bower(schools) Sharing Conference

bower(schools) Sharing Conference - Connect. Collaborate. Participate.

Bower Place – 145 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

• School leaders speak about the implementation of the bower(schools) protocols.

• Impact of Responsibility - Authority on teacher morale.

• Changes in the culture & practices within schools.

• Catherine Sanders (Clinical Psychologist) on Developmental Theory for Schools.

• Malcolm Robinson - Authority & Responsibility for School Leaders in 6 statutes.

• Lisa Wolff - Updates and revisions from bower(schools).

• Case studies from the coalface.

• Dilemma of differential inclusion across 3 education systems.

• Managing the NDIS / Education / DCP multi-system funding boundary.

• bower(note) as a whole school solution – from protocol to policy.

• More titles to come.

Bower Place protocols have become a cornerstone for fostering effective communication, consistency, and shared responsibility across educational communities and multi-systems. This conference offers a unique opportunity for educators, administrators, and school leaders to come together and explore the implementation and impact of these protocols within the Bower Schools system.

Whether you are beginning your journey with bower(schools) or seeking to deepen your application, this conference provides a platform for meaningful exchange and professional growth.

Join us as we build stronger schools through shared understanding and intentional practice that actually works. Let’s shape the future—together.

Join us for lunch at Bower Place at 12:30pm. Presentations start from 1:15pm (online or face-to-face)

Where: Bower Place, 145 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia (if you are unable to attend in person and would like to join online please contact: info@bowerplace.com.au)

When: Friday, 25 July 2025

Time: 12:30 – 5:00pm

Cost: FREE

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.

Catherine Sanders

Catherine is a clinical psychologist, registered with the Psychology Board of Australia and member of the Australian Psychological Society, The Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists, and a clinical member and supervisor with the Australian Association of Family Therapy.
Catherine has extensive public and private sector practice experience as teacher and clinician with particular expertise as a family therapist. She has an enduring interest in work with children and their relationships with family, friends and their world.

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.