School consulting and coaching

School consulting and coaching

School webinars and workshops

School webinars and workshops

The Evolve Program

The Evolve Program

School consulting and coaching

Mentally Healthy Workplace Flash Audit

Perfect for primary schools*, this 3-part process supports you to get started with considerations around your school as a mentally healthy workplace.

It includes:

  • One hour x 1:1 (principal or leadership team) online briefing session
  • Audit toolkit completion by principal/LT and return
  • One hour x 1:1 (principal or leadership team) online reporting session covering strengths, challenges and Getting Started next steps, plus accompanying report.

Cost: $950 plus GST
Timing: Book in your sessions to suit your calendar
Bookings: Email now to book in and get started:

*Combined and high school audits are structured in stages across the workplace, over three-five consecutive flash audits.

School Wellbeing Process/es: Flash Process Re-Design

Is there a wellbeing system or process in your school that looks good but is just not working? This two-hour design workshop supports you to redesign your process/es with 1:1 support.

It includes:

  • One hour x 1:1 (principal and/or leadership team) online briefing session
  • School process checklist completion by principal/LT and return
  • 2 hour x 1:1 (principal and/or leadership team) online design session reviewing and producing viable options for process improvement/transformation.

Cost: $1100 plus GST
Timing: Book in your sessions to suit your calendar
Bookings: Email now to book in and get started:

Mentally Healthy Workplace – Principal/Leader Coaching

Feeling unsure of where to get started in supporting your school to strengthen its footprint as a mentally healthy workplace? Book in for 1:1 support with Melinda to discuss your/your school’s current experiences, and plan next steps together.

Timing: Book in your sessions to suit your calendar
Bookings: Email now to find out more and get started:

School webinars and workshops

Building Our Mentally Healthy Workplace Together

Building Our Mentally Healthy Workplace Together includes The AWARE Teacher workshop (below), plus an additional module focused on taking responsibility for collective wellbeing as a school community.

Timing: 2 hours – 5 hours (workshop can be tailored to available time, and also delivered over multiple sessions)
Bookings: Email with your preferred date and time or for more information:

The AWARE Teacher – Well Ways of Working in the Classroom

School life has changed, and teachers and leaders need new skills to cope well and flourish. The AWARE Teacher workshop/webinar shares Australian evidence-based, real-time strategies teachers and leaders can use in their workspaces to maintain and grow their wellbeing despite ongoing challenges, and build a sustainable hope-filled, compassionate approach to their working life. 

During The AWARE Teacher workshop, staff learn well ways of working, including:

  • How to tune in to thoughts, feelings and body messages
  • How to apply the neurobiology of stress and coping in the classroom
  • The importance of ‘compassion satisfaction’ and knowing what is enough
  • Key real-time restoration strategies
  • How to engage well with other regulated adults to support wellbeing.
Timing: 90 minutes – 5 hours (workshop can be tailored to available time, and also delivered over multiple sessions eg twilights)
Bookings: Email with your preferred date and time or for more information:

The Compassionate Teacher – Staying Well as We Care for Others

Current research shows compassion/empathy fatigue is a real issue in Australian schools, contributing to poor staff mental health and wellbeing.

The Compassionate Teacher workshop/webinar explores well ways of responding to the distress of others (students, families, colleagues). Building on Prof. Jane Dutton and Monical Worline’s model of workplace compassion (Notice – Interpret – Feel – Take Action), school staff will leave with a renewed understanding of how to care for self and others in responding to student and staff needs, and learn actionable strategies to use immediately in their school context.

Participants learn:

  • How workplace strain presents in schools (burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion/empathy fatigue)
  • Key differences between empathy and compassion for school staff
  • How to respond sustainably to student and colleague needs to maintain wellbeing as a caregiver in the school context.
Timing: 90 minutes – 5 hours (workshop can be tailored to available time, and also delivered over multiple sessions eg twilights)
Bookings: Email with your preferred date and time or for more information:

The Evolve Program

The Evolve Program

The Evolve Program launches in Term 1, 2026.

A unique online opportunity for school leaders (individuals or teams) to learn and design 
safe and well school workplaces together.

Featuring:

  • the CARE framework
  • action planning cycle
  • comprehensive toolkit
  • live online workshops
  • ongoing support

Evolve will support you to start where you are and build a safe and well school to protect and promote the mental health of your staff.

For more information about joining The Evolve Program in Term 1 2026, email with your details and we’ll be in touch: