bower(note) for Complexity and Crisis

bower(note) is an information-based protocol for the management of high & complex needs.

· A communication, recording & intervention process.

· Transparent, inclusive, contemporaneous & legally protective.

· Deals directly with dysregulation, violence, abuse, & self-harm.

· Manages student, parent, & school disputes & staff leadership issues.

· Aligns the boundary between health, education & human services providers.

· Ameliorates the misunderstandings & differences central to complaints.

· Cost effective & administratively efficient.

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

· Remediates the fundamental inequalities that constrain problem resolution.

· Best embedded in policy & procedure.

Learn the practice & theory of bower(note) in a full-day, face-to-face workshop.

When: Friday 1 November

Time: 9:00am-4:30pm

Presenters: Malcolm Robinson and Lisa Wolff with partner school Hills Christian Community School

Where: In person at Bower Place, 145 South Tce, Adelaide

Cost: $450 + GST p/person (including catering and 1 year subscription to bower(knowledge) for schools – a knowledge and resource repository)

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.