SUMMIT SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Calm Connected Tweens and Teens

FREE Online Parenting Summit

21-23 Feb, 2025

Our speakers will help you build trust and connection to survive the teenage years and build a close relationship with your teen to last a lifetime.

It truly is possible. Your great relationship with your teen starts here.

FREE  (Value: $799)   + get a bonus free gift for registering!

Strong Relationships

Wellbeing

Independence & Resilience

Practical Advice From Our World Renowned Parenting Experts

Our experts will help you with the challenges faced by parents and their teens

DAY 1: Friday, 21st Feb

Maggie Dent

Helping You Build A Close Relationship With Your Teen

Maggie Dent is known as the ‘queen of common sense’, and is one of Australia's favourite parenting podcasters, authors and educators. She has a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience, and is an undisputed 'boy champion'.

Andrew Fuller

Parenting Tricky Tweens & Teens

Andrew Fuller is a clinical psychologist, speaker, family therapist, creator of Learning Strengths ™ and author of 'Tricky Teens'. He's worked with over 4,000 schools and communities, and with more than 500,000 young people.

Michelle Mitchell

Communicating With Your Teen So They Want To Follow

Michelle is a speaker, author of 'Tweens', and the founder of Youth Excel - delivering life skills programs and psychological services to thousands of young people and their families. She offers compassionate and grounded advice for parenting tweens and teens.

Kirra Pendergast

Keeping Your Teen Safe On Social Media

Kirra is an international expert in online safety. Her  proactive and compassionate approach to online safety education emphasises practical safety without fear-mongering. She's the founder of 'Safe On Social', a group of companies leading global cyber safety education.

Dr Vanessa Lapointe

Helping Teens Have Better Relationships With Their Siblings

Dr Vanessa is a psychologist, mom, parenting educator, best-selling author and speaker. At her North Star Developmental Clinic, she supports children and families and helps big people see the world through the child’s eyes to help grow up our children in the best possible way.

DAY 2: Saturday, 22nd Feb

Karen Young

Helping Tweens & Teens With Anxiety

Karen is the author of 5 books including the bestselling, 'Hey Warrior'. She's a speaker, consultant and leading authority on child and adolescent anxiety. As the founder of ‘Hey Sigmund’, she provides contemporary, research-driven information on anxiety and the neurodevelopment of children. 

Fareedah Shaheed

Online Safety : how to create a foundation of trust and open communication with your teen

Fareedah Shaheed helps parents protect their kids online. She's an Award-Winning Internet Safety Expert and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. She's collaborated with Meta, H&M, FedEx, NASA, and Mozilla to help educate parents on internet safety and security.

Nathan Wallis

The Teen Brain:
What Parents Need To Know

Nathan is a human development expert on neuroscience, parenting, Maori perspectives, teaching and the wholistic development of young people. He hosts 'Kids Don’t Come With A Manual', 'All in the Mind', and co-hosts 'The Secret Life of Girls'. He appears regularly on radio & TV.

Dr Kirstin Barchia

Creating A Calmer Family
In The Teen Years

Dr Kirstin Barchia is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked with teenagers and their parents for over 20 years. Alongside her face to face clinical private practice, Kirstin has developed the Calm Connection Program for parents of teens and other online resources to support parents of teens build Calm and Connection in their households.

Leslie Josel

Let's Talk About Time: Tips & Tools To Help Tweens & Teens Build Their Time Management Muscle

Leslie is the author of 2 books and creator of the award-winning Academic Planner: A Tool for Time Management® . She's the founder of Order Out Of Chaos and is a respected resource on ADHD and Executive Functioning in students. For 8 years, she's been named one of the top Time Management experts in the world. 

Tyson Greenwood

Navigating Teen Friendships

In 2024, Tyson was named one of Australia's Most Influential Educators. As Director of UR Strong, he presents their Whole-School Friendship strategy to 1000's of educators, parents and students each year. Tyson has a Diploma in Positive Psychology and Wellbeing. 

DAY 3: Sunday, 23rd Feb

Paul Dillon

Alcohol and Your Teenager: What do parents need to know?

For 30 years, Paul's provided schools with quality information & best practice drug education. Through 'Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia' (DARTA) he provides updates on current drug trends, and advice on alcohol and drug issues. He's the author of 'Teenagers, Alcohol and Drugs' and has a blog and podcast.

Jenny Atkinson

Helping Teens Build Confidence & Resilience

Jenny is an author, speaker, parent and teacher. She founded Sparks Education Australia and High School Hub to help thousands of students, parents and teachers thrive in the challenges and changes of their transition to high school.

Sharon Collon

Supporting Your Tween & Teen With ADHD

Sharon is an ADHD Coach, consultant and parenting expert. She provides life changing practical strategies, systems and support for families with ADHD. Through  'The Functional Family', Sharon has assisted over 35,000 families and individuals with ADHD.

Justine Lamont

Busting The Perfect
Parent Myth

Justine is a parent, speaker, parenting coach and founder of Good To Great Parenting. She helps parents see themselves as the uniquely placed experts on their own children, and gives them tools to advocate for their child at home, school and in life.

Steve Biddulph

Helping Your Anxious Teen Find Their Way

Steve Biddulph AM was voted Australian Father of the Year in 2000 and a Member of the Order of Australia for his work in adolescent mental health.
His books, 'Wild Creature Mind', 'The Secret of Happy Children', 'Raising Boys', & 'Raising Girls' are in 6 MILLION homes and 31 languages and have influenced the way we look at childhood.

Do You Want To Connect With Your Teen And Help Them With Everything They're Dealing With As A Teenager?

What our speakers will help you with in the summit

Strong Relationships

Nurturing the mother-son relationship

Building connected relationships

Fostering trust & belonging

Managing challenging behaviours

Parenting through big  life challenges

Navigating tween friendships

Communicating with your teen


Wellbeing

Navigating drugs and alcohol in 2024

Understanding the teenage brain

Creating resilience in our families

How to have tough conversations

School anxiety & school avoidance

Helping teens cope with change

Nurturing our quiet tweens and teens


Independence & Resilience

Keeping our children safe online

How to study smart

Learning to learn: a superpower

Overcoming limiting beliefs

Parenting with less guilt and comparison

Teens advocating for themselves

Helping teens be responsible and accountable

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