Speaking Topics
Dr Justin Coulson offers a range of engaging presentations designed to support students, empower staff, and equip parents. Choose individual sessions to address specific needs, or maximise your impact by booking the complete program for all three audiences.
This flexible approach allows you to:
- Target specific areas: Select sessions focused on student wellbeing, staff development, or parent engagement.
- Customise your program: Mix and match sessions from various topics to create a full-day professional development experience tailored to your school’s priorities.
- Create a unified approach: Foster a school-wide culture of wellbeing by providing consistent messaging and strategies across the entire school community.
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Offerings
Single Session
Choose any staff, student or parent presentation from the offering
- One session delivered by Dr Justin Coulson
- Pre-presentation phone consultation with Dr Justin Coulson
- Marketing collateral & support
Half Day
Choose any two staff, student or parent presentations from the offering
- One session delivered by Dr Justin Coulson
- Pre-presentation phone consultation with Dr Justin Coulson
- Marketing collateral & support
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Full Day
Choose any three staff, student or parent presentations from the offering
- One session delivered by Dr Justin Coulson
- Pre-presentation phone consultation with Dr Justin Coulson
- Marketing collateral & support
MOST POPULAR
Happier
- Wellbeing Solutions for Improved Focus and Fulfilment at School
- Happier: Wellbeing Solutions for Improved Focus and Fulfilment at School will provide educators with practical strategies and evidence-based insights from positive psychology to prioritise their wellbeing, manage stress effectively, and enhance their overall quality of life, both personally and professionally.
Motivated
- Boosting Active Learning in the Classroom
- Motivated will provide educators with practical, science-backed strategies to boost student engagement, motivation, and active learning in the classroom.
Carrots and Sticks in the Classroom
- Why They Fail, and How to Teach More and Manage Behaviour Less
- Carrots and Sticks in the Classroom is designed to help teachers move beyond outdated reward and punishment models to create a positive learning environment where students thrive.
Anxiety in the Classroom
- Anxiety in the Classroom is a session that will equip teachers with tools to recognise, respond to, and manage anxiety in students, fostering a supportive classroom environment.
Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom
- Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom will equip educators with the tools to understand and manage emotions, de-escalate conflict, and create a more positive and productive learning environment.
Cultivating Resilience in the Classroom
- Cultivating Resilience in the Classroom will provide educators with evidence-based techniques and classroom-ready tools to foster a growth mindset, enhance emotional regulation, and create a supportive learning environment where every student can flourish. This presentation will equip staff with effective strategies to support student wellbeing and create a positive learning environment.
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Growth Mindset
- Transforming Barriers into Opportunities
- Growth Mindset: Transforming Barriers into Opportunities will provide educators with a research-based understanding of growth mindset theory and practical strategies to foster a growth mindset and promote mastery in students.
Attitude is Everything
- Attitude is Everything will provide educators with insights and practical strategies to cultivate a positive attitude, enhance classroom dynamics, and create a more productive and fulfilling learning environment.
The Teenage Brain
- for Teachers
- The Teenage Brain for Teachers will equip educators with a deeper understanding of adolescent brain development in order to create a supportive and engaging learning environment.
Perfectionism in the Classroom
- Perfectionism in the Classroom will provide educators with strategies to understand and address perfectionism in students, fostering a growth mindset and resilience.
Teaching Boys
- Teaching Boys is a presentation that will equip teachers with the knowledge and strategies to better understand, support, and empower teenage boys in the classroom.
ADHD in the Classroom
- ADHD in the Classroom will provide teachers with effective tools and strategies to create an ADHD-friendly classroom where every student can thrive. In this presentation, teachers will also learn how to turn challenges into opportunities for learning and growth.
Neurodivergence in the Classroom
- Neurodivergence in the Classroom will equip teachers with the skills and strategies to create an inclusive and supportive learning environment where neurodivergent students can flourish.
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Resilience
- Building stronger kids through life's challenges
- In Resilience, Dr Justin Coulson challenges the idea that childhood should be free from stress and struggle. He argues that challenges are essential for growth and that parents can empower their children by allowing them to experience developmentally appropriate adversity while providing the right kind of support to help them overcome it.
Dysregulated
- How to manage tantrums, meltdowns, and other big emotions
- Emotional Regulation: A Heart-Centred Approach to Supporting Your Child will teach parents a powerful 5-step process to help children navigate their emotional world, reduce meltdowns, and build resilience.
Anxious
- Helping Your Child Navigate a World of Worry
- Anxious: Helping Your Child Navigate a World of Worry will provide parents with practical, clinically proven strategies to help parents support their anxious children and build resilience.
Unplug Childhood
- Unplug Childhood will equip parents of primary school-aged children with practical strategies to navigate the digital age, including delaying screen time, fostering real-world connections, and modelling healthy technology use for a balanced childhood.
Miss-connection
- Why Your Teenage Daughter 'Hates' You, Expects the World, and Needs to Talk
- Miss-connection will guide parents to reconnect with their teenage daughters, understand their struggles, and support them through the ups and downs of adolescence.
Boys
- Building Strong Young Men From The Inside Out
- Boys will provide parents with valuable insights into the unique challenges facing teenage boys, empowering them to support their journey to becoming confident young men.
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Breaking Point
- Unpacking the Crisis in Youth Mental Health
- Breaking Point: Unpacking the Crisis in Youth Mental Health will equip parents and educators with the knowledge and tools to understand the current mental health crisis, address its root causes, and support children in developing resilience and wellbeing. This presentation will foster a collaborative and proactive approach to promoting mental wellness in families and schools.
Tweens, Teens, and Screens
- Balancing Protection and Progress
- Tweens, Teens, and Screens will highlight what parents really need to know about the dangers of the online world. In this session, Dr Justin Coulson will give clarity and guidance on navigating screen boundaries, equipping parents with the tools they need to have effective conversations with their kids.
Carrots and Sticks
- Better Ways to Build Boundaries With Your Kids
- Carrots and Sticks will challenge parents to reevaluate traditional punishment and reward systems, offering effective and positive discipline strategies to build strong relationships and guide children successfully.
The Screaming Spiral
- Why We Yell at Our Kids... and How to Break Free
- The Screaming Spiral will help parents understand why yelling doesn't work, providing them with effective, science-backed strategies to get kids to listen without resorting to anger.
Parental Guidance
- Positive solutions for every family
- Parental Guidance will empower parents with effective, science-backed strategies to guide their children effectively while fostering independence, resilience, and emotional wellbeing.
Entitled
- Raising Responsible, Respectful Kids
- Entitled is a session that will equip parents with practical strategies to tackle entitlement in children, fostering gratitude, responsibility, and respect in today's world of instant gratification.
The Teenage Brain
- The Teenage Brain will empower parents to understand their teen's brain, debunk common myths, and navigate adolescence with confidence and connection.
Sex, Consent, and Staying Safe
- Sex, Consent, and Staying Safe will provide parents with the tools and knowledge to confidently guide their teenagers through the complexities of sex, consent, and healthy relationships.
Enough
- Trading Anxiety and Perfectionism for Authentic Growth
- Enough will help parents support their daughters in overcoming self-doubt, anxiety, and perfectionism, and to build a foundation of love and self-acceptance.
Parenting ADHD
- Parenting ADHD is a presentation that will equip parents with practical strategies and support to navigate the challenges of raising a child with ADHD, fostering a more peaceful and fulfilling family life.
Nurturing Neurodivergence
- Nurturing Neurodivergence will empower parents with knowledge, understanding, and support to help their neurodivergent children thrive in a neurotypical world.
Masculinity Masterclass
- Rewrite the Rules
- The Bro Code will help teenage boys redefine masculinity, navigate social pressures, and make smart choices that protect their health and wellbeing.
Enough
- Overcome Self-Doubt and Embrace the True You
- Enough for Teenage Girls will empower girls to overcome self-doubt, embrace their true selves, and navigate the challenges of adolescence with confidence.
Life Beyond High School
- Transform Stress into Life-Time Success
- The Year 12 Glow-Up will help students transform stress into success, build resilience, and thrive during this challenging and exciting year.
Respectful Relationships
- Respectful Relationships is a session designed to empower students to build healthy relationships, resist negative influences, and become a force for positive change.
Hacking Your Happiness
- A Game-Changing Toolkit for Emotional Regulation
- Hacking Your Happiness: A Game-Changing Toolkit for Emotional Regulation will empower students to take control of their emotions, reduce stress, improve relationships, and achieve their goals.
Level Up
- Unleash Your Inner Strength
- Level Up: Unleash Your Inner Strength will engage students directly with real-life strategies, inspiring stories, and practical tools to build self-awareness, manage stress, and overcome challenges. This session will empower students to face challenges with confidence and develop a growth mindset.
Riding the Waves
- Tips for Taming Anxiety
- Resilience: Developing Strength, Calm, & Kindness in Our Kids will empower parents with practical strategies to help their children navigate challenges, build inner strength, and thrive in the face of adversity. This presentation will engage parents as partners in building resilience and fostering a supportive home environment.
Parental Guidance
- Positive solutions for every family
- The Parenting Revolution explores what it truly means to be a good parent, unpacking a wide range of parenting styles and revealing evidence-based strategies that help all children thrive.
High Performance Habits
- How to set up systems to achieve the extraordinary
- High Performance Habits will give your team the systems, structure, and accountability they need to follow through on goals, boost productivity, and consistently perform at a high level.
Attitude is Everything
- Attitude is Everything will provide insights and practical strategies to cultivate a positive attitude, enhance workplace dynamics, and create a more productive and fulfilling environment.
Emotional Intelligence at Work and Home
- Why being smart isn’t enough for productivity, success and fulfilment
- Emotional Intelligence at Work and Home will give you practical strategies to enhance relationships, navigate workplace conflicts, and foster empathy, showing how emotional intelligence surpasses IQ in driving success, productivity, and fulfillment.
Motivated: Why People Do What They Do
- Why People Do What They Do explores the core psychological needs that drive human behaviour, offering research-backed insights and practical strategies to foster motivation, wellbeing, and effective leadership in the workplace.
Breaking Point
- Unpacking the Australian Mental Health Crisis
- Breaking Point: Unpacking the Crisis in Youth Mental Health will equip parents and educators with the knowledge and tools to understand the current mental health crisis, address its root causes, and support children in developing resilience and wellbeing. This presentation will foster a collaborative and proactive approach to promoting mental wellness in families and schools.