All topics offered as live webinars, and also available as on-site school leader workshops.
Australian school staff provide care to students, families and colleagues in a range of challenging circumstances. Critical incidents, complex student needs and ongoing community vulnerabilities combine to present school leaders with challenges in protecting and promoting staff mental health.
This masterclass supports school leaders to understand how such work may impact on staff through burnout, compassion/empathy fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. Leadership strategies that can assist in supporting, protecting and promoting staff mental health within the school workplace will also be discussed.
School leaders will learn about:
Dates: 21 and 22 October 2025, visit our Eventbrite page to register.
Timing: 90 minute webinar
Cost: $49.50
Australian schools are complex, high-pressure workplaces. School leaders are responsible for identifying and managing related psychosocial hazards – an important challenge in protecting and promoting staff mental health.
This masterclass supports school leaders to understand and identify psychosocial hazards at school. This vital first step can assist in meeting legal obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act, and understanding how to provide a mentally healthy school workplace.
School leaders will learn about:
Australian school leaders support staff, students, families in often challenging contexts. Critical incidents, complex student needs and ongoing community vulnerabilities combine to present school leaders with a working environment that is constant and at times overwhelming.
This masterclass supports school leaders to understand how such work may impact on their own wellbeing and mental health. Strategies that can assist in supporting, protecting and promoting school leader mental health in and outside the workplace will also be discussed.
School leaders will learn about:
School leaders play a critical role in shaping the way work is organised – and effective work design is one of the most powerful ways to create a safe, healthy workplace. This session introduces school the core principles of good work design, and explore the links between poor work design and common psychosocial hazards in schools, such as excessive workload, unclear roles, and low job control.
This masterclass supports school leaders to learn how they can take charge and make tangible changes to the design of systems, environments and roles in their school to protect and promote staff mental health.
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Perfect for primary school leaders, this 3-part process supports you to get started with considerations around your school as a mentally healthy workplace.
Designed for individual school leaders, it includes:
Cost: $350 + GST
Timing: Audit sessions scheduled twice per term, check our Eventbrite page for upcoming dates
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.
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.
It includes:
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:
Professional and ethical support for leaders to reflect on the complexities of the school leadership role. Drawing on the occupational wellbeing evidence base, these sessions support reflection and reflexivity and offer a safe harbour for leaders to wonder and discern next steps at work and for personal wellbeing.
Timing: Book in your sessions to suit your calendar
Bookings: Email now to find out more and get started:
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:
… 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!
