2024 WORKSHOP OPTIONS
FOR YEARS 9 - 12 STUDENTS
This 1/2 day workshop’s core focus is Years 9 - 12 students.
Defining compassion & its importance to human beings
Physical/mental health benefits of compassion
Compassion in Action
Appreciative Listening
Turning reactions into responses
Personal kindness pledge
This workshop works well with school service and reflection days and is perfect with 1/2 year groups on rotation am/pm. In the alternate rotation schools may schedule a community service project and The Kindness Challenge partners are available to run parallel short sessions on:
disability inclusion
mindfulness and self-compassion
respectful relationships
developing our core values
FOR YEARS 5 - 10 STUDENTS
This one day workshop’s core focus is Years 5 -10 students but can be customised for all ages.
Defining compassion & its importance to human beings
Physical/mental health benefits of compassion
Kindness in Action
Appreciative Listening
What is a good person?
Gratitude/forgiveness
Turning reactions into responses
Planting a compassion forest
Personal kindness challenge
Perfect for camps, retreats and reflection days.
Provides a core foundation for scaffolding compassion culture across the high school journey.
HALF-DAY HEART OF COMPASSION WORKSHOP
FULL-DAY FOUNDATION
KINDNESS CHALLENGE
FOR TEACHERS, FAMILIES &
THE COMMUNITY
Compassion Labs - a 1- 1 1/2 hour sessions for staff and parents on introduction to compassion, neuroscience of compassion or self-compassion. Parent sessions available as evening zoom sessions in conjunction with year group Kindness Challenges.
Parent Kindness Challenge - trialled in 2022, this is a 3-4 week online gathering to discuss in-depth compassion principles - awareness/mindfulness, neuroscience, triggers and forgiveness and self-compassion
Catherine is also available as a compassion keynote speaker for school, business and community events.
FOR YEAR 12 STUDENT LEADERS
Some of the most successful Kindness Challenges have been working with student leaders to build their understandings about compassionate leadership, fostering a compassion culture in their leavers’ cohort and creating a legacy project of compassion within their school and/or local community.
The Captains’ Kindness Challenge comprises:
A 1 - 1 1/2 hour workshop with Year 12 Captains at the end of Year 11 or beginning of Year 12. Topics covered include:
compassionate leadership
leadership values and personal passions
leadership in action
developing a legacy project for the Class of 2024
Ongoing support/advice to develop a legacy compassion project including meeting/assembly attendance and links to local community organisations to address identified issues. t
CAPTAINS’
KINDNESS CHALLENGE
ADULT KINDNESS CHALLENGES
DR MARK WILLIAMS IS RETURNING TO PERTH IN 2024!
The Kindness Challenge will be working with world-renowned neuroscientist Dr Mark Williams again in 2024, for a week of conversations on the neuroscience of human connection, compassion and mental health.
If you are interested in hosting sessions for students, staff or parents, please register your interest as soon as possible as sessions will be limited.
FOR YEARS THAT HAVE COMPLETED AN INTRO KINDNESS CHALLENGE WORKSHOP
We can create a custom Kindness Challenge for your school to address your needs, mission and goals in any year group. Topics may include:
Topics could include:
self-compassion
fierce compassion (social justice)
discovering our ‘why’
compassion in action (community service)
building a kindness culture.
Limited one period sessions also available for Year 11 psychology students on pro-social behaviour.
Every workshop is unique and based on current research findings in applied compassion/neuroscience.
CUSTOM COMPASSION WORKSHOPS
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CONNECTION -
COMPASSION COLLECTIVE
MINDFULNESS
Tracey is Catherine’s first partner in The Kindness Challenge. Tracey was awarded Australian Teacher of the Year 2009, recognising Tracey’s ability to help students, their families and communities thrive.
Tracey runs Trackydak Youth Coaching and is working with The Kindness Challenge to offer workshop areas in her specialist areas of meditation and mindfulness training; self-compassion and dealing with stress.
INCLUSION
The Periscope Crew is a crew of passionate young people with disabilities who have come together to give our talents the opportunity to truly shine.
They have talented photographers and cinematographers, inspirational interviewers and anchors, a detail-obsessed research team and the best possible production support. True inclusion will only happen if we get to tell our own stories from our own perspective and using our own skills. TPC is changing perspectives and changing the world!
Ella is the passionate founder of quarterly wellbeing resource FORTH Magazine and an avid advocate for mental health recovery and prevention. Her story has been a catalyst for her passion based entrepreneurship and finding a unique pathway of purpose.
Based on her own lived experience in psychiatric hospitalisation, Ella speaks candidly and honestly about her own healing and the importance of living a life that takes care of our mind. She is regularly involved in facilitation with young people around mental health and choosing a pathway that makes them feel most fulfilled.
THE PERISCOPE CREW
TRACEY ANTHONY
FORTH MIND