Professional development, parent workshops and school incursions.

Managing Director, Madhavi Nawana Parker is a widely recognised and dynamic speaker on a broad range of topics, including mindset, emotional resilience, wellbeing, happiness habits and leadership. These presentations are perfect for your staff retreats, conferences and professional development days.

Parent Workshops in Schools on Resilience, Behaviour, Emotional Regulation, Positive Discipline, Neurodivergence help parents develop tools for nourishing their child and teenager’s social emotional wellbeing.

Nikki Wadewitz, Senior Teacher and Workshop Facilitator in Schools, specialises in whole class personal development incursions in schools, to teach young people how to manage emotions, get along with peers, manage conflict and friendship issues and be more confident and resilient so teachers can put their feet up and let Nikki bring in her rich experience about what children need to know to get along and be happier at school.

Nikki has a uniquely warm, compassionate, and insightful enthusiasm that keeps her audience engaged and eager to build and practice new skills. Topics for Students include Wellbeing, Confident Mindsets, Resilience, Friendship Skills, Kindness, and Compassion. Nikki also teaches classes about understanding and valuing Neurodivergence.

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The following list of topics are ready for presentation at symposiums, conferences and events.

Professional and Personal Development with Madhavi Nawana Parker

Build your resilience to keep up with the ups and downs of life.

Wellbeing at work: Finding joy and connection everyday, no matter how much you have on your plate.

How to be happier : Daily habits that work and change your brain in the process.

How to unstick, sticky thoughts: How to reset your mindset, to work in your favour.

Leadership: How to lead with compassion and psychological safety.

The Early Years (0-3yrs) Parent and educator workshops on strategies for develop strong and healthy connections in the brain during the Early years that make all the difference in the years that follow.

Connected and Compassionate Families: What you can do at home, to encourage a happy and meaningful family life.

Child and Teenage Behaviour: What works, what doesn’t and how to get through it.

Neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD, learning difficulties and social emotional difficulties): What every parent and educator can do to help.

Positive Discipline: How to improve communication and cooperation in your home without punishment.

Positive Discipline for homes and classrooms

Practical, evidence based tools that improve relationships in homes and schools to build the necessary foundation for effective discipline. Strategies for communicating boundaries and values, responding to children’s difficult feelings, and knowing what to do instead of punishment and control.

Anxiety and Worry in Children and Teenagers

All children experience some degree of anxiety and worry. This session will help parents and teachers learn to respond in a way that doesn’t further inflame the situation and reduce destructive thinking patterns and improve resilience and wellbeing.

Pro Social Relationships: Helping children and teenagers respond to friendship difficulties and bullying.

Social and friendship challenges are common. Learning how to get along with others, regulate emotions and impulses when socially isolated or threatened and respond proactively to bullying are crucial life skills. This workshop will help parents and professionals identify the difference between bullying and social clumsiness, providing practical and constructive ways for young people to cope with confidence and resilience.

Resilience and Wellbeing.

In this session, parents and professionals will learn essential ways to build resilience and improve wellbeing in childhood and teenage-hood, to build a foundation that enables a happier, more productive and successful future.

Neurodivergence

Understand how Autism/ ADHD/ Learning difficulties and social emotional challenges affect thinking, feeling, and behaviour. Learn practical tools that build confidence and resilience to support young people who are Neurodivergent.

The Early Years (0-3yrs) Parent and educator workshops on strategies for develop strong and healthy connections in the brain during the Early years that make all the difference in the years that follow.

Life education

This workshop helps primary school parents and teachers understand how and when to talk about healthy relationships and sexuality. It is by no means offered as an alternative to the current programs offered in schools. It provides complimentary information focused on how to nourish a child’s mindset around healthy relationships, self respect, respect for others.

Professional Training and Accreditation Days

Learn how to deliver Madhavi Nawana Parker’s practical programs in your School or Allied Health Care setting to build resilience, wellbeing, Confidence, and Social skills in young people. A great day with Madhavi Nawana Parker. For more information, check out our Events Calendar. A limited number of Accreditation Days are offered per year and bookings fill up quickly.

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Transition to school

Starting school is a big step in the lives of young children. This practical workshop will teach how you can provide the best social emotional literacy and resilience foundation for a great start to school. Suitable for Parents and Teaching staff.

Starting middle and high school

This practical workshop will give you an insight into the minds of this age group, how best to respond to their social and emotional needs and prepare them for the next stage of their education.

Social media and technology addiction

Is your child hooked on their device? This workshop will explain how easily they can get hooked and how to turn things around, step by step by establishing the firm, fair and age-appropriate boundaries.

Social emotional literacy and Friendship skills

Learn how to teach young people how to get along with others, manage their feelings, and grow in self-confidence and resilience.

Presentations for Workplaces with Madhavi Nawana Parker:

Staff Wellbeing.
Compassionate and Purposeful Leadership.
Your Mindset at Work.

Workshops for your Class, in your School.

Presented by Senior Teacher, Social Emotional Intelligence and Peer Relationships Specialist, Nikki Wadewitz.

How to be a fantastic friend.

Friendship is a crucial foundation for a young person’s happiness and resilience. Knowing how to be a great friend is a skill that will last a lifetime. Students will learn essential tools to be their best at friendship through this series of three class workshops.

Getting along with your Peers.

This workshop teaches students how to respond to conflict, tricky friendships and different personalities, while keeping their integrity and self confidence in tact. Students will learn essential tools to handle the ups and downs of friendship, through this series of three class workshops.

Emotions, notice them, understand them and handle them like a Pro.

Students learn essential Emotional Intelligence Tools to be more self aware and other aware. They learn how to cope with and respond to their emotions in a constructive and calm way. Students will learn essential tools to understand, cope with and manage their emotions, through this series of three class workshops.

Are you controlling your device or is your device controlling you?

Understand why it’s hard to ignore social media, text messages and other awesome things on your device. You’ll learn how to enjoy time with and without your device so your wellbeing, learning, friendships, family relationships, sports and hobbies continue to flourish.

Starting Middle School/High School

No matter what we say to young people about not caring about what others think, this is the age where they care the most. During this period of psychological change and growth, pre-teens and teenagers want to fit in. They often feel caught between their family values and their social group values. This workshop will help students understand what’s going through their minds and the importance of staying connected to their values. We take this opportunity to talk about what this next stage of school is all about. Students learn what to expect and how to respond to challenges with friends as well as with learning. Students learn valuable stress management tools that will last a lifetime.

Understanding the Growth Mindset

How to use a growth mindset to cope with procrastination, homework, learning challenges, managing workload so your wellbeing and resilience thrives. Students will learn essential tools to develop a Growth Mindset, through this series of three class workshops.

Bullying

How to turn things around if you are a bully and what to do if you are getting bullied. This workshop teaches a compassionate mindset. This workshop is helpful for repairing difficult relationships and starting fresh when bullying has been part of the class culture. Students will learn essential tools to understand, cope with and manage bullying, through this series of three class workshops.

Inclusion

Understanding Neurodivergence to create a warm, compassionate and connected school community.

Keynote speaker and workshop facilitator

Madhavi has an outstanding reputation as a dynamic speaker. She has a natural communication style that uses storytelling, humour and practical guidance.

From all the topics, presentations can be tailored to your needs.

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I attended Madhavi's group on wellbeing and resilience and it was honestly the best seminar on raising children that I have been to! Madhavi has a brilliant way of making the content relevant to everyone in the room and she gives so much practical advice and helpful tips that you leave being much better equipped to deal with the challenges that comes with being a parent!

Jody Williamson

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