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May 29, 20241 min read
School Refusal - Anxiety, School Avoidance, and Parenting: Four Strategies to Bring Peace
It's a story that many parents and teachers know all too well. As the time to get ready for school approaches, a child becomes...


Feb 4, 20248 min read
Measuring Wellbeing
By Phil Slade The challenge of complexity, context, correlations, and data collection - and a proposed solution (Switch4Schools)


Nov 10, 20232 min read
Switching Anger to Wisdom: The Classroom Mindfulness Revolution
By Phil Slade and Roshelle Weir Anger is a powerful emotion that can have a significant impact on the classroom environment. Uncontrolled...


Sep 21, 20233 min read
Biohacking your emotions
By Roshelle Weir and Phil Slade It is a popular misconception that mindfulness or breathing techniques to regulate emotions are somehow...


Aug 30, 20236 min read
Feelings, emotions, and experiences.
By Phil Slade All roses are flowers, but not all flowers are roses. The same goes for feelings and emotions. All emotions are feelings,...


Aug 30, 20236 min read
Connecting Every Learner Every Day in Every Way for Success
By Susie Randel Kneipp, Principal at Kedron State School, published in The Queensland Principal magazine's September edition. In 2015...


Jun 19, 20237 min read
Engaging with the un-engageable
It’s a situation we all know well. The people who need to hear the message are often the ones unlikely to be open to receiving the...


Feb 13, 20232 min read
Put your own mask on first
The start of a new school year can be an exciting and challenging time for teachers. As students return to the classroom, teachers are...


Nov 25, 20222 min read
Emotional Intelligence – how does the research conceptualise it?
Most of us all know by now that emotional intelligence (EI) is the key to driving performance, improving relationships, and becoming more...


Sep 14, 20224 min read
Turning the dial on Emotional Intelligence
For those familiar with the world of comics, there is a superhero in the X-Men world called Cyclops who has laser eyes that obliterate...


Jul 21, 20223 min read
The true power of gratefulness
By Phil Slade Having a daily practice of recognising the good things that are around us and being grateful for them builds mental...


Jun 16, 20222 min read
Importance of human connection
By Roshelle Weir and Phil Slade We were honoured to be a part of the Queensland Association of State Schools (QASSP) 2022 conference last...


May 13, 20223 min read
Control vs. Chaos, who wins in the end?
By Phil Slade Control agents Maxwell Smart and 99 lead the battle against Chaos in the 60’s TV show Get Smart, which is one of my all...


May 6, 20222 min read
Does being thankful make you smarter and more successful?
By Phil Slade In short, yes, significantly. In five major ways, research shows the positive benefits to us cognitively, and to our...


Apr 21, 20222 min read
Is Habit Stacking the Most Powerful of All Life Hacks?
By Phil Slade In 2007, researchers at Oxford University discovered that babies have 41% more neurons than the average adult1. 41%! With...


Mar 26, 20223 min read
Is feeling tired or bored an emotion?
By Phil Slade “Our emotional responses shape our experience of the world. Emotions can feel profoundly enriching and painfully...


Mar 17, 20223 min read
6 Ways to be More Resilient
By Roshelle Weir Being resilient is the ability to quickly get back up when life knocks you down – to be better and stronger than you...


Mar 4, 20222 min read
Cage the Rage
When is it okay to be angry? by Phil Slade There is an old Japanese proverb which describes anger as a sharp clawed tiger, raging and...


Jan 11, 20222 min read
What switches do clinical psychologists use?
Video Transcript Phil: When i think of calm people Katie you're one of the calmest people that i know and yet i know that there are times...
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