Maggie’s extensive experience and recent research has increased her passion for helping adults and adolescents better understand the unique journey of adolescence - the bumpy ride from child to adult. In this 2 day workshop Maggie explains the WHAT, the WHY, the WHAT IF’S, of being an adolescent in our modern world today.

The information contained in the workshop  is recent and designed for:


Teachers, nurses, mental health professionals, police persons, youth workers, psychologists, counsellors, parenting educators, chaplains and juvenile justice workers.


In ADOLESCENT BOOTCAMP you will be shown how to pass on this information in an engaging way. You will explore the following:


  1. •Biological drivers of adolescents

  2. •Brain changes and how they influence behaviour

  3. •What is resilience and how to build it?

  4. •Emotional angst and how they influence behaviour.

  5. •The danger of the adolescent ‘tipping point”.

  6. •Importance of sleep.

  7. •Empowering communication with adolescents,

  8. •Managing stress and threat.

  9. •Adolescents and death, loss and grief.

  10. •Adolescent inability to learn from mistakes.

  11. •Overcoming negative self talk.

  12. •The power of having a voice.

  13. •Explore bullying from an adolescent perspective.

  14. •The importance of ‘lighthouses’

  15. •Creating cultures of care and support.

  16. •Building human connectedness.

  17. •Strategies that strengthen the inner world.

  18. •Effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain.

  19. •Engaging today’s students in high school and TAFE


This highly practical 2 day Bootcamp will be for those who want to make a difference in young people’s life in a profound way. Adolescents are struggling on many levels with the chaos of modern world and need as many well informed highly motivated and committed adults as possible to guide them through this ancient rite of passage. As positive adults you can change lives and this workshop will align you with a network that will hopefully still stay connected sharing best practice, innovations that work and offer support to others who also work with adolescents.


You will leave with copyright permission to use Powerpoint slides, handouts and audio resources in your work with adolescents.


WHEN:               Friday March 18 & Saturday March 19    

TIME:                 9AM - 4PM

WHERE:          Griffith Leagues Club


NORMAL COST: $1500/PP   


There is funding available for a limited number of participants (Griffith Connections is prepared to subsidise the cost of workshop please contact Marg Couch on 69626833)



Registration Form can be downloaded HERE