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Last week we continued our journey as a school community that underlines proactive approaches to wellbeing and resilience of our students. Wellbeing Coordinators were trained in the Resilient IMPACT program by the LBI Foundation and SAHMRI.The entire IMPACT program is underpinned and supported by measurement, evaluation and quality, and at its centre-point, and is founded upon an intentional practice methodology, which is operationalised through the content. IMPACT stands for Intentional Model and Practice Approach for Clients to Thrive.

Resilient IMPACT is designed to build “thriving children and young people in educational settings” with the goal of “assisting our young to acquire the core knowledge, skills and resources for life-long wellbeing, resilience and learning, and to engage meaningfully within their identified community.”

Last week we were encouraged to think of Intentional Practice as being mindful of how we are creating activating (life giving) experiences for others in a ‘side by side’ relationship.  For our children we are ultimately saying “I see you, I hear you and what you say matters to me.”

 We were also invited to see “attention seeking” behaviour as a child or adolescent’s “connection seeking” response to their world. Furthermore, if it is connection seeking, then there is a joint adult and child / adolescent responsibility in resolving the issue, because any child who is acting out, is telling us adults (the bigger, stronger, wiser safe base) that they are not feeling safe in that environment. As such we were invited to consider how we as adults seek unconditional connection with our young.

I look with anticipation to the effect Resilient IMPACT will have on our community.

David Mezinec | Principal

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