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TRAINING CALENDAR
A calendar of training courses provided by the Institute of Positive Education for 2016 and 2017.
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TRAINING EVENTS BY LOCATION
Training events, provided by the Institute of Positive Education, sorted by the state in which they are held.
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ABOUT OUR COURSES
About the courses conducted by the Institute of Positive Education.
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LEARNING TO FLOURISH BLOG
16
Jun
2017
How to be mindful without meditating
The word mindfulness can conjure up many mental images.
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31
May
2017
Positive Education requires a context
Positive Education brings together the science of Positive Psychology with best practice teaching and learning.
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18
May
2017
Pos Ed and the 'Wilderness Experience'
The positive effect of nature on the mental state is well known and researched by people like Dr. Roger S. Ulrich.
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20
Apr
2017
Embedding Character Strengths in Schools
Every day we act using our character strengths: saying hello to students walking by (kindness), picking up rubbish in the yard (leadership), thanking a colleague for their help (gratitude); the list g ...
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27
Mar
2017
Building Positive Communities: Design, Implement, Embed
In Japanese, ikigai translates to mean the reason for which you wake up in the morning. If you were asked “What is your ikigai?”, how would you respond? The 3rd annual Positive Education Schools Asso ...
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8
Mar
2017
Harnessing & Celebrating National & International Wellbeing Days
Increasingly, schools realise the importance of wellbeing in education and the benefits, not only for our students, but for the whole school community.
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24
Feb
2017
Unpacking the GGS Model of Positive Education
Let me start this blog post in the same way that I start our short little video above: “It is my pleasure to describe the essence of our Model for Positive Education.” Before I start to unpack each ...
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9
Feb
2017
Giving and Positive Relationships
“Our ability to form, maintain and sustain quality relationships hugely contributes to our lives. They determine our happiness and satisfaction and predict our level of health. Relationships are a gif ...
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6
Dec
2016
Dare to Care this Summer
Imagine that you had set yourself the goal of developing a daily 10-minute mindfulness meditation each morning to feel less stressed, more emotionally balanced and attuned to others. In cementing this ...
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RESEARCH
One of the defining characteristics of Positive Education is that it has positioned itself as an evidence-based approach, which seeks to marry our most current understandings from the scientific liter ...
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RESOURCES
Resources offered by the Institute of Positive Education.
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ABOUT US
The Institute of Positive Education is an initiative by Geelong Grammar School aimed at improving student wellbeing.
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