Upcoming Events
The Anxiety Project
2027 Corhort
Online Information Session
4th August 2026: 2pm-2.45pm
Join us for a free online information session to explore whether The Anxiety Project is right for your school. We'll walk you through the research that drives the program, what involvement actually looks like day-to-day, and the outcomes schools in our growing cohort are already experiencing. No commitment required — just an hour that could change how your school responds to anxiety.
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MORE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
The RIOT, Whole-School program takes a wrap around approach to help teenagers learn skills to manage anxiety and build resilience by engaging the significant adults in their lives in training.
The program uses a theory of change to support schools over a 12 month period to:
Provide school leaders, teachers and school staff with the skills and knowledge to respond to individual anxiety issues
Improve teen and staff mental health and wellbeing resulting in improved attendance and academic results
Engage parents and carers in the task of managing their teen's anxious behaviours
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Tough Conversations for Primary & Secondary School Leaders
This course addresses the well-recognised occurrence of difficulties that school leaders face through often having to discuss sensitive, difficult subjects. Significant levels of stress for school leaders can be reduced when those conversations are handled with the skills taught in this professional development course.
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Engaging Adolescents in High Schools
How do teachers, student advisors, and heads of departments build trust, foster safe independence and maintain open communication with young people in a busy school environment?
Michael Hawton, author of Engaging Adolescents™ which has sold over 10,000 copies worldwide since May 2017, shares his formula for building communication skills and clear boundaries.
This workshop provides the practical elements and skills for having tricky-to-hold, but necessary, conversations with young people. Student advisors and teachers will walk away with a renewed sense of confidence about the role they can play in teenagers’ lives, without conversations morphing into arguments or the student withdrawing.
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Founded by Michael Hawton (MAPS), former teacher and one of Australia's leading child behaviour experts, Parentshop distils the best available research-based practical solutions, into digestible short courses that are easily transferrable to the classroom, workplace or home and are able to be implemented tomorrow.
Our purpose is to help the community navigate how to raise the new generation, via evidence-based courses for education and community professionals and parents.
We believe that modest changes repeated over time can make a big difference to the wellbeing and resilience of children.
STUDENT ANXIETY SUMMIT FEBRUARY 2026
Keynote speaker: Professor Patrick McGorry, AO
This day was an excellent opportunity for school leaders, deputies and wellbeing staff to engage with politicians, colleagues, decision makers and allied health professionals to discuss effective models of care to turn the tide on the growing number of Australian children and young people experiencing anxiety problems.
What we know is that untreated anxiety problems are a ‘gateway’ to later more serious psychological problems in the teen years. Its roots are in childhood, but the headwinds and the megatrends are operating in this very vulnerable period between puberty and young adulthood.
The event was presented by Parentshop, Australia's leading childhood anxiety, child, teen and adult behaviour-change specialist.
