EmpowerING EDUCATORS TO REVOLUTIONISE WELLBEING
As young people struggle increasingly with their wellbeing and behaviour, schools are left shouldering an growing burden of wellbeing content. Traditional content delivery methods not only overwhelm teachers but can actively disengage the very students who need support the most. There's a pressing need for a different approach.
My ‘Better Conversations with Young People’ program provides educators with a clear, practical framework that transforms everyday interactions into opportunities for meaningful growth. By shifting from content delivery to facilitated conversations, teachers can easily create powerful moments of learning that are highly engaging for students.
The end result is a thriving, connected culture of peer support and accountability where students actively engage in their own and each other's wellbeing journey. This approach empowers young people to take charge of their growth and build the social and emotional skills required to thrive in a modern world.
Dr Nicholas Clements
University of Tasmania. Historian, author, teacher and retreat leader
“Mike’s training was more valuable than all other professional learning I have done, combined… And a profound personal journey to boot.”
SCHOOL SERVICES
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1. Keynote Presentations
My staff presentations are an opportunity to give your entire team a common vocabulary and some practical skills to put this approach to work immediately in classroom and extracurricular activities.
I also deliver parent talks to inform families of the “Better Conversations” approach and give simple tools to support SEL at home.
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2. BETTER CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
My flagship program is a comprehensive, experiential and immersive training that equips staff engaged in pastoral care, wellbeing, leadership programs with the key skills and a framework for designing highly engaging, student led SEL spaces.
I can deliver the training to groups of your staff in a format that suits your professional development calendar, or you can send a few of your wellbeing and pastoral leaders to my three day immersive training.
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3. Embedding Better Conversations
After a group of your staff have completed the “Better Conversations with Young People” program, I support your team to embed the approach into your culture through group coaching, 1:1 mentoring and in-program coaching.
The end goal is that a group of wellbeing and pastoral leaders at your school feel confident to support your entire teaching team to facilitate highly engaging conversations and experiences that empower young people to thrive… together.
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4. Program Design
I work collaboratively with schools implementing new programs or reinvigorating existing wellbeing, pastoral care and leadership programs.
I can design programs for your school from scratch if you need that level of support. Alternatively, I can collaboratively co-create new programs alongside your team of passionate educators… empowering your team with a new approach to reinventing engaging SEL experiences in the process.
I also have programs specific to boys schools based on my significant work with men and boys wellbeing through my social enterprise Good Blokes Co.
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Tenielle Bright, Director of Wellbeing and Culture. Studio School
“This workshop takes a complex issue and makes it feel possible, accessible, even easy.”
Hale School Teacher, 2022
“One of the best PDs I’ve ever done”
Scott Hewson, Head of year 9, Mundaring Catholic College.
“One of the most outstanding presenters I’ve workshopped with. A massive collection of strategies and insights.”
Hale School Teacher, 2022
“All teachers should be made to do this training.”
Better conversations with Boys Participant - AISWA, March 2023
“This should be implemented in all schools”
Launceston Grammar School Teacher. 2024.
“I was ready to give up teaching. I didn't know how to move forward or make change for me as a teacher and for my students. Mike Dyson’s Facilitation training has given me hope and a heap of awesome tools and skills to play with.”
Work With Me
If you’d like my help in transforming social and emotional wellbeing in your organisation, please get in touch.
