Justin Coulson • Maggie Dent • Jessica Lahey • Marty Wilson • James Anderson • Alfie Kohn
Dr Robert Brooks • Yasmin London • Michael McQueen • Laura Markham
Life is hard for our kids. And if it’s not yet, it’s going to be.
That means our kids need to be strong in all kinds of weather, so they can weather every kind of storm.
And what parent doesn’t want their child to be able to get through life’s many challenges and come out the other side – dare we say it – stronger and better?
That means raising resilient kids.
Learn practical tools and techniques to:
Give your kids the best start for a resilient life
Help them to accept the gift of failure
Support their identity development
Use humour to build their resilience
Stay calm during life’s trickier moments
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1. Retreat
Clear the day on & watch the entire summit as it drops
2. PODCAST
Listen to the summit on the go. You'll have lifetime access, so there's no time pressure
3. ON DEMAND
Our highlight reels will give you the gist of what's in each session. Come back and refer to the resources as you need them!
Early Bird Tickets $149
SAVE $50
Launching March 30, 9am AEDT
This is an online-only event. Available in video or podcast format. Ticket holders will receive lifetime access. Happy Families Members receive an additional 20% off all ticket prices.
PLUS free access to
9 Ways to a Resilient Child
course & digital workbook
(usually $97)
Help your kids recover, adapt & thrive through the storms of life with these resilience experts...
Yasmin London
Digital Resilience
James Anderson
Creating a Growth Mindset
Marty Wilson
The Funny Business of Resilience
Michael McQueen
Post Covid World Kids
Jessica Lahey
The Gift of Failure
Dr Robert Brooks
Coping with Adversity
Dr Justin Coulson
Raising Resilient Kids
Alfie Kohn
Unconditional Parenting
Laura Markham
Calm Parents, Happy Kids
Maggie Dent
10 Resilience Building Blocks
Building resilience to last a lifetime
Real-world issues
We address resilience in the context of 24/7 screens and world-wide disruptions, like the pandemic
Interactive
You will have the opportunity to ask questions and get answers on the day via a chatbox
Actionable advice
Gather helpful tools and techniques to boost your parenting right now, and be prepared for the future
Why do we want resilient children?
Life isn’t always an easy ride. Every person on the planet will experience struggles, challenges and just plain bad days. I think of these as the storms of life.
Being resilient doesn’t mean our kids won’t have to go through stormy weather. It just means that our kids will be able to bounce back from life’s hard knocks and return to normal, healthy functioning more quickly and with less lingering effects.
Instead of drowning in negative emotions, they’ll have the ability to explore new ways forward to get to where they want to be. So their developmental progress isn’t thwarted by some difficult circumstances.
Sounds great! But how in the heck do we do it when we’re strapped for time and mental energy? Fortunately, our panel of speakers are experts in resilience. And each has combed through the research and translated it into practical tips you can put into action straight away.
Tune in for 10 eye-opening sessions (and a bonus live Q&A finale). Together we’ll explore how you can ensure the environment you’re raising your kids in, and the psychological, social and emotional habits you’re instilling, will support their resilience.
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Dr Justin Coulson
Raising Resilient Children
Dr Justin Coulson is the co-host and parenting expert on Channel 9's Parental Guidance, the founder of Happy Families, and one of Australia’s most trusted parenting experts.
Over the past decade he has helped innumerable families with his seven books about raising children, his hundreds of media appearances (including all of Australia’s major news outlets, the Washington Post and the New York Times), and two viral videos that have been viewed a combined 80 million times!
Justin earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Wollongong. He and his wife Kylie have been married since the late 1990s and are the parents of six daughters.
Yasmin London
Digital Resilience
As an ex World Champion athlete, Police Officer and now Director of ySafe, Australia’s largest provider of online safety education, Yasmin has built a team that empowers over 1 million young Australians and their communities to take control of their digital journey.
With 13 years of coalface experience in the NSW Police Force she now provides practical and realistic advice on kids online safety, empowerment and positive technology management.
Yasmin will teach you how to
Have a pro technology ethos when it comes to communicating about technology with your child
Be proactive in self education, and understand the risks and nuances they may face
Actively participate in their online lives with non judgemental curiosity
Understand that the basics work, if you work the basics.
Role model healthy and positive technology use
James Anderson
Creating a Growth Mindset
James Anderson is an Australian-based international speaker, author and educator who shows parents and children how to develop Learnership - the skill of learning. He shows you how the things we say and value influence your child’s mindset in subtle and often unintended ways.
James raises the status of learning from an act to an art.
His Mindset Continuum builds on Carol Dweck's work on Growth Mindsets to give us practical tools to nurture a deeper understanding of ourselves as learners. His description of Learnership – the skill of learning – gives us a powerful way to understand and improve how we engage in the learning process. The result: we get better at getting better!
James will help you learn how
Our resilience is an aspect of the Agency we have in the world
Agency involves the environment to act, the will to act and the power to act
Our mindset is the foundation for being a successful learner and represents our will to Act
What parents say and value shapes your child's mindset in often unexpected and unintended ways
Developing the skill of learning gives us the power to act and future proofs your child
Resilience is just the baseline! With a growth mindset and learnership you can become anti fragile
Marty Wilson
The Funny Business of Resilience
Marty Wilson works with organisations that want resilient people who power through change, stress and disruption. He is a TEDx Speaker and a former Australian Comic of the Year, but is also a registered Pharmacist so he balances proven scientific data with laugh out loud stories. This makes his programs incredibly human and instantly relatable to a wide variety of audiences.
Marty will share with us these important lessons:
Life IS change, so when you refuse to change you don’t just hold onto the past but you lose the future
Make time for health or soon you WILL be making time for illness
Take funny seriously
Michael McQueen
Post Covid World Kids
With clients including KPMG, Pepsi and Cisco, Michael McQueen has helped some of the world’s most successful brands navigate disruption and maintain momentum.
Michael is a regular commentator on TV and radio and his work has featured in publications ranging from the UK DailyMail to Medium.com and the Huffington Post. In addition, Michael is a familiar face on the international conference circuit having shared the stage with the likes of Bill Gates, Dr. John Maxwell and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Michael has spoken to over 500,000 people across 5 continents since 2004, and is known for his engaging, entertaining and practical conference presentations. Having been formerly named Australia’s Keynote Speaker of the Year, Michael has been inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame.
Michael's presentation will cover:
What the metaverse (with games such as Fortnite and Roblox) will mean for our young people and their parents
What the cooling economy means for our young people and their future employment
Changes in the way young people are using social media
The sort of skills that will give today’s young people an edge for their careers in the years ahead
Jessica Lahey
The Gift of Failure
Over twenty years, Jess has taught every grade from sixth to twelfth in both public and private schools, and spent five years teaching in a drug and alcohol rehab for adolescents in Vermont, and serves as a prevention and recovery coach at Sana, a medical detox and recovery center in Stowe, Vermont.
She has written about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and her biweekly column “The Parent Teacher Conference” ran for three years at the New York Times. She designed and wrote the educational curriculum for Amazon Kids’ award-winning animated series The Stinky and Dirty Show, and was a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee.
Jess is a New York Times Best Selling author, and co-hosts the #AmWriting podcast from her empty nest in Vermont. Jess will address the questions
What can parents do to encourage resilience in their children?
When life is overwhelming and parents feel overwhelmed, what can they do to calm themselves so they can be more resilient and help their kids be more resilient?
Emotion coaching: What are the most important things for parents to keep in mind when emotions are running high?
Alfie Kohn
Unconditional Parenting
Alfie Kohn is the American author of 14 books and hundreds of articles on education, parenting, and human behavior.
Alfie works with educators and parents around the world. He lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.
At the Raising Resilient Kids Summit, Alfie will teach us about:
The structural problems in our culture and society that are impeding resilience
Unconditional acceptance and how it underpins a child's capacity to cope
Finding the balance between protective parenting and autonomy support
How finding courage to confront unhappy realities might be the key to uncovering your own resilience
Dr Robert Brooks
Coping with Adversity
Robert Brooks, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist on the faculty (part-time) of Harvard Medical School and former Director of the Department of Psychology at McLean Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in the Boston area.
Dr. Brooks has lectured nationally and internationally and written extensively about such topics as: resilience across the lifespan, parenting and family issues, motivation, learning, and creating positive school and work environments. Dr. Brooks has also served as a consultant to Sesame Street Parents Magazine.
Dr Brooks will help you to learn about:
The lifelong impact that adults can have on a child’s resilience
Exercises for developing empathy in ourselves and our children
Components of a “resilient mindset” and realistic strategies for developing this mindset and resilient behaviors in our children
The importance of identifying and nurturing each child’s “islands of competence” as a major feature of resilience
Laura Markham
Calm Parents, Happy Kids
Dr. Laura Markham earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Columbia University and has worked as a parenting coach with countless families across the world. Dr. Laura’s aspiration is to change the world, one child at a time, by supporting parents.
The proud mother of two thriving young adults who were raised with her peaceful parenting approach, she lives with her husband in New York.
Laura will answer the questions;
What can parents do to encourage resilience in their children?
When life is overwhelming and parents feel overwhelmed, what can they do to calm themselves so they can be more resilient and help their kids be more resilient?
Emotion coaching: What are the most important things for parents to keep in mind when emotions are running high?
MAGGIE DENT
10 Building Blocks to Resilience
Commonly known as the ‘queen of common sense’, Maggie Dent has become one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators. She has a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience, and is an undisputed 'boy champion'.
Maggie is the author of nine major books, including the bestselling Mothering Our Boys and her 2020 release From Boys to Men. She hosts the ABC podcast, Parental As
Anything and in 2021 released a book of the same name. In May 2022, Maggie released her first book about girls, Girlhood: Raising our little girls to be healthy, happy and heard.
Maggie will be be speaking with us about
Safe, nurturing care within the circle of family
How play grows the brain (and shouldn't be substituted in the name of 'education')
Building life skills with your children
Frequently Asked Questions
When is Raising Resilient Kids happening?
The Summit goes live at 10am on Thursday 30th March 2023. You'll also have lifetime access to the recordings.
How much will it cost to register?
Early Bird Tickets are $149 (save $50). Happy Families Members receive an additional 20% off any ticket type.
How long will I have access?
You'll have lifetime access to this resource.
Where is the Summit happening?
This is an online event. You can watch it wherever you have internet access. You'll just need to sign into your Happy Families account using the email address you signed up with.
If I’m a Happy Families member, do I get a special discount?
You sure do! Sign in to your membership and your special members discount will be automatically applied when you add the Summit to your cart.
How will the event be run?
With the exception of Justin's first session at 10am AEDT being live and interactive, each hour on the hour from 10am-9pm, a new recorded session will be released.
Make sure to catch the sessions that are most important to you as there will be a Bonus Q&A at 8pm held live at the end of the night. We know you have a lot going on - parenting, work and other commitments - so if you can't watch it all on the day, that is completely understandable.
All of the presentations are recorded and available after the event, so you can watch them as many times as you like... for life!
Will the Summit be appropriate to watch with my child?
These presentations are designed for adults. We invite you to use your best judgement for what will be appropriate for your child.