Leading Through the Decade of Disorientation
What will educational leaders need to lead well into the future? There is a growing sense across education that the…
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bower(schools)™ Information Session
Wed, 2 Dec, 1:15pm – 1:45pm PST In the early 2000’s Australia changed its mind about locking people up as…
Read moreFrom Embracing Technology to Limiting It
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…
Read moreThe Further You Are the Harder it Gets
In 2021 the National Rural Health Alliance suggested that, while the prevalence of people living with a diagnosed mental illness…
Read morePrincipals Are Meant to Lead Education. So, What is Taking Their Time?
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…
Read moreAdapting Family Therapy for Autistic Young People with Anorexia Nervosa
The treatment of choice for young people with anorexia nervosa is (FT-ED), eating disorders focused family therapy with the Maudsley…
Read moreFrom Fixing the Person to Repairing Relationships
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….
Read moreShared Challenges. Shared Learning. Shared Commitment
The recent bower(schools) National Sharing Conference provided a valuable opportunity for educators to come together for a day of practical…
Read moreFighting for Something that Matters
Practitioners finding themselves embroiled in the same couple argument, session after session can become disheartened and the sense of frustration,…
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