The annual student-led conference, designed and created by students from Ravenswood and Knox, offers emerging student leaders the opportunity to participate in a student-led workshop series, exploring wellbeing strategies underpinned by the science of Positive Education (wellbeing science) that can be applied to both individual and collective wellbeing.
The 2024 conference workshop themes included the power of agency, the impact of sleep on concentration and cognition, unpacking the impact of ‘busyness’ on productivity, and the power of self-talk in unlocking motivation.
The keynote presentation was led by David Bott, best-selling author, consultant and Director of The Wellbeing Distillery, together with Matthew Johnstone, author and illustrator of I Had a Black Dog. It impressed on students the power of imagery, empathy and conversation in bolstering the wellbeing of young people.
The student-led conference continues to be a powerful initiative that embeds positive psychology and education theory, offering students practical applications to action on the evidence-based approach to wellbeing through their own schools.
‘The student-led wellbeing conference is not only a pathway for students to come together to talk about the importance of wellbeing, but it has the capacity to equip young people with the tools for wellbeing, how it influences teenagers’ lives and the effect it has on us day to day,’ says Abbey Taylor (Year 11). ‘We have been able to discover the power of mindset, self-talk, and the effects of gratitude through student-led workshops and activities exploring these ideas. The conference has now empowered other schools across NSW to replicate their own wellbeing conferences to help spread the awareness of wellbeing in schools.’
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