Presented here are some session ideas that Mark regularly presents on. If you have some other needs that require a creative presentation, feel free to bounce ideas off Mark as he is versatile and can customize for you.

Senior School Topics

Acting with Deliberate Intention

This unique session offers students key insights into setting targets and taking very deliberate action to achieve them. It explores the areas students typically make errors and what to do instead. Students leave the session with a very clear understanding on how to set their goals and what steps to take.

Provides strategies for:

• When tasks Look Too Big
• Avoiding Wasted Time
• Distraction
• Addressing Under Performance
• Increasing Ones Sense of Direction

Use Your ‘Best Day’ Thinking

Best day thinking (BDT) is the mental strategy that Mark has used to improve the performance of a host of international athletes. Essentially BDT is a strategy for staying fully focused in very stressful, distracting or oppressive situations. Its very effective, has been tested successfully on the world stage and every student will understand it.

Provides strategies for:

• Stress in Pressure Situations
• Over Whelm
• Negative Ideas Taking Over
• Responding to Unexpected Results
• Bringing Out Your Best

Mid Year Motivation

After mid year exams just about everyone hits a wall. Mark offers students a series of strategies to refresh and refocus. This includes resetting targets, knowing how to take breaks that actually refresh and rethinking what resources we could utilize better.

Provides strategies for:

• Fatigue
• Lack of Motivation
• Feeling Disheartened
• Regaining Momentum
• Coming Back Stronger than Before

Study Strategies

Mark was a founding member of a university in New York City for talented teens, call Bard High School Early College. In 2009 the university was acknowledged by President Obama for its education innovation. This session offers students the Study Skills used there.

Provides strategies for:

• Time Management
• Gaining Momentum in Study
• Learning more Efficiently
• Listening to Feedback
• Communicating with Teachers & Tutors
• Managing Social & Sporting Interests

Life After School

Uni? Travel? Work? Small Business? Share Trading? Pro Athlete? Parent? Internship? Volunteer? What are your students moving towards and do they know how to navigate the ‘real world’? Mark shares what he has learnt from his travels around the world and offers students the inside tips that can only come form someone who has done it.

Provides strategies for:

• Choosing Between Options.
• Making Unique Careers Happen
• Doing Great Interviews
• Having a Game Plan
• Getting Family to Support Your Ideas.

The mature male & the mature female

With so many poor role models available, the modern teen can use destructive behavior thinking it will have them successful in their peer group. This session defines the characteristics of awesome men and women and offers students a vision of what to grow into and why. Some how Mark takes the most sensitive topics and makes them easy to discuss and simple to understand.

Offers healthy guidance on smart choices in:

• Relating to the Opposite Sex
• Being Treated well in Relationships
• Reducing Risk at Parties
• Developing into a mature adult

Middle School Topics

Equipped for Life

This session looks at how young people establish their opinions of themselves and what they can do to grow outside the present way they see their limits and identity. This session makes a strong impact in areas of self esteem and participation in opportunities.

Provides strategies for:

• Building Self Esteem & Confidence
• Taking control of Negative Self Talk
• Developing Resilience
• Knowing when & how to say ‘No’
• Setting Goals

Culture Shock

This session is designed to change the culture of a year level. It looks at the social rules that peers create for themselves and inspires students to lead each other to behaviors which will help them achieve their goals. You’ll see changes the next day!

Provides strategies for:

• Recognizing Destructive Behavior & Decisions
• Moving away from ‘The Crowd’
• Choosing a Personal Direction
• Leading Peers
• Disempowering Negative Behavior
• Backing Ones Own Ability & Contribution