Do you want to be part of a groundbreaking Pilot Program where you get FREE Professional Development AND a 2025 Whole of School Mental Health & Behaviour Blueprint?
REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL FOR FREE
Stop wasting precious time putting out fires!
Re-ignite a LOVE of teaching for your staff and learning for your students, with the STARR Three Step Path to build STAYING POWER LEADERSHIP in your School!
Step One
Come along to our FREE, in person event - R.E.S.P.E.C.T!
On Thursday, 17th October at Mossgiel Park Primary School, Endeavour Hills
Founder of STARR Collective Institute, Bron Lea & Principal Lynn Ordish, invite you and a plus one to come along to a FREE, live 3 hour training!
Step Two
Whole of School Mental Health & Behaviour Blueprint
We meet with a representative from your school (principal, teacher or support staff) for a FREE 30 minute online consultation, then prepare an extensive diagnostic blueprint for you to address the emotional, mental health and behavioural challenges within your school community.
Step Three
Brilliance Without Burnout! STARR Sustainable Leadership in Schools Pilot Program
A year long, designed for you and DONE WITH YOU, all inclusive package of TRANSFORMATIVE emotional intelligence and mental health management for your school community, across 2025 and BEYOND!
Step One
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for Schools!
Over 3 hours, you'll learn about important new research and links between mental health, classroom behaviour, developmental delays, workplace stress in schools and trauma. PLUS, receive your own CUSTOMISED, foundational blueprint for a positive school climate that promotes learning and community wellbeing with…
Revitalised
Engaged
Supported
Passionate
Empowered
Connected
Teachers
Register your school for free
During this FREE training for principals, teachers and key support staff, we'll provide the latest BEST PRACTICE research, tools and tips for improved outcomes in 3 KEY areas across your school:
Staff & Student Health
Proven, simple to implement, best practice strategies that can make a WORLD of difference to managing conflict and chaos - in and out of the classroom - while maintaining mental and emotional well-being.
Classroom Health
Learn the science behind managing the maelstrom of energy and emotions within the classroom, and how to create an environment that nurtures calm, confident learning.
School Community Health
Find out how to regulate your school community's central nervous system,
AND get our exclusive Super STARR School Structure for Success, easy to follow foundational framework.
Ticking the necessary boxes when planning your curriculum is, of course, crucial.
Just as necessary is laying a foundation for less stress induced sick days, overwhelm and burnout among staff and students, so you can achieve better results across the board in terms of teacher retention and learning outcomes, over 2025 and beyond!
Our approach to mental health and classroom behaviour is different and goes deeper than any other professional development methods you’ve experienced. We guarantee it!
Which is why we want to share our exact methods and formula for managing mental health with more success and less stress in your workplace, show and tell style, at this FREE, in person event.
Is staff burnout, escalating behavioural problems and mental health issues among your student population (and parents!) causing issues with teacher retention and learning outcomes in your school?
Are you feeling fatigued as you get to the end of 2024, and look down the barrel of another year hot on its heels, with less certainty as to what you can expect?
Let us guide you to see what’s possible during this FREE 3 hour training. AND establish a SOLID foundation for your school community’s 2025 well-being blueprint; giving you extra focus, confidence and clarity as you plan for the next 12 months!
Register your school for free
Bring a valued member of your team to our in person training, where you'll discover the latest evidence based research and best practice principles behind;
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REGULATING the classroom nervous system, to foster an environment where everyone feels safe to THRIVE in their highest potential.
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ENCOURAGING CALM, CONFIDENT and ENGAGED, independent learning.
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SUPPORTING staff with STARR's CAPTAIN WITH CONFIDENCE, foundational Emotional Intelligence framework for leadership, connection and communication in the classroom.
- PLANNING your next 12 months with our BEHAVIOURAL BLUEPRINT to help staff better understand what's happening BEANEATH THE SURFACE of seemingly endless struggles with some of their students (so they can finally be resolved in a way that works!).
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ENGAGING teachers with CONSISTENT mental health hygiene for less stress induced sick days, and providing practical micro-steps to support emotional regulation and resilience.
- CREATING a long term, whole of school mental health management plan to address issues currently putting pressure on your school's budget, bottom line and performance.
- TEACHING leadership strategies and skills to promote LASTING mental health and behavioural changes, for a positive ripple effect throughout your entire school.
Set your school on a fast track to better mental health and learning outcomes in 2025!
EVENT DETAILS;
WHEN: Thursday, 17th October
Registration: 9.30am for a 10am start
WHERE: Mossgiel Park Primary School
71 Scotsburn Way, Endeavour Hills
REGISTRATION CLOSES: We ask that you RSVP by COB on Friday, 21st September for catering purposes. Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided.
We invite you to bring a PLUS ONE teacher or support staff member of your choice to this FREE training…
Register your school for free
To complement STEP ONE of our STARR path to staying power leadership, you also get STEP TWO FREE!
EVERY SCHOOL that registers AND attends the October, in-person training receives a BONUS School Community Mental Health & Behaviour Assessment Blueprint!
Step Two
Whole of School Mental Health & Behaviour Blueprint
We meet with a representative from your school (principal, teacher or support staff) for a FREE 30 minute consultation, then prepare an extensive report for you covering;
✅ Underlying reasons for repeat problem patterns with staff and students at school.
✅ Key areas of mental health management to maximise positive learning outcomes and teacher retention.
✅ Subtle micro shifts to create long term, compounding wins in how staff address stress, conflict and resistance in the classroom.
✅ Ways to recognise and resolve "beneath the surface" problems in your school community, with proactive solutions that get straight to the root cause.
The Bonus School Community Mental Health & Behaviour Assessment Blueprint is yours FREE when you attend our LIVE event on October 18th!
☎️ You also receive a second FREE FOLLOW UP CALL, to discuss any questions regarding implementing the Mental Health & Behaviour Blueprint.
THEN, you can choose to use your BLUEPRINT as the foundation for STEP THREE!
Step Three
Brilliance Without Burnout!
The STARR Sustainable Leadership in Schools Pilot Program
What is it?
This is not your typical “one and done” professional development training or online course.
Our Brilliance Without Burnout, Sustainable Leadership in Schools Pilot Program is a year long, designed for you and done with you all inclusive package of RADICAL TRANSFORMATION, emotional intelligence and optimal mental health management for your entire school community, across 2025 and BEYOND!
Where you’ll have access to consistent in-house support for your staff and school, each and every week in real time!
We'll share more details during the FREE in person event. You can also request a Training Prospectus via email. Send the word 'Prospectus' to [email protected] for a copy of the Brilliance Without Burnout; Sustainable Leadership In Schools Pilot Program Outline.
Why do you need this?
It will likely come as little surprise to you that since pre-Covid days, the number of mental health claims filed by teachers has GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY, according to WorkSafe Victoria.
From 2019 to the end of 2023, mental health claims almost DOUBLED, from 166 to 241 across primary and secondary schools.
Almost half of Australian teachers were considering QUITTING within the next year, according to a 2023 report from the Black Dog Institute; an increase of 14 per cent from 2021.
The report surveyed more than 4000 teachers, who said 60 percent of teacher absences in a single month were due to a mental health or emotional problem.
"The data suggests we are looking at a profession in crisis," Associate Professor Aliza Werner-Seidler said.
"Teachers are working longer hours with fewer resources and this pressure is building with an increase of burnout and time being taken off due to mental ill-health."
An Australian Education Union survey of 430 Victorian teachers found over a third of schools are being forced to increase class sizes to manage shortages.
Almost 40 per cent said they were using principals and assistant principals to help fill gaps in the classroom.
In Queensland (between 2015 and 2022), more than $322 million in workers’ compensation was paid to teaching staff.
You KNOW something needs to CHANGE!
But CHANGE won’t happen with more of the SAME approach to mental and emotional health in your school. Or more “Skim the Surface” Professional Development Training Programs.
Register your school for free
Which is why at the end of our FREE training & School Health Assessment, we'll invite you to explore our Step Three solution...
✅ STARR's Year Long designed for you and done with you - Brilliance Without Burnout - Sustainable Leadership in Schools Pilot Program
RESTORE your teaching staff’s capacity to lead with confidence, and uncover the ROOT CAUSE of problem behaviours in the classrooms (and staff room) at your school.
Every school is a unique ecosystem. A community, with its own psycho-dynamics and social dramas unfolding each day. And where everyone has the capacity to THRIVE, with the right supports.
However, most traditional professional development and training only skims the surface of what’s happening in your school.
You DON'T Need More...
❌ Money spent on paying people to point out MORE of the obvious to you...again!
❌ Tips, strategies, systems or workbooks on behaviour to somehow integrate (ON YOUR OWN!) across every classroom, FORCING them on reluctant (bordering on BURNT OUT) staff.
❌ One and Done "Experts" who barely speak with staff, ACT like they know your school inside out and BETTER than YOU, and then leave a mess of teachers who feel "talked down to" in their wake (for YOU to clean up!).
You NEED a dedicated team of professionals, working with you to:
Assess
Diagnose exactly where YOUR school community REALLY NEEDS additional support and scaffolding (blind spots you might not be able to see, because you're too close!)
Action
Create a designed for you action plan to meet your community, staff and students where they’re at, with micro steps to make the changes you ALL NEED to happen, efficiently.
Assist
Trauma-informed behavioural, developmental and educational support, PLUS guidance across EVERY aspect of your school community's mental and emotional well-being across 2025.
So that by the end of 2025 your staff, students, your ENTIRE SCHOOL will be celebrating achievements you cannot even IMAGINE right now, from where you currently FEEL STUCK!
Watch Your Teaching Staff Go From...
❌ Dropping like flies with burnout and fatigue
➡️ TO stress free, sick free, emotionally regulated and resilient teachers who can stay cool in any chaos; demonstrating next level leadership.
❌ Dragging themselves into class more reluctantly than the kids
➡️ TO rejuvenated and ready to hit the ground running at the start of each school day.
❌ Feeling overwhelmed with problem behaviours and little to no help from parents
➡️ TO knowing how to interpret behaviours like experts (from a neuroscience perspective!), communicate through conflict and create win-win based resolutions and outcomes.
❌ Struggling to maintain professional boundaries in the midst of the energy in class each day
➡️ TO uplevelling their leadership skills, masterfully dealing with conflict, breaking through resistance, and modelling emotional management with authority.
❌ Being overrun with micro-managing all the special needs, circumstances and strategies in class
➡️ TO having confidence in their own understanding, intuitive ability, wisdom and capacity to support students in the best way, at any given moment.
3 Step Summary of what you get with STARR...
Here's how we support your school through a totally transformational year!
YOU GET THE FOLLOWING FREE & WITH NO OBLIGATION!
✅ 3 hour training: Learn the science behind your classroom and school community nervous system, how to create an environment that nurtures calm, confident learning AND get our exclusive Super STARR School Structure for Success, easy to follow foundational framework.
✅ BONUS Whole of School Assessment: That we use to create a Designed For You Behaviour Blueprint and Plan.
✅ BONUS implementation follow up call and Q & A.
THEN, you can partner with us to create a designed for you and done with you, year long professional development program for your teaching staff based on our whole of school assessment, findings and blueprint!
Introducing our exclusive...
STARR Brilliance without Burnout
Sustainable Leadership in Schools Pilot Program
A FULL YEAR of trainings, tips, tools & transformative action steps to build emotional intelligence and resilience, master mental health and get on top of problem behaviours at your school.
Inclusions:
Professional Development for up to 50 staff
✅ 1 x LIVE full day training (in person or online) at the start of the school year
✅ 2 x 2 hour LIVE online trainings each term (16 additional online PD hours)
School Investment: $5,000 + GST
(PLUS: You get to keep recordings of ALL the trainings for life!)
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL...
Teachers, well-being and support staff from participating Pilot Program schools,
will also be invited to take part in our...
STARR Brilliance Without Burnout |Captain's Quest
Professional Membership
This is a year long voyage to confidently embrace your steadfast, sturdy inner leader. So teachers can captain their classroom with confidence, resilience and staying power!
Find your unique leadership skills, capacity, resources and strengths.
As we help you work through classroom conflict, communication breakdowns or other challenges, for an entire year in real time.
You get weekly, LIVE "Class In Session" calls that combine a fun, gamified experience of learning and integrating new tools to make behavioural management and regulation so much easier, as you;
🚀 Explore the science of emotional intelligence and what its role is in classroom leadership
🚀 Gain a greater awareness of yourself and others, to improve communication and navigate tricky conversations and circumstances
🚀 Understand how to set and maintain the classroom tone and energy, to positively impact staff and student wellbeing
🚀 Develop the confidence to stay clam and clear in high pressure moments of chaos
🚀 Foster empathy, resilience and interpersonal courage in relationships
🚀 Cultivate a leadership mentality of perseverance and open mindedness.
WHAT THE MEMBERSHIP LOOKS LIKE;
✅ Captain's Quest weekly LIVE Leadership calls, delivered over the entire 10 school months.
✅ Schools can partially or fully subsidise placements for staff who show an interest in the membership component of the program.
✅ Membership covers the entire school year, with our STARR School Wellness Support team available for weekly, after hours sessions to answer specific classroom questions, and provide guidance in implementing proven micro steps for better behaviour and mental health management and all of school, emotional intelligence (designed specifically for YOU).
✅ Private ‘Self Care for Calm in the Classroom’, Online Learning & Resource Library.
Teacher Investment: $198/month per participant
(TOTAL - $1,782 for the entire school year, per staff member)
"Every great leader is clearly teaching. And every great teacher is leading."
HEAR FROM Lynn Ordish, Principal from Mossgiel Park Primary School in Victoria, about her experience of the STARR Leadership for Life program.
With 40 plus years of combined experience in education, training and mental health, your dedicated STARR Support Team is made up of Bron Lea, Lynda Monopoli and Karen Andersson.
STARR Collective has achieved significant success with our mental health, empowerment and leadership programs, in private practice and consultation over the last five years.
Now, we’re taking our services into the commercial space to address the increasing financial, social and health burden of workplace stress on individuals, families and business (public and private).
Listen to Lauren's Story; a Middle School Teacher from New Jersey
We've taken the STARR Method all over the world, changing thousands of lives across Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and the UK. Hear how Lauren's experience led her students to feel safe in the classroom, taking risks and excelling academically and emotionally!
Meet Your STARR School Well-Being Support Crew:
Bron Lea; trauma specialist and STARR founder
Bron is a counsellor, educator and consultant specialising in complex, childhood and intergenerational trauma, as well as neurodivergent and developmental disorders.
Prior to establishing a successful professional practice in 2016, then a global Institute of Healing four years later, she worked as a freelance writer for prominent national publications and private clients.
Bron understands trauma from the inside out. Especially the complex interplay between early childhood development and the increasing diagnosis of neurodivergent disorders in pre-adolescents. All three of her children are Autistic (their youngest also Type 1 Diabetic) and homeschooled, with an array of special needs.
Before working through her own trauma 9 years ago, Bron was diagnosed and treated for endometriosis, infertility, PostNatal Depression, cPTSD, carer burnout, anxiety, fibromyalgia, CFS, Aspergers and ADHD.
In 2011, she founded an Autism Advocacy Not For Profit, and in 2013 collaborated with Monash University, RCH, AMAZE, DHS, the DET, Noah’s Ark, LCHS and numerous regional schools in Gippsland to coordinate the first ever international conference where 90% of speakers were from the autistic community. Including keynote speaker John Elder Robison, who inspired Sheldon Cooper’s character from The Big Bang Theory.
Bron had a best selling book on Autism published in over 30 countries in 2015, before directing her focus toward trauma work 8 years ago. Since then, she’s helped thousands of women across the world recover from mental health related illness.
She founded the STARR Collective Institute in 2020, and commenced training professionals across numerous industries to better understand and work with trauma.
Bron focuses on the science AND spirit behind mental health disorders, bringing a unique approach that recognises and resources every person who goes through STARR programs into their fullest potential as a confident, calm and capable leader.
Lynda Monopoli; Psychotherapist and STARR Training Operations Manager
Lynda is a dedicated counsellor, psychotherapist, and hypnotherapist with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Since beginning her private practice in 2016, Lynda has specialised in the study of trauma, becoming a complex trauma specialist within her own business, Amorah Healing and the STARR Collective Institute. She integrates science and spiritual-based practices to facilitate long-term mental healthcare, providing holistic and effective methods for her clients.
Throughout her career, Lynda has made contributions to the development of innovative therapeutic programs within STARR Collective, and successfully helped clients around the world achieve lasting transformation and wellbeing.
Lynda has gained profound insights into the deep-rooted impacts of trauma on individuals, families and communities, and understands the necessity of a compassionate, tailored approach to healing.
She also has a special interest in empowering women and addressing issues related to menopause, focusing on supporting women through these significant life transitions. Her commitment to professional growth and client well-being underscores her commitment to service in the field of counselling and psychotherapy.
Karen Andersson (aka Karnie); Counsellor, STARR Practitioner and Teacher
As a top 10% graduate from Teacher’s College 40 years ago, Karnie secured a job immediately as District Relieving Teacher. A role that quickly taught her how to connect with children and staff alike, and the importance of setting classroom tone within the first few minutes, to create a calm, safe, focused learning environment.
Throughout her dynamic career in Education, Karnie’s taught across all academic levels, been part of Leadership and Planning Teams tasked with implementing curriculum initiatives and policy, and was nominated to become a Statewide Numeracy Trainer.
She excels in developing rich relationships and rapport with kids, colleagues and parents alike. Her interpersonal skills are remarkable, and her passion for authentic connection has seen Karnie hold many wellbeing based roles and sit on numerous school committees.
One of her career highlights was being Welfare Officer for the Department of Ed; developing policy within schools to facilitate improved relationships and interactions across the community.
Karnie's passion for learning saw her return to University for her Transpersonal Counselling and Complex Trauma qualifications; learning strategies she’s successfully implemented into classroom scenarios.
Alongside teaching part time at a senior level, Karnie is a Trauma Counsellor and meditation teacher. She remains in contact with many former students; who remember her fondly as a calm, nurturing influence in their life, integral to their academic success.
I’m a Mum of two gorgeous girls (10 & 7yo). I always knew I was meant to be a mum and while my instincts were in tune, I still had a lot of self doubt, due to my past. I learned and tried different modalities, which ultimately led to diving deeper with STARR. I have so much more awareness now, and can see when situations playing out in our home are not mine. So instead of joining in, I can hold supportive, nurturing space. The difference that makes is incredible.
I see my children from a different perspective. As unique souls; teaching and guiding me, and I in turn do the same for them. And our family as a unit that works together, supporting and complimenting each other. Each with our own purpose in the world. I trust my children to walk their own path, offering my guidance with the love, affection and support I never felt I received. Thank you Bron! STARR is unlike any other modality out there, it truly does create long term results!
Kate | WA
STARR Emotional Intelligence Parenting Program
In a nutshell, amazing. The journey Bron guided me on each week really helped me get to the root cause of my problems very quickly. By getting to the heart of my issues I was able to actually deal with them, heal and let them go. The process is rapid and life changing.
Sara | Melbourne
STARR Leadership for Life Program
Why wouldn't you want to be able to understand your child more, what makes them tick? Be able to connect with them and have open and honest conversations, with less arguments.
Why wouldn't you want to know how you can best support them? To find yourself not reacting based on how you feel, but from what your child needs in that moment, is truly life changing. Your confidence grows as a parent because you're parenting from a place of love, compassion and understanding, not from a place of fear or how a parent is 'meant' to react when your child does something 'wrong'. Parenting exactly how each individual child needs to be supported as they make their own journey through life is the way it should be. The insight you gain on your children is priceless!!!"
Estelle | SA
STARR Emotional Intelligence Parenting Program
Hear from other clients about their STARR experience...
Annie
Changed my life! And I don’t mean OMG you changed my life and a week later we're back to square one. This is a seriously incredible life changing experience.
Jodie
Gosh where to begin? The most empowering, transformative, tailor made, mind blowing, enriching experience you’re ever likely to undertake.
Tori
Who even am I? The change I’ve noticed in myself the past few weeks is absolutely amazing!
Suzi
Over the last 30 years, I've completed courses from Louise Hay, Joe Dispenza and many more. Your program has made the most noticeable difference, in a really short time.
