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School leaders face many contemporary challenges.

Supporting school leaders to feel cared for, respected and valued enables them to be well and do well as they face challenge, adversity and opportunity.

Schools are unique workplaces, hosting communities of students, families, and staff. Leadership in contemporary schools is complex, multifaceted and evolving, and the one constant is ongoing high demands in diverse and challenging contexts. Leaders managing these challenges effectively enable schools to flourish in supporting student learning and wellbeing outcomes.

At Compassionate Schools, we support school leaders to feel cared for, respected and valued in their personal journey to do well and be well.

Supported leaders = effective leadership = enhanced student and school outcomes.

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How we can help

Compassionate Schools provides professional learning, coaching and supervision solutions to enable school leaders to better understand themselves and their contexts to foster effective leadership (including personal wellbeing), leading to compassionate schools with sustainable, mental-health promoting cultures, and positive student and staff outcomes.

Supervision, coaching, webinars, and The Evolve Program provide differentiated on-demand and live learning options enabling school leaders  to reflect, build their knowledge and skills and approach their professional and personal lives with confidence and sustained wellbeing.

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Individuals

Are you an educator seeking to support your mental health and wellbeing?
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Leaders

Are you a school leader exploring supportive 1:1 learning opportunities for yourself and others through supervision and coaching?
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Schools

Are you a school looking to build staff capacity in traumatic stress management, compassionate responding, and collective wellbeing?
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Who is Melinda

Melinda is an organisational psychologist and NESA accredited teacher, currently completing her PhD exploring personal and workplace factors shaping school staff wellbeing. Melinda has established her consultancy, Compassionate Schools to enable leaders to feel cared for, respected and valued as they aim to do well and be well at school.

Based on her published research around Australian school staff’s experience of traumatic stress following critical incidents, and her ongoing 1:1 support of principals and school staff, Melinda brings deep knowledge of how schools operate and combines this with an Australian evidence-based approach to supporting school leaders in their reflection, development and approaches to managing through change and adversity.

Melinda’s experience includes working with individuals (principals, school leaders, teachers), groups (leader networks, leadership teams, wellbeing teams) and schools (single and multiple schools),  to support, protect and promote mental health in times of change, challenge and loss in schools.

About Us

“We support school leaders to feel cared for, respected, and valued in their personal journey to do well and be well.”

We’ve had the pleasure of partnering with the following organisations/conferences:

Note: due to privacy names of individual government, Catholic and independent schools not listed

IPPA World Congress

IPPA World Congress

NSW Education

NSW Education

Trauma Aware Education

Trauma Aware Education

Be You

Be You

Positive Education Schools Association

Positive Education Schools Association

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Free Guide

Principals and school leaders: create a workplace where staff thrive.


This free guide, “Reimagining Work in Schools”, explains how schools can get started with designing better work through job and team crafting to enhance staff collaboration, address workload issues, and contribute to building a positive workplace culture.

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