bower(note)™ - A Protocol for Complexity and Crisis in Schools

bower(note)™ is a transformational protocol for the conduct of all meetings. It provides structure and process for meetings that maximises the quality of information produced in a meeting, the documentation of that information, and the prevention of that information from being lost, protecting all parties in the process.

• Provides powerful contractual management and is best embedded in policy and procedure.

• Cost effective and administratively efficient, removing duplication.

• Remediates the fundamental inequalities that constrain problem resolution.

• Aligns responsibility for problems with the authority to produce solutions.

• Outcome driven with an eye to change

• Ameliorates the misunderstandings and differences central to complaints.

• Aligns the boundary between health, education and human services providers and promotes broad collaboration.

• Manages student, parent, and school disputes and staff / leadership issues.

• Deals directly with dysregulation, violence, abuse, and self-harm.

• Transparent, inclusive, contemporaneous and legally protective.

• A communication, recording and intervention process.

Learn the practice and theory of bower(note)™ in a full-day, face-to-face workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to analyse a case study that directly relates to their school context through the bower(method)™ framework for thinking through complexity.

Includes:

Professional Development: 6-hours (face-to-face OR live online available)

Group Coaching: Free 60min monthly (online Q&A)

$502 + GST p/person

When: Friday 17 January

Time: 9:00am-4:30pm

Presenters: Malcolm Robinson and Lisa Wolff

Where: In person at Bower Place, 145 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Cost: $502+ GST p/person (including catering and 1 year subscription to bower(knowledge) for schools – a knowledge and resource repository)

If you are attending this event from country, interstate or overseas locations and require a Teams Link to join – please contact: lisa.wolff@bowerplace.com.au

About the presenters

Malcolm Robinson

Malcolm is a Social Worker, Family Therapist and Mediator with fifty-three years clinical, therapeutic, dispute resolution, negotiation, clinical teaching, and management knowledge and skill working with people with high and complex needs; with fractured and fragmented families; with individuals and whole families corralled by multiple institutional service delivery systems. In child, adolescent and adult mental health, child protection, homelessness, education, addictions, industrial injury, acquired brain injury, disability, criminal justice, youth justice, and family law. He teaches Family Therapy and Systemic Practice and has held pivotal positions in family therapy, mental health, and homelessness. He was a key witness in the Royal Commission into the Institutional Abuse of Children. Malcolm has presented more than four hundred (400) conference papers, presentations, and workshops in Australia, New Zealand, UK, and USA.

Lisa Wolff

Lisa is the Manager of bower(schools). She is a qualified Teacher and Counsellor with 23 years of experience in Independent and State schools in Australia and the UK; as a Classroom Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Aboriginal Education Teacher, Social and Emotional Learning Coordinator, Pastoral Care Coordinator, and Student Counsellor for the past eleven (11) years. Lisa is seasoned in working with children and adults with high and complex needs, complex trauma, grief, loss, neurodivergence, learning difficulties and disabilities, addictions, poverty, and interpersonal difficulties. Lisa is passionate about social justice, fairness, equality, inclusion and creating spaces where collaboration is key in successful outcomes. As manager of bower(schools), Lisa works to equip school staff to transform their practices and reframe student behaviour, leading to a flourishing school culture.