Positive Schools Asia 2025 Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference

WELLBEING IN ACTION

DAY ONE Friday May 2^nd 2025

All presentations will be spoken in English with the option of a live Chinese translation

7:30: Registrations, arrival tea and coffee

8:45 – MAIN EVENT BEGINS

Day One Opening Performance presented by students from The ISF Academy

Welcome to Day One of Positive Schools Asia

REV RICHARD PENGELLEY, Positive Schools Conference Host and Student Panel Faciliator

Opening Presentation

The ISF Academy, Positive Schools conference partner and event host

Keynote Presentation: BACK TO THE FUTURE OF POSITIVE SCHOOLS

DR HELEN STREET, Positive Schools founder & International Education Consultant

10:30 – 11:00 MORNING TEA

Keynote Presentation: GREEN SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

DR KEVIN HOUSE, Education Futures Architect at Education in Motion

Keynote Presentation: DEVELOPING EDUCATION WITH AGENCY

JANIS COFFEY, School Principal and Chair of  Montessori Schools and Centres Austalia

STUDENT PANEL - Student Agency - Where to from Here?

12:45 – 13:45 LUNCH

Keynote Presentation: EMBRACING NEURODIVERSITY AND NURTURING COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN EDUCATORS AND PARENTS FOLLOWING A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH

Dr. An Gong, Clinical Psychologist specialising in nuerodivergence (Hong Kong)

Keynote Presentation: UNDERSTANDING HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES

PROF. DEBORAH EYRE, Global Educational Leader, Academic Researcher, Writer and Influencer

15:30 Day One Close

DAY TWO Saturday May 3rd 2025

All morning main stage presentations will be spoken in English with the option of a live Chinese translation. All afternoon workshops will be presented in either English or Chinese.

8:00: Registrations, arrival tea and coffee

8:45 – MAIN EVENT BEGINS

Day Two Opening Performance presented by students from The ISF Academy

Welcome to Day Two of Positive Schools Asia

DR HELEN STREET, Positive Schools Conference Chair and Founder

Extended Keynote Presentation: CYBERSAFETY IN CHILDREN AND TEENS

SUSAN MCLEAN, Cybersafety Expert, 'Australia's First Cyber Cop', Founder of Cybersafety Solutions.

10:30 – 10:55 MORNING TEA

Choose from ONE workshop in each session 

SESSION ONE

PROF. DEBORAH EYRE, Global Educational Leader, Academic Researcher, Writer and Influencer UNDERSTANDING HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES

and

STEPHANIE HOWDLE-LANG Renaissance College, Hong Kong - Amplifying STUDENT VOICE

SESSION TWO

DR KEVIN HOUSE, Education Futures Architect at Education in Motion GREEN SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

and

Caitlyn Chan and Wan Cho Yiu, Registered Educational Psychologists' PO LEUNG KUK PROMOTING WELLBEING IN HONG KONG SCHOOLS

12:55 – 13:45 LUNCH

SESSION THREE

DR AN TONG GONG, Clinical Psychologist Specializing in Young Neurodivergent Populations SUPPORTING NEURODIVERSITY WITH SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

and

JANIS COFFEY, School Principal and Chair of  Montessori Schools and Centres Australia  DEVELOPING EDUCATION WITH AGENCY

followed by

STUDENT & PRESENTER PANEL - Exploring the FUTURE OF AI in education - for better and worse.

15:15 Day Two Close

DAY THREE Sunday May 4^th 2025

This full-day workshop will be presented in English with the option of a live Chinese translation

Join Dr Helen Street to create a deep, meaningful exploration of what works in your unique classroom contexts, what challenges need addressing and what steps you want to take to ensure effective, workable wellbeing growth and development. A fully appreciative and systemic approach.

8:00: Registrations, arrival tea and coffee

9:00  – MAIN EVENT BEGINS

Better understand and embrace a Contextual Wellbeing framework for real world wellbeing development in your classrooms, and in your whole school.

Unpack your core values, to establish what matters to you as an educator, and as a person supporting the wellbeing of others.

10:30 – 11:00 MORNING TEA

Learn how to effectively undertake a meaningful wellbeing audit of your classroom or whole school community, to realize what authentically works, what challenges, and what next.

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

Build knowledge and skills to manage resistance to change, and ensure your students, colleagues and parents are on board emotionally as well as practically.

Understand how to measure impact and move forward with confidence, competency and clarity.

15:30 CONFERENCE CLOSE

Conference Location:

The Independent Schools Foundation

1 Kong Sin Wan Road Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Conference Accommodation:

Le Méridien Hong Kong, Cyberport
Cyberport, 100 Cyberport Rd, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

+852 2980 7788