Reinventing the Compassionate Commonroom

A FORUM FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS, PRINCIPALS AND THOSE PROFESSIONALS MANAGING HR IN SCHOOLS

REINVENTING THE COMPASSIONATE COMMONROOM WITH

FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2016 HOTEL WINDSOR SPRING STREET, MELBOURNE

MINDFULNESS, WELLNESS AND THE EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY SCHOOL

Those who work in schools now share more taxing accountabilities, more stressors and greater change demands as the digital natives populate the classroom. All staff are more susceptible to stress. That stress must not become distress. The stressors will not go away. They cannot be neutralised or quarantined. So, the ‘with-it’ school will develop coping mechanisms that are fundamental to the organization’s emotional intelligence and culture.

Then, like good sailors, all will be ready to engage these new tempests whenever and wherever they arise.

FRIDAY JUNE 24, 2016 8.30 AM COFFEE & REGISTRATION 8.40 AM WELCOME 8.45 AM : THE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION STRESS, EMOTIONAL HEALTH, CULTURE, TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL Each of us has defence mechanisms and views about people and professional situations that keep us stuck in our current way of ‘doing things’, reluctant to change. When we let go of these fears and anxieties, our view of the world changes.

Then, we can change the course of how we think and feel. Our emotional health, and the positive influence we each bring to bear on the school’s culture, can blossom. Transformation and renewal are integral to any organization confronting change. Once a school identifies a need to change its vision, values or its strategic direction, it is critical that its culture expands to engage that new direction and that its emotional health is sufficiently robust to enable the challenges to become a source of personal and professional growth for the individual and the team.

The presentation will explore the many facets that create a great team culture, how we can measure the emotional health of individuals and schools and use the Human Resources Manager as a catalyst in building a supportive, problem-sharing, positive workplace as a result.

PRESENTER: Gayle Hardie, Global Leadership Foundation

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10.15 AM PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH, WELLNESS AND MINDFULNESS, STRESSORS, PSYCHOLOGICAL INJURY, DETECTION & PREVENTION STRATEGIES The school workplace is emotionally charged, highly accountable, and ‘public’ especially since the advent of “facebook” and its many clones. It is confronting change, with the arrival of the ‘digital native’ generation, on as large a scale as arose with the inception of the computer. The academic and the professional staff work with parents and even some colleagues who often do not understand the extent of the professional expectations each carries. So, stress and distress, isolation, harassment, bullying, hours of work, interruptions, unreal expectations and time-lines, professional arrogance and establishing the team’s professional presence, timelines and the ill-defined nature of its contribution all can contribute to dysfunction. How can all these issues be knitted into a productive, professionally happy landscape? What are the tell-tale signs of distress and the tried and true prevention strategies? Developing wellness and mindfulness.

PRESENTER: Claire Ebstein, Bodycare Workplace Solutions

11.15 AM DEVELOPING AND INCORPORATING THE HR MANAGER’S ROLE INTO SCHOOL CULTURE AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF MANAGEMENT FOR POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE PURPOSE School leaders, including Principals, having come through the learning and teaching ranks, do not usually understand or appreciate what HRM is all about and what HR staff can provide the school in terms of professional and decision support, adding organizational value from recruitment to exit interviewing, increasing job satisfaction and establishing a grievance watch, facilitating career orientation and development, review, advancement and compliance as well as workplace definition and compliance from the technical to the administrative.

The role should be integral, not an “add-on”.

Winning the understanding and the full support of management, then the common room, is the first task to be mastered.

A PRACTITIONERS’ PANEL

12.30 PM LUNCH

2.30 PM AFTERNOON COFFEE 2.45 PM EMPATHETIC MANAGEMENT AND MINDFULNESS: THE WELLNESS-MINDFULNESS CONTINUUM, PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND THE CORRELATION WITH SUCCESS, PRODUCTIVITY AND HAPPINESS Work, the need to succeed, even stress itself can become addictive with deleterious effect. The pressure to succeed, especially midst younger members of staff, can create any number of potentially harmful effects. All staff should understand too the potential for self-imposed harm contrasting with the power and productivity of true wellness, mindfulness and psychological health. Empathetic management works on establishing a true work-life balance that is mutually advantageous to the school and the member of staff.

PRESENTER: Vanessa Alford, Author, physiotherapist and marathon runner.

4.00 PM DRINKS SPONSORED BY: Bridge Consulting

1.15 PM ABSENTEEISM AND PRESENTEEISM, DEVELOPING A SUPPORTIVE, COACHING CULTURE, CREATING REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS AND THE POWER OF THE POSITIVE Stress can be positive until that trigger point is reached when it becomes distress. There are so many reasons why this may happen. Coaching can assist the colleague to pull back from the dangers of distress, and the twin cancers of absenteeism or presenteeism. Does your school have a formal coaching, mentoring structure? Are the professional expectations realistic? So many experienced practitioners can cite the words of advice, the ‘tips’, some supportive, usually more experienced colleague once gave them, using the ‘problem’ as an opportunity to establish a lasting professional relationship. Medicos and lawyers have structures in place for exactly this reason. How might schools use these models to create a positive, problemsolving culture and to come to understand the power of the positive?

PRESENTER: Andrea McCall, Andrea McCall and Associates

FEES AND REGISTRATION The fee will include the cost of a buffet lunch and morning and afternoon tea:

“Early Bird” Fee (not including GST)

$ 590

Full Fee (not including GST)

$720

The ‘Early Bird’ concession will apply to all enrolments received by 4pm, May 12, 2016.

It will also apply to all second and subsequent enrolments received from the one school at any time before enrolments close. The final date for registration will be Friday, June 17, 2016.

A cancellation policy applies. Cancellations before May 12, 2016 will receive a full refund less 20%: cancellations before May 26, 2016 will receive a 50 % refund but any cancellation after May 26, 2016 will not warrant a refund. A substitute is always welcome if a delegate finds that unforeseen circumstances have arisen which prevent attendance.

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THE PRESENTERS Gayle Hardie Gayle Hardie is passionate about making a positive difference to people’s lives, their businesses and workplaces.

She presents widely on emotional health, transformational leadership, change in individuals and organisations, leadership resilience, and strategic planning & development. She is a co-founder of the Global Leadership Foundation who draw clients representing all areas of business. Her initial training and experience was in education. Gayle is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, is a Fellow and Former Board Member of Leadership Victoria, and is a recipient of the Business and Professional Women’s Community Leadership Award. She understands people, their development paths and responses to environments and situations and as such, is brilliantly positioned to be our Keynote speaker.

Andrea McCall Andrea McCall’s background is in Human Resources Management. She also holds qualifications in History and Politics.

Her extensive career has included running her own business, lecturing at a number of Victorian Universities and as a State Member of Parliament, representing Frankston. She is a sought after speaker at conferences and runs seminars on a variety of topics. She is tutor at U3A, Frankston. Andrea is also a member of the ACFE Board (Adult Community and Further Education) and Chair of its Youth Taskforce.

Claire Ebstein Claire has a strong Workplace Risk skill set in Occupational Health and Safety Management and Workers ‘Compensation with formal qualifications in Physiotherapy and Safety. She has achieved significant financial and operational outcomes in several industries. Her direct contact with and intimate knowledge of the challenges of school workplaces began with her work as a Senior Consultant with a large Insurance Broker and continues now with Bodycare. Claire has also practised physiotherapy and has worked as a senior Occupational Rehabilitation Consultant.

Vanessa Alford Vanessa Alford is a physiotherapist, nutritionist, clinical pilates instructor and former elite marathon runner. Vanessa is the author of Fit Not Healthy, her personal story of exercise addiction. For years Vanessa pushed her body to the limit, punishing it with endless gruelling workouts, driven to succeed, while working and studying full time. She was so blinded by her obsession and in denial of the harm she was inflicting on her body that she failed to see how detrimental her lifestyle was to her health. She eventually paid the price, struck by a debilitating illness that no medical test could explain.

Her journey has taught her the importance of achieving balance in all aspects of life.

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Full Conference Fee ($720 plus $72 GST) $792

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The Conference will be held in Melbourne at the Hotel Windsor, Spring Street, Melbourne.