Relationship Rules – for Educators

Teachers are trained in curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy. Almost nobody trains them in the thing that determines whether any of it works: relationships. Yet every day in every classroom, connection is won or lost in those small moments – the greeting at the door, the response to defiance, the conversation with a frustrated parent, the student who has decided you don’t like them.

In this warm, funny, and refreshingly practical seminar, Dr Justin Coulson brings the Relationship Rules to the classroom: short, memorable principles drawn from the best relationship science and decades of work with families, students, and schools. These are rules teachers remember in the moment, when a student is escalating, a parent is fuming, or a class has checked out. 

Educators leave with practical ways to build connection without surrendering authority, respond to challenging behaviour without burning relational capital, and rediscover the part of teaching that brought them into the profession in the first place.

Ideal for whole-school staff PD days, leadership teams, and education and wellbeing conferences – for any group of educators who want classrooms that run on connection rather than compliance.