Your Life - Your Responsibility (Yrs 7-12)

Years 7-9: Focus: Building resilience, dealing with bullying, accepting change

Years 10-12: Focus: Facing challenges, building personal responsibility, making a difference, staying motivated.

Using the real life story of a senseless act of violence, this session encourages students to focus on personal responsibility, overcoming adversity, facing fear, maintaining self control and building inner strength, resilience an developing leader-ship skills. Presenters share how a major traumatic experience changed the life of one man, turning personal tragedy into hope for others. Challenges young people to truly understand the meaning of living their lives to the full. Our keynote workshop/seminar, can be tailored for small groups or as a large presentation.

Time: 50 min

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Anger /Stress Management (Yrs 7-12)

This workshop deals with signs and feelings of anger as well as thought processes. Students learn strategies for defusing conflict, managing anger, stress release, and maintaining self control.

Time: 50 min

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Goal Setting and Achieving (Yrs 7-12)

Learn goal setting strategies that really work!Discover how to use the power of vision, develop a strategy, utilise measuring tools and maintenance techniques to create the goals you want. Students will leave with a specific goal in mind and the plan to achieve it.

Time: 50 min

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Restorative Justice Conferencing (Yrs 7-12)

Full day workshop for schools keen to adopt a conferencing approach to bullying and anti social behaviour. A group of students and teachers are trained in conference facilitation for use as a school-wide conflict resolution strategy.

Time: 50 min

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Road Awareness (Yrs 10-12)

Students learn about risk factors and consequences involved when driving or being a passenger. Using real life examples, this presentation deals with driver responsibility, attitude, drink driving and appropriate risk when using the road. True life accounts told by victims and offenders give students first hand information delivered with emotion and impact.

Time: 50 min

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Safe Celebrating - Risk Management (Yrs 9-12)

Utilising Protective Behaviour Strategies, real stories and experiences, students develop awareness and skills to keep safe in a range of real situations. Strong focus on choices and options using a range of age-appropriate scenarios and visual aids. Includes issues such as drink spiking, drug and alcohol choices, party gate crashing etc.

Time: 50 min

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Legal Studies - Alternatives (Yrs 11-12)

In this session students discuss alternatives to the current legal/justice system such as conferencing, victim/offender issues and diversionary programs, sentences and legal attitudes. The session draws on our experience working across the spectrum with victims, offenders and legal professionals.

Presenters are members of several respected NSW Boards and Councils related to victims support, legal reform and justice policy.

It's Not Cool to be Cruel Anti Bullying Program (Primary Schools, Western Sydney)

Bullying is a major issue. Our Anti-bullying presentation with supporting materials addresses bullying issues in Primary Schools including cyber bullying.

Written by Yr 11 student Nathan Cassar and partnered by Wests Tigers, all attendees will receive a Wests Tigers bag with posters and materials to reinforce the message - Say No to Bullying! Subject to availability Wests Tigers players may attend this School Program.

Time - Approx 1 hour

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You Can Make a Difference! (Yrs 5 & 6)

A junior version of Your Life - Your Responsibility. Using a real life situation and utilising protective behaviour strategies and cognitive behaviour tools, we focus on understanding what personal responsibility is and ways of overcoming adversity, family fear, building resilience and developing leadership skills.

Colourful visuals enhance this presentation.

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It's My Choice (Kindergarten to Year 4)

It's My Choice Programme has been developed around the principles of ESI- Executive State Identification- which recognises the different parts of our personalities that make us who we are and how we function on a day to day basis. It's My Choice Programme is a short, sharp intervention strategy that visually touches the children's emotions, making a positive and indelible change in them.

For more information please download a brochure (pdf 1 MB)

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I Have the Power! (Primary Schools)

Students explore the consequences of bullying and other violent and anti social behaviour and learn positive strategies to deal with these issues, utilising simple storytelling, activities, worksheets and videos. The material is syllabus based and caters to low literacy levels. Kids love exploring the world of Shaley, an abandoned and abused x staffy rescued from the dog's home, whose family has to teach her manners and positive behaviour, without raising their voices or using any violence.

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