DR JODI’S WORKED WITH
Jodi’s keynote conference presentations, parent seminars and professional development workshops are interactive, research-based and hope-inducing experiences. From a 60-minute keynote to a full-day workshop,
Jodi carefully tailors her presentations to meet the needs of each client and audience.
powerful new ideas and strategies
for parents and mental health professionals, in educational settings supporting parents, teachers and educational leaders, for city councils, for amateur to elite athletes, for health and wellbeing professionals, for professionals within corporations and for organisations supporting parents and carers of children on the autism spectrum.
Her impressive academic and professional achievements in the wellbeing, science and educational landscapes blend seamlessly with her innate caring nature, resulting in impactful, memorable audience experiences.
She creates a safe place for people to meet, learn, share and leave with proven strategies that not only deliver results – but also give hope. It is common for participants to leave feeling like an “old-friend” of Jodi’s, flocking to her for one last chat or an effusive thank you.
Parent Education
Moving kids and teens from anxiety to resilience
Anxiety among children and adolescents is at an all-time high in the wake of the pandemic. Children from pre-school age through to year 12 are experiencing the challenges that go hand-in-hand with anxiety including an inability to concentrate, changes to behaviour, worry, overwhelming physical sensations and big feelings. As this happens, children and teens pull back from, or completely avoid so much of what makes life meaningful, enriching and fun; including school. Thankfully, parents are in the position of most influence to help their children understand what lies at the heart of anxiety, recognise anxiety when it shows up and put strategies in place to help dial anxiety down; seeking professional help when needed. Whether children are experiencing the kind of anxiety that comes with being human, or anxiety that's getting in the way of school or life, this presentation empowers parents with understanding, practical skills and the confidence to respond in impactful ways when anxiety shows up.
Parent Education
Expanding kids' and teens' anxiety coping toolkit
Anxiety impacts how children and teens feel, what they think, and what they do next; which often means getting caught up in a struggle with anxiety doing anything and everything to make it stop. This presentation has been carefully designed to build on 'Moving kids and teens from anxiety to resilience', deepening parents' and carers' understanding of anxiety and expanding their toolkit of strategies to not only help their children and teens cope, but thrive. Now, and over their lifetime. In our time together, parents and carers learn how to help their children and teens think about anxiety differently, the impact of worry, rumination and catastrophic thinking on how anxious kids feel and the choices they make, and practical ways to teach children and teens to manage worry and move forward, embracing all life has to offer them.
Parent Education
Bend without Breaking: Building Resilient brains in kids and teens
There's been a lot of attention on resilience over many years, and for good reason. The drawn-out nature of the pandemic and the myriad of challenges children and teens experienced as a result, in addition to other challenges that come with returning to the classroom after absence, have stretched even the most resilient among kids and teens. Adversity and challenge build resilience when resilience is understood, the right frameworks are in place, and when parents and teachers know what genuinely contributes to building it. They're important skills in the wake of a global pandemic, and over a lifetime.
Professional Development for Educators
Boosting teachers' mental health and happiness
Although children are back at school engaging in their learning and connecting with their friends, the pandemic continues to seriously impact the demands, expectations, stress levels, mental health and wellbeing of educators. The ripple effect of this overwhelm ebbs well beyond the school grounds. Educator wellbeing is critical for the individual, their family and the students and colleagues they connect and work with. More than ever before teachers and other school staff need ideas and insights that, when practiced, have a powerful impact on day-to-day fulfilment and wellbeing as a whole.
Professional Development for Educators
Moving kids and teens from anxiety to resilience
Child and adolescent anxiety have doubled as a result of the pandemic. In addition to reducing day-to-day quality of life, anxiety impacts engagement, learning, connection and enjoyment in, and out of, the classroom. Staff, or ‘accidental counsellors’, are increasingly called upon to support anxious students and their families, often while managing their own elevated stress and anxiety. This is a challenging role made harder without a clear understanding of anxiety, how to settle an anxious nervous system and how, and when, to re-engage students in classroom activities.
Senior Student Education
What is anxiety, why it's not all bad and what can i do about it?
Not only are senior students undertaking the most important years of their secondary schooling, they're doing so in a climate where rates of adolescent anxiety have doubled compared with pre-pandemic figures. Essential mental health and wellbeing learning for senior students includes understanding their nervous system, recognising and managing stress and anxiety, learning and practicing a ‘go-to’ grounding strategy, and developing a balanced approach to life. Each of these will enable senior students to cope with both the chronic and acute stressors that accompany the academic pressure and high stakes assessments of their senior years.
Corporate Presentation
Level-headed: How to make decisions under pressure
Every day, business leaders are required to make sound and speedy decisions to generate revenue, to look after employee wellbeing and to further brands. Some decisions are easy to make. Others are difficult and complex and can, if not handled correctly, lead to procrastination and overwhelm. In this presentation, Dr Jodi Richardson will explore how today’s leaders can make the great decisions, every time they are called to.
Corporate Presentation
Resilience: so much more than bouncing back
Adversity both tests and shapes us; seldom do we return to who we were. With each challenge comes a choice; turn away, mark time or navigate the uncertainty with authenticity, intelligence and flexibility. In this presentation Dr Jodi Richardson explores what it really means to be resilient and shares the foundations, thinking skills and practices that foster resilience and inspire hope in the face of life’s curve balls.
Delegate feedback
2019 Mental Health in Schools Conference
“Extremely useful as a teacher and parent.”
“Best presenter.”
“Lots of strategies to support counselling in schools!”
MEDIA
Jodi is a regular media commentator in the anxiety, parenting and wellbeing space.
Jodi has shared her insights and expertise via ABC TV News Breakfast, the TODAY Show, Sunrise, The Morning Show, Studio 10, Weekend Today, Mamamia, ABC Radio, ABC RN Life Matters, Radio New Zealand and in The Age, Herald Sun, Sydney Morning Herald, New Idea, Who Magazine, Mindful Parenting and more.