Flourishing at School FlourishDx School

In episode 30, Tamare reconnects with her former colleague from Geelong Grammar School's Institute of Positive Education, Justin Robinson. Justin shares lessons learned training thousands of educators around the world and designing evidence-informed approaches to wellbeing with pioneers like Martin Seligman. He also shares a sneak peek into his new project, The Wellbeing Distillery.

In this episode, Tamara speaks with special guest Dr. Carol Radford, founder of Mentoring in Action and author of Teaching With Light: Ten Lessons for Finding Wisdom, Balance, and Inspiration. They explore the grit of novice teachers, the need for mentors across a teaching career, the reason Carol sees wellbeing, resilience, and mindfulness as must-haves for all teaching programs, and her experience on the mat as a yoga teacher has changed the way she works.

In part 2 of this special episode we bring you an excerpt from the Psych Health and Safety podcast where Jason and Joelle chat with Dr Helen Kelly about burnout in teachers and school principals. Helen shares some of the statistics about burnout and attrition rates in teachers, the commonalities and differences in psychosocial hazard exposure between teachers and principals, and the reasons behind the ever-increasing workload for both groups. She offers suggestions for how schools can better manage psychosocial hazards, and shares examples of novel approaches that different schools have taken to improve the wellbeing of their teachers and principals.

In part 1 of this 2-part episode, we bring you an episode from the Psych Health and Safety podcast where Jason and Joelle chat with Dr Helen Kelly about burnout in teachers and school principals. Helen shares some of the statistics about burnout and attrition rates in teachers, the commonalities and differences in psychosocial hazard exposure between teachers and principals, and the reasons behind the ever-increasing workload for both groups. She offers suggestions for how schools can better manage psychosocial hazards, and shares examples of novel approaches that different schools have taken to improve the wellbeing of their teachers and principals.

In episode 26 Tamara is joined by Empathable's CEO, Micah Wonjoon Kessel. Micah and Tamara talk about the new definition of empathy, the reason it is a future skill for all learners, and the "2 in a room" theory that allows radical change without having to change the radicals.

In episode 25 Tamara and special guest Angie Shearer talk about coaching, character strengths, and the power of leading with relationships. They also consider why so many PE teachers excel at connecting with students and how peer coaching can improve the wellbeing of both the coach and the coachee.