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About People
Sue Roffey, University of Western Sydney: For many years Sue was a teacher of children with emotional and behavioural difficulty - she then became an educational psychologist and from 2001 - 2006 was closely involved with school counsellor training at the University of Western Sydney. She is now an Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research focusing on aspects of emotional literacy. Sue provides seminars and professional development on behaviour, relational values, the development of caring school communities and emotional literacy. Sue also offers Circle Time training. She can be contacted here
Sue has written extensively on issues related to behaviour and relationships in schools. Her books have been recommended both by teachers and other educationalists such as Bill Rogers. Two have been translated. Sample chapters can be downloaded here.
Toni Noble, Australian Catholic University: Toni is a former classroom teacher now working as a senior University lecturer in education and psychology at the Australian Catholic University National. She is widely known as the co-author of many teacher resource books including Eight Ways At Once (using multiple intelligences and the revised Bloom’s taxonomy to differentiate the curriculum); The BOUNCE BACK! program is the 2003 winner of the Robin Winkler Award for applied research in Community Psychology awarded by the Australian Psychological Society. Toni is also NSW representative for the National Coalition Against Bullying and is Co-Editor of Bullying Solutions. Evidence-Based Approaches to Bullying in Australian Schools. All book royalties go to the National Coalition.See her website Bounceback. Toni provides professional development around the world on resilience and differentiated learning. Toni can be contacted here.
Alison Soutter, Educational Psychologist: Alison currently works for the Deparment of Community Services. In her previous role with the Department of Education she initiated many programs to develop positive relationships in schools. Her mentoring programs LEAPS and LAMPS have received wide acclaim. Alison can be contacted here
Liz James, Deputy Principal, Rutherford Public School, Maitland, NSW: Liz gained a Churchill Scholarship to study Emotional Literacy in the UK and USA and maintains strong links there. She has written about her experiences and gives talks to interested schools.
Peta Blood is the director of Circle Speak and an international contributor to the field of restorative practices, with a particular focus on building sustainable practice in schools. She has worked in areas of policing, organisational change and currently within education. Peta has co/authored a number of articles on the implementation of restorative practices in an educational context and is co-founder of the International Centre for Restorative Practices and Peace Building (ICRPPB). Circle Speak offers training, facilitation and consultancy in restorative practices and circles & classroom management. Peta and her colleagues facilitate school professional development sessions and a range of tailored workshops. Contact Details: PO Box 854, Brookvale. NSW 2100 Ph/Fax: (02) 9402 1273 Email: circlespeak@optusnet.com.au For more information: www.circlespeak.com.au
Robyn Hromek, District Guidance Officer and School Counsellor: Robyn has used emotional literacy in her work in schools and has now written about this in Planting the Peace Virus. She has also published Game Time which comes with a CD and is aimed at developing a wide range of social and emotional skills. Her latest book Emotional Coaching has just been shortlised for an award. See Theragames: Promoting Emotional Resilience
Tim Corcoran: Tim Corcoran is a psychologist and is about to leave Queensland for a post at Sheffield University in the UK. Over the past decade he has worked in penal and education (P-12 State schools) contexts. Tim's PhD thesis provides a discursive psychological understanding of State sanctioned exclusion in Queensland. The investigation draws attention to an existing discursive context steeped in moral and psychological deficiencies which does more to disable than enable the person under sanction. Consequently, the thesis calls for future sanctioning practices to embed principles of psychosocial health promotion and to adopt a psychological model supportive of personal, relational and collective wellness in communities.
Adam Blakester was Executive Officer of NAPCAN Foundation from 2003 to 2007. He facilitated many significant shifts in NAPCAN’s work and positioning including: a new strategic focused on vision of every Australian community is child friendly, free of all forms of harm; broadening its networks from child protection to include all child focused practitioners; moving to a national governance structure from a federation structure; and applying leading edge social change theory into all of its work.During the last decade Adam’s speciality has shifted to social change with studies including community development and psychology, facilitation, social leadership and human development.
Jill Pearman, NSW State Co-ordinator for Mindmatters
"Every teacher is a teacher for wellbeing" Jill can be contacted here
Margaret Donnelly, Catholic Schools Office, NSW: Margaret has now completed her Ph.D. which is on crisis intervention in schools.
Louise Rowling, Associate Professor, Sydney University: Louise has established over a 30 year period a National and International reputation for work on school drug education, health promoting schools, loss and grief in schools and school mental health promotion and prevention. She has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation on several occasions and has contributed to the development of materials for the WHO Global School Health Initiative. She is currently President of 'Intercamhs' the International Alliance of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools. Louise was co-director of the research and development phase of MindMatters, the Australian school mental health promotion project and has been chair of the National Evaluation Committee in the program's dissemination phase. She is currently conducting a capacity mapping project for child mental health promotion and prevention in the South West Pacific region. Louise has published widely. Her publications include "Mental Health Promotion and Young People" and "Grief in School Communities". She is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at state, national and international conferences. Louise can be contacted here
Maree Stanley, National Coalition Against Bullying: Maree is the General Manager, Prevention at The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, a national children’s charity working towards keeping children safe from violence by providing care, prevention programs and advocacy. Maree has been a practicing teacher for more than 20 years. She developed Better Buddies, a new concept for buddy systems in primary schools and Buddy Bear, the friendly face of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation’s Better Buddies program, is her brainchild. In 2006 Better Buddies was completing rewritten to include the learnings from schools and the two year research study undertaken by the Foundation. Maree has also managed the foundation’s National Safe Schools Framework Best Practice Program, the Children Ahead Crisis Care Program, and has been the Acting CEO of The Foundation. Maree continues to establish ground-breaking initiatives for the Foundation including co-coordinating the National Coalition Against Bullying which raises awareness of bullying nationally and at all levels of society.
James Park, Director, Antidote: the UK Campaign for Emotional Literacy
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