Forum

    📍 Southern Highlands, NSW (Bowral Memorial Hall and Berrima Public School)
    📅 Monday 31st Aug, Thursday, 3rd Sept and Friday 4th Sept 2026

    A wonderful opportunity for the whole community - families, schools and neighbours - to slow down, take a seat at the table, and reconnect through honest conversation and real, in-person connection.

    Attend one or several workshops and community sessions across three days, in collaboration with Burn Bright Australia, Dr Arne Rubinstein OAM, and PESA Wellbeing Education.

      

    From Buy-In to Built-In: Making Wellbeing Stick
    From Buy-In to Built-In: Making Wellbeing Stick

    📍 Online via Zoom

    📅 Tuesday 3rd November 2026

    ⏰ 5pm-6pm AEDST

    🎟️ Registration:

    PESA members: free registration.

    Non-members: $30 donation to support PESA’s ongoing professional learning program. Includes 1 month access to the recording.

    Download brochure

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    Curiosity Check and the Ask Approach
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    Curiosity Check and the Ask Approach
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    Communicating with Today's Parents: McCrindle Research and RoundTable
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    Communicating with Today's Parents: McCrindle Research and RoundTable
    What do parents expect from schools when it comes to communication? PESA attended a round table to discuss the results of the research paper: "Communicating with Today's Parents" where 1000 parents were surveyed in February 2026. Author: Research by McCrindle. Article by PESA
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    Connection IS The Content: A Pathway to Wellbeing
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    Connection IS The Content: A Pathway to Wellbeing
    Mark Colalrd is an experiential trainer, author and founder of playmeo, the ultimate toolkit of icebreakers, energisers and team-building activities, used by thousands of teachers worldwide. This interatctive session explores tghe latest science and reserach whhich supports and encourages the intentioanl development of wellbeing as the central focus of group-based programs. This session presents a series of fun group activities which can easily be integrated into your exitsing curriculum to help your students feel valued, supported included. Mark Collard, Experiential Traininer, Author and CEO of Playmeo
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    The Space Between Knowing and Doing
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    The Space Between Knowing and Doing
    Presented by Sue Chandler, Founder of Transformative Schools. Why Relational Practice Requires a Shift from Control to Curiosity.
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    2026 PD Wrap Up: The Space Between Knowing and Doing
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    2026 PD Wrap Up: The Space Between Knowing and Doing
    Sue Chandler, Founder of Transformative Schools) presents the Relational Practice Bridge, a framework for shifting school culture from control to curiosity. Through three "stories" (the discipline biographies we inherit, the theories of change we adopt, and the patterns our systems reinforce), she explores why relational practice is hard to sustain and how educators can build genuine accountability through understanding rather than consequences. Author/Source: PESA and Sue Chandler, Transformative Schools
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    A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
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    A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
    Presented by Michelle McKersey: Deputy Head of Secondary (Students), Moreton Bay College. Shifting from rules to relationships and from conflict to connection.
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    2026 PD Wrap Up: A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
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    2026 PD Wrap Up: A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
    Building on our Term 1 focus on creating a strong community from day one, we welcomed Michelle McKersey, Deputy Head of Secondary at Moreton Bay College to explore a whole‑school approach to restorative practice. In this session, Michelle contrasted restorative, relational approaches to behaviour with traditional punitive models and highlighted Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) as a proactive, preventative strategy within a restorative framework. Author/Source: PESA and Michelle McKersey, Moreton Bay College.
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    Creating a Wellbeing Environment: Positive Leadership Practices
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    Creating a Wellbeing Environment: Positive Leadership Practices
    “Authentic leaders are genuine in their intentions and understand the purpose of their leadership is to serve their community not their self-interest.” - Daniel Goleman Author: PESA with contributions from Kerrin Smith.
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    Curiosity Check and the Ask Approach
    Curiosity Check and the Ask Approach
    Website Display In Development
    Communicating with Today's Parents: McCrindle Research and RoundTable
    Communicating with Today's Parents: McCrindle Research and RoundTable
    What do parents expect from schools when it comes to communication? PESA attended a round table to discuss the results of the research paper: "Communicating with Today's Parents" where 1000 parents were surveyed in February 2026. Author: Research by McCrindle. Article by PESA
    Research Summary Article In Development
    Connection IS The Content: A Pathway to Wellbeing
    Connection IS The Content: A Pathway to Wellbeing
    Mark Colalrd is an experiential trainer, author and founder of playmeo, the ultimate toolkit of icebreakers, energisers and team-building activities, used by thousands of teachers worldwide. This interatctive session explores tghe latest science and reserach whhich supports and encourages the intentioanl development of wellbeing as the central focus of group-based programs. This session presents a series of fun group activities which can easily be integrated into your exitsing curriculum to help your students feel valued, supported included. Mark Collard, Experiential Traininer, Author and CEO of Playmeo
    Webinar/Video
    The Space Between Knowing and Doing
    The Space Between Knowing and Doing
    Presented by Sue Chandler, Founder of Transformative Schools. Why Relational Practice Requires a Shift from Control to Curiosity.
    Webinar/Video
    2026 PD Wrap Up: The Space Between Knowing and Doing
    2026 PD Wrap Up: The Space Between Knowing and Doing
    Sue Chandler, Founder of Transformative Schools) presents the Relational Practice Bridge, a framework for shifting school culture from control to curiosity. Through three "stories" (the discipline biographies we inherit, the theories of change we adopt, and the patterns our systems reinforce), she explores why relational practice is hard to sustain and how educators can build genuine accountability through understanding rather than consequences. Author/Source: PESA and Sue Chandler, Transformative Schools
    Article In Development
    A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
    A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
    Presented by Michelle McKersey: Deputy Head of Secondary (Students), Moreton Bay College. Shifting from rules to relationships and from conflict to connection.
    Webinar/Video
    2026 PD Wrap Up: A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
    2026 PD Wrap Up: A Whole School Approach to Restorative Practices
    Building on our Term 1 focus on creating a strong community from day one, we welcomed Michelle McKersey, Deputy Head of Secondary at Moreton Bay College to explore a whole‑school approach to restorative practice. In this session, Michelle contrasted restorative, relational approaches to behaviour with traditional punitive models and highlighted Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) as a proactive, preventative strategy within a restorative framework. Author/Source: PESA and Michelle McKersey, Moreton Bay College.
    Article
    Creating a Wellbeing Environment: Positive Leadership Practices
    Creating a Wellbeing Environment: Positive Leadership Practices
    “Authentic leaders are genuine in their intentions and understand the purpose of their leadership is to serve their community not their self-interest.” - Daniel Goleman Author: PESA with contributions from Kerrin Smith.
    Article Key Concept
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    The Wellbeing in Your School Guide:

    Your Essential Resource for Building Whole-School Wellbeing

    The Wellbeing in Your School Guidefrom PESA is Australia’s most comprehensive resource for educators, leaders, and wellbeing practitioners seeking to embed wellbeing/ positive education across their schools. This practical, research-informed guide provides everything you need to develop, implement, and refine a whole-school wellbeing strategy.

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