Brain science has a powerful role to play in school classrooms and for lifelong learning. Empower young people to optimise their potential and to meet the future with confidence and compassion. Be uplifted by an Indigenous author’s story of learning from life.

In 1989 Pam started Tara Preschool, based on Lama ThubtenYeshe’s concept of Universal Education, now known as Essential Education (EE). EE is a secular, scientific approach to awakening compassion and wisdom. In 1996 the preschool expanded into an Elementary school, Tara Redwood School, which is the leading pilot school in the west for the…

Phillip Heath achieved a First Class Honours degree in Reformation History and taught at Trinity Grammar School Sydney and King’s School Ely (UK), before becoming Deputy Head of The William Clarke College in Kellyville, and then Headmaster of St Andrew’s Cathedral School, Sydney. The formation of the Gawura Campus for indigenous inner city…

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., is a cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and schools. A former junior high school teacher, she earned her doctorate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is the…

Gayle Kennedy is a member of the Wongaiibon clan of S/W NSW. She was Indigenous Issues Editor/Writer for Streetwize Comics from 1995-1998 and worked very closely with children and Indigenous communites in the development of all her publications. In 2005 her book of poetry ‘Koori Girl Goes Shoppin’ was shortlisted for the David Unaipon Award…