Be You in association with the Northern Territory Principals Association presents an online session with Kristen Douglas, Head of headspace Schools & Communities.

Balancing Wellbeing and Leadership

26 March 2025 from 3:15 PM (Australia/Darwin)

Please register here: https://shorturl.at/0EtyI

We invite current and aspiring leaders to join the conversation and learn how you can regain a sense of control while actively taking care of your own personal wellbeing, enabling you to continue contributing to the best of your abilities.

Kristen is a regular contributor and thought leader in the critical areas of whole school approach, youth mental health, and principal/leader mental health and wellbeing. Kristen continues to lead a large multi-disciplinary national team of mental health and education professionals to support primary and secondary schools across Australia from promotion, prevention, early intervention, intervention, to postvention. She is a highly respected and sought after presenter nationally and internationally on the topics of educational leadership, health and wellbeing, suicide, mental health, critical incident response and recovery, and other related topics.

Balancing Wellbeing and Leadership

Register here: https://shorturl.at/0EtyI

NTPA are excited to announce that this May, Megan Hunter, Co-Founder/CEO of the High Conflict Institute, will be presenting her NTPA tailored workshop in both Darwin and Alice Springs!

High-Conflict Kit Bag: Stay Sane, Defuse Aggression, Strengthen Relationships and Know You've Done Your Best

Darwin

Friday 16 May 8:30am to 4pm

Darwin Tennis Centre

Members $250 Non-members $350

Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/Fkp4T7AAw2

        Alice Springs

       Monday 19 May 8:30am to 4pm

       Centralian Senior College

       Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/tvCzXt1skC

       Members $250 Non-members $350

Training Overview

Do you dread high-conflict interactions? Aggression, threats of violence, and simply trying to meet high demands? It’s time to wake up ready to face each day with a kit bag of high-conflict communication skills and confidence that you’re creating a threat-reduced ecosphere in your school. No more dread. No more chaos. No more exhaustion.

For those new to high-conflict training, we will go over the Conflict Brain and the key communication skills to de-escalate, set limits and impose consequences, respond to hostile emails, and use proposals to reach agreements. If you’ve attended this training in the past, you will likely learn something new as we often hear things in different ways once we’ve had some experience with them.

Next we will work on the most challenging issues by problem-solving common high-conflict scenarios:

• Handling aggression and/or violence in the moment
• What to do with bullies in the moment and long-term (based on Our New World of Adult Bullies)
• Strengthening relationships between the school and families - getting them to work with you as a team for their child instead of them against you
• Help parents help their kids become a part of the big picture
• Building a structured process for parents to raise concerns with the school in a constructive way - get in front of social media campaigns
• Dealing with high-conflict fatigue from protracted conflict
• Responding to hostile emails, letters and social media posts
• Practice setting limits and imposing consequences
• Discover work-arounds to gaps in code of conduct/policy
• Join in our deep dive: “It’s All About Me” (taking care of yourself when high-conflict winds you up or down)

Whether you are new or have been around awhile, this training has something for everyone. This training include the most advanced conflict management skills. They can make a difference in your life, your career, your health, your happiness, and your well-being. Most importantly, you will impact your school (internal) and each and every family who passes through your doors (external) in new ways

This is what members were saying about the previous workshops Megan presented for NTPA:

‘This was the best workshop I have ever participated in. It provided me with deep understandings and powerful strategies to navigate challenging conversations that are often part of a school leaders role.’

Belinda Pearson

‘Highly targeted for the current needs of principals in the Territory to lean in on evidence-based practices when dealing with regular high conflict situations.’

Liza Parr, Nakara Primary School