bower(schools)™ Information Session
In the early 2000’s Australia changed its mind about locking people up as its primary strategy for managing mental illness,…
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bower(schools)™ Information Session
In the early 2000’s Australia changed its mind about locking people up as its primary strategy for managing mental illness,…
Read morebower(schools)™ Information Session
In the early 2000’s Australia changed its mind about locking people up as its primary strategy for managing mental illness,…
Read moreFrom Complexity to Clarity: The Bower Place Model™ for Schools
When: 9:00am-4:30pm, Friday, 9 October 2026 This workshop provides a protocol and structured framework for school leaders, addressing multi-system challenges,…
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Twenty years ago, school leaders were asking: How do we get more technology into classrooms? Today, increasingly, they are being…
Read moreWe Can’t Change the Past, but We Can Change the Future
Cumulative childhood trauma (CCT), experiences of different types of interpersonal trauma before 18 years old, has negative consequences for a…
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In 2021 the National Rural Health Alliance suggested that, while the prevalence of people living with a diagnosed mental illness…
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What if one of the biggest threats to principal wellbeing isn’t simply workload but the constant complexity of navigating it?…
Read moreSuicide and the Family; How Can We Help?
September 10th marked the third WHO, World Suicide Prevention Day with the theme ‘Changing the Narrative on Suicide’. With 720,000…
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The treatment of choice for young people with anorexia nervosa is (FT-ED), eating disorders focused family therapy with the Maudsley…
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Systemic practitioners and their clients often come to therapy with very different views about the pathway to change, especially when…
Read moreA Creative Approach to Diagnosis
Systemic therapists can sometimes find themselves corralled by the seemingly inflexible psychiatric and mental health diagnoses presented by their clients….
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