Dr. Helen Street
Challenging the Status Quo of Mental Health
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Dr Helen Street is an internationally acclaimed educational consultant with an extensive background in social psychology. She is the founder of Positive Schools and Contextual Wellbeing, a consultant to schools worldwide, a best-selling author and an honorary fellow at The University of Western Australia.
Helen is known as a pioneer in the development and support of long-term learning engagement and wellbeing through the development of whole school systemic change and development. Her first book ‘Standing Without Shoes’ includes a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Her fourth book, ‘Contextual Wellbeing’ has become an international best-seller in education.
Helen co-founded Positive Schools with Neil Porter, including the highly respected Positive Schools conference series, Positive Schools Online and consultancy services supporting Contextual Wellbeing in schools. Helen has helped schools develop Contextual Wellbeing across Australia, SE Asia, Canada and the UK. In so doing she has helped educators to embed wellbeing development in the development of their unique contexts, with the aim to support self-determination, belonging and engagement in all members of the school community.
In recent years, it has come to Helen’s attention that, despite positive mental health being a growing topic of consideration, many of us remain unsure about how we might build either wellbeing or resilience effectively and meaningfully. Her fifth book ‘The Impossible Question of Living Well’ launched in May 2024. In this new book, Helen considers wellbeing as an ability to develop healthy connections; and in so doing, she presents resilience as our ability to navigate dis-connect and change.
Helen lives in Western Australia with Neil, their three daughters and their very spoilt cavoodle, Barney.
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Helen's [work] is imbued with huge amounts of wisdom and personal honesty... I learned much from Helen Street's words.
Dr. Helen Street offers gems of wisdom on living with impermanence in all its forms: growth, change, loss, recovery, and growth again... [her work] goes straight from the author’s heart to the reader’s, with gifts that are many and deep.
Are you open to examining the established practices in your school in order to foster wellbeing, not as an ‘add on’, but as the very core of everything you believe and do? When we first discovered ‘Contextual Wellbeing’ by Helen Street, we recognised the work required to build a cohesive culture in which students and teachers could flourish.
Are you open to examining the established practices in your school in order to foster wellbeing, not as an ‘add on’, but as the very core of everything you believe and do? When we first discovered ‘Contextual Wellbeing’ by Helen Street, we recognised the work required to build a cohesive culture in which students and teachers could flourish.
Fantastic presentation that has consolidated some excellent simple, practical tools for me to implement into my life, which will effectively improve my quality of life at home and work.
