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4 Oct 2016 Dare to Care: Every year on October 10, the world brings awareness to mental health and wellbeing by celebrating World Mental Health Day.
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13 Sep 2016 Motivation: A Results-Driven Process or a Process-Driven Result?: The alarm clock goes off at 5.30 and somehow, she gets up for a morning run. Audition after audition he faces dreaded rejection but he still goes ba ...
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Staff on Exercise Bikes

2 Sep 2016 How Exercising Affects the Brain: Many of us are seeking ways to better understand our own sense of wellbeing and, in turn, striving to live a rich, full and meaningful life. We are co ...
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Timbertop Marathon runners

18 Aug 2016 Helping our students achieve success: As educators, we want all of our students to be successful in the classroom and beyond.
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5 Aug 2016 Improving hope in our schools: Dropping my five-year-old at school at the school gate, I say, “Hope your spelling goes well.” She tells me it will. It’s her first ever spelling test ...
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19 Jul 2016 Lessons from Letters: It’s not a revolutionary notion that positive relationships in schools support positive outcomes for students. Meta-analysis of research in this area ...
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Broken plates in wall

14 Jun 2016 Positive Education in Difficult Times: While we would all prefer not to experience tragic loss and deep sadness, we all know that it is a necessary part of life and that its experience cont ...
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31 May 2016 Classroom Glue and No Rewards: Over the past decade, there have been significant changes in the attitudes and practices around wellbeing programs in Australian Schools. Two people w ...
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Debbie Clingeleffer-Woodford

27 May 2016 Vale Debbie Clingeleffer-Woodford: It was with great sadness and disbelief that we heard the news that Debbie Clingeleffer-Woodford passed away from a heart attack on Tuesday 10th May. ...
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Character Strength Wheel at GGS Staff Conference

6 May 2016 Character Strengths and Careers Advice: Back in 2007, at the launch of Positive Education at Geelong Grammar School, Professor Martin Seligman posed the question: ‘Can we change internationa ...
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Dr Åse Fagerlund and Mari Laakso at the Toorak campus

14 Apr 2016 The Possibilities of Positive Education in Finland: One of the most unique and inspiring parts of hosting the residential 4-day Discovering Positive Education course at Geelong Grammar School is the div ...
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PESA Conference workshop

22 Mar 2016 Reflections on the 2016 PESA Conference: On the 4th and 5th of March 2016, the Positive Education Schools Association (PESA) held its 2nd annual conference at The Peninsula School in Mt Eliz ...
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