Outstanding People Skills
Mark tailors all his presentations and programs to meet the needs of the particular audience. Hence, they are tailored to meet the needs of staff whether they be teaching staff, administrative or support staff, and whether they be staff of schools (Pre-school, Kindergarten, Infants, Primary - Elementary, Secondary), Colleges, Universities, Regional Offices, Support Units, or Head Office.
For example, Mark has recently delivered programs to a combined meeting of the Executive Staff of Bowral High School and Mittagong High School, Executive staff of Blakehurst tHigh School, School Support and Administrative Staff of the Western Region of NSW, the School Support and Administrative Staff Information Expo in Coffs Harbour, and the Primary Principals Conference held in Mudgee.
How to use Real Life Rehearsals® to teach any social communication skill you like — right across the curriculum!
Mark also helps teachers learn to use the advanced experiential technique is Real Life Rehearsals®. Teachers have many responsibilities and one is helping students develop a set of social communication skills such as how to:
- Say 'no' to sexual harassment;
- Resist the pressure to drink at all or refuse to drink more than a planned limit — and still look 'cool';
- Refuse the offer of a lift with a drunk driver — or anyone they don't want to go with;
- Handle a grueling job interview; and
- Avoid being involved in a sexual situation at all, how to demand safe sex and how to leave safely.
Helping students adopt these behaviours involves 2 major steps. The first step involves motivating students to adopt the desired behaviours and this is accomplished through the development of appropriate knowledge and attitudes. The second involves helping students develop the appropriate strategies and skills so they can act on those motivations. A common approach to skill development is the use of traditional role-plays. These have their place but teachers and others know their shortcomings and they deserve something better. The answer is Real Life Rehearsals®.
Mark provides presentations, workshops and demonstrations (yes, right in your classroom, on a school camp or on a retreat) on how to use Real Life Rehearsals. Mark is an experienced teacher. He has been using role-plays, behaviour rehearsals and the advanced technique Real Life Rehearsals® for over 30 years with: teenagers; teachers; parents; nurses; youth workers; police; and front-line staff of organisations such as Housing NSW.
New Resource: "Party Without Pain. The use of Real Life Rehearsals® to help teenagers control their drinking."
Party Without Pain is a straightforward, pragmatic and easy to read booklet. It's been kept to about 13,000 words because Mark knows teachers are busy. It contains: 
a rationale for why a new approach is needed; the reality of direct and indirect social pressure; why teenagers need both a set of realistic and personalised strategies and the social skills to deliver them in the real world; why traditional types of role-plays 'just don't cut it'; and the details of each of the 10 steps of Real Life Rehearsals as applied the situation of 'helping teenagers use diplomacy, assertiveness and planning to keep their drinking under control and resist the pressure to exceed their limit'.
Order form to purchase or order Party Without Pain. To learn more, send Mark an e-mail.
Mark delivers both in-house and public workshops. To find out more, contact Mark. Case Studies