RESOURCES

Lael Stone has been integral to the success of High Trees Primary. She has generously shared her wealth of knowledge, guidance and support with our Founder, Marj and continues to help us create an education system that values emotional awareness.

She speaks for the heart of the child by supporting parents to understand their children and helps adults process their own childhood trauma through connection and compassion.

Sir Ken Robinson was a global authority on creativity, education, and human potential. Celebrated for his transformative TED Talk, "Do Schools Kill Creativity", he collaborated with world leaders, educators, and organisations to champion the role of creativity in learning and life. An acclaimed author, his insights have shaped educational policies and practices worldwide. His legacy continues, with his final manifesto, "Imagine if… Creating A Future For Us All", written with and completed posthumously by his daughter Kate.

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behaviour, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.

Kohn’s criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.”

A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.

Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.

Nathan Wallis is a father of three & foster parent with a professional background in child counselling, teaching and social service management.

He lectured in Human Development at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and was also a board member and senior trainer with the national body responsible for the dissemination of neuroscientific research to professionals.

He has developed a reputation as a lively and engaging speaker who uses humour and plain language to make this complex topic come to life.

Nathan is a regular on Radio and Television shows in New Zealand, sharing his expertise on child development. In 2010 he founded a private training consultancy, X Factor Education Limited, with the goal of facilitating easy to understand professional development training reflecting the latest neuroscience discoveries and their practical implications for everyday practice. Since then he has been in hot demand, delivering well over 200 presentations year in New Zealand Australia and internationally.

Raised Good began as a way for Tracy Gillet, a nature-loving, adventure-seeking Aussie Mum, to answer her own questions, and share her own experiences. Today, she is joined by millions of readers and parents worldwide who wish to reclaim the wonder of motherhood and the joy of childhood, one parenting decision at a time. Together we’re forging our own paths, leaning on one another through the grit, and strengthening our intuition and sense of resolve.

The Reggio Emilia Approach® is an educational philosophy based on the image of a child with strong potentialities for development and a subject with rights, who learns through the hundred languages belonging to all human beings, and grows in relations with others.

The Danish Way promotes respect for the child, and all of their capabilities. What the happiest people in the world know about raising confident, capable kids.

We are invested in protecting our children and as such implement various programs to ensure this.

MATE, a project of Griffith University, Queensland, is an education and intervention program teaching us all to be leaders in the prevention of violence and problematic behaviour.

The bystander approach focuses not on the perpetrator or victim of violence rather, what we can all do to prevent violence in our homes, workplaces, schools and communities.

Rite of Passage – a new program to facilitate and acknowledge the significant milestones on your students’ journeys through their transition to high school, adolescence and into the adult world.

This innovative program helps students transition through awkward and lonely adolescent stages, by Strengthening their sense of self, developing critical life skills, unlocking their potential, and helping them to create a healthy vision of their future.

Emma is an Aware Parenting coach and mentor and we engage her services to support our teachers and parents as needed. Her life’s work is to provide parenting solutions which support the creation of harmonious happy families

Expanding Minds is about sharing knowledge with others, to help parents achieve balance in their families.