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: TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE FOR INCREASED STUDENT COMPETENCY

JUSTIN ROBERTS, National Program Director of ReLATE (The MacKillop Institute).

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

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

Opening Presentation: TECHNOLOGY AND WELLBEING

DR MICHAEL CARR-GREGG, Child and Adolescent Psychologist, Author and Presenter

Keynote Presentation: CYBERSAFETY IN CHILDREN AND TEENS

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

STUDENT PANEL – Artificial Intelligence – Where to from Here?

10:45 – 11:15 MORNING TEA

Keynote Presentation: SUPPORTING NEURODIVERSITY WITH SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

DR AN TONG GONG, Clinical Psychologist Specialising in Young Neurodivergent Populations 

Keynote Presentation: HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS AS A FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING

JOHN MARSDEN, Internationally Best-Selling Author, Educator and Founding Principal of Two Schools

STUDENT PANEL 

12:45 – 13:45 LUNCH

13:45 WORKSHOP STREAM ONE

Choose from one of SIX WORKSHOPS inc: 

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

DEVELOPING EDUCATION WITH AGENCY

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

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

DR KEVIN HOUSE, Education Futures Architect at Education in Motion

GREEN SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

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

THE HISTORY OF WELLBEING IN SCHOOLS – WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? 

15:00 WORKSHOP STREAM TWO

Choose from one of SIX WORKSHOPS inc:

SHAN NING, Primary School Principal at The Independent Schools Foundation (ISF) Academy BUILDING CONTEXTUAL WELLBEING AT ISF

SCOTT PANICO, Assistant Principal at The Independent Schools Foundation (ISF) Academy

BUILDING CONTEXTUAL WELLBEING AT ISF

JO PENGELLEY, Educator and Teacher-Librarian with a Passion for Supporting Anxious Students SCHOOL RELUCTANCE, REFUSAL AND AVOIDANCE

SUSAN MCLEAN, Cybersafety Expert, 'Australia's First Cyber Cop', Founder of Cybersafety Solutions. CYBERSAFETY IN CHILDREN AND TEENS

JUSTIN ROBERTS, National Program Director of ReLATE (The MacKillop Institute).

TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE FOR INCREASED STUDENT COMPETENCY

16:00 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

The Independent Schools Foundation

1 Kong Sin Wan Road Pokfulam, Hong Kong