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Staff Workshops for Implementing a Strengths Approach

Professional development for schools and workplaces

There’s a good chance you know the POWER of a strengths-based approach.

But how on earth do you implement and support this across your entire school community?

We are here to help.

MyStrengths trains teachers and staff how to assess student strengths and implement the most-effective positive wellbeing programs.

MyStrengths
Staff Workshops:

Strengths for All
Staff

Boost team morale as staff discover their own top 5 strengths and gain clarity and appreciation for what each person brings to the team.

The easiest and fastest way to get your whole staff team on board with a strengths-based approach.

Staff will:

  • Discover their own top 5 strengths and apply these to their work
  • Work in faculty groups to better understand the contribution each person makes
  • Gain insight into student strengths, learning styles, and growth blocks
  • Who: School staff teams or business groups
  • Where: Your venue or MyStrengths Training Rooms
  • 3 hours
  • $47 pp (+GST)

Strengths-Facilitator
Training

Obtain certification to run the MyStrengths program in your school or workplace.

Get upskilled to become the strengths-champion in your school or workplace.

Staff will:

  • Obtain Strengths-Facilitator Certification
  • Understand the Psychology of strengths
  • Learn to profile individual and group strengths
  • Gain a full suite of resources & tools that you can use to run the MyStrengths program
  • Who: School welfare teams, social workers, SSOs, therapists, life coaches, church leaders, and more
  • Where: Your venue or MyStrengths Training Rooms
  • 2 Days (1: Theory; 1:Prac)
  •  Request a training near you
  • $690 pp (+GST)

SSO
Training

Develop your skills & knowledge to help your school become a positive well-being school.

This one-day course will give you the process and resources to become the Strengths-Expert in your school.

SSO’s will:

  • Obtain Strengths-Facilitator Certification
  • Understand the psychology of strengths
  • Learn to profile individual and group strengths
  • Gain a full suite of resources & tools that you can use to run the MyStrengths program
  • NESA Elective PD
  • Who: Student Support Officers, Chaplains, Pastoral teams
  • Where: Your venue or MyStrengths Training Rooms
  • 2 Days
  • $690 (+GST)

Regional
Schools

We work with you to build a tailored experience for staff, students, and parents to integrate strengths across the whole school community.

We work with you to create a tailored experience that can include staff workshops, student programs, MyStrengths facilitator training, parent seminars and more.

Your school can get:

  • Personalised help to integrate strengths-based learning across the whole school community
  • Insights and data to drive wellbeing decisions
  • Staff upskilled to become Strengths-Facilitators
  • Students who will discover and live out their top 5 strengths
  • Parent training and resources
  • Who: All schools (no matter your size or location)
  • Where: We bring a team to your school
  • 2-3 day engagement

Keynote: Key Issues in Teen Mental Health

An engaging presentation on the latest stats, trends, and strategies for understanding and helping adolescents.

Dan Hardie, Teen Counsellor & MyStrengths Founder, will give your staff the latest insights around the teen mental health crisis and how to best support students.

Staff will discover:

  • The “anxiety” statistics we cannot ignore
  • How mental health affects learning & performance
  • The trends around screens and social media (and what we should do)
  • How to talk with parents about a collective approach
  • Who: School staff teams or anyone working with teens
  • Where: Your venue or online
  • 90 mins
  • $690 (+GST)

Welfare Team
Consultation

We help you make data-driven decisions for the most effective wellbeing programs.

If your students have taken the MyStrengths program you now have so much data and insights. We help your team unpack the data, analyse key trends, and take steps toward better integration in your welfare strategy.

Staff will:

  • Understand student profiles
  • Gain strength-based strategies that enhance wellbeing
  • Discover latest trends, statistics and insights on student wellbeing
  • Integrate all the findings into make data-driven decisions for your school
  • Who: School welfare teams
  • Where: Your venue or online
  • A follow up to the MyStrengths program
  • 90 mins
  • $690 (+GST)

Trusted by hundreds of schools

These schools are putting strengths at the centre of their wellbeing framework. MyStrengths will help you do the same.

Hear how MyStrengths staff workshops are making a difference:

“We want our whole staff to adopt a strengths-approach and know why this is such an important direction for our school. The MyStrengths workshop delivered.”

Avryl Queffert

Deputy Principal, Liverpool Girls HS

“I loved being trained in how to assess and grow a student’s strengths. I’ll use this every week, leading our students to know their strengths.”

Travis Mauvae

SSO, Glenfield Park School
“We’ve been a strengths school for many years, and the MyStrengths platform uses language, resources and tools that is perfect for students.”

Carolyn Heinz

Head of Co-Curricular, Ascham School

    3 Simple Steps
    to get MyStrengths into your school:

    1

    Send Us An Enquiry

    We’ll give you all the information and work with you to deliver programs that suit your aim, timeframe and budget.

    2

    Run MyStrengths Staff Workshops

    Support teachers and staff teams to effectively implement a strengths-based approach in their work with teens.

    3

    Become a
    Strengths-Based School

    Training and resources for students, teachers, and parents. Integrate positive wellbeing into your entire school community.

    Upcoming Training Events

    February Training Event

    Strengths Facilitator Training (John Therry Catholic College)

    Thursday, Jun 20 2024
    8:30am-3:30pm
    February Training Event

    Strengths Facilitator Training (Sutherland)

    Thursday, Sep 26 2024
    8:30am-3:30pm
    February Training Event

    Strengths Facilitator Training (Kingscliff)

    Monday, Dec 02 2024
    8:30am-3:30pm

    Put Strengths at the forefront of your schools positive wellbeing strategy and programs.