Peak Experiences
Student Workshops
Interactive. Engaging. Impactful.
Our expert facilitators guide students through highly interactive workshops that encourage them to think differently, question, collaborate and problem solve.
Learning skills such as resilience, compassion and critical thinking at school gives young Australians a greater sense of their own responsibility as individuals and as part of society, and builds a better future for us all.
Face-to-Face or Online
Face-to-Face
Interactive and engaging ‘Peak Experiences’ run in-person by one of our expert facilitators.
Timing: 2 hours
Student count: Up to 60 per workshop
Online
Flexible learning using a combination of online self-directed learning and facilitated debrief sessions.
Timing: 2 hours (can be split over mutliple sessions)
Student count: Up to 60 per workshop
Our Workshops
Identity & Purpose
Students explore the different ways in which people categorise others and how this can lead to the creation of unfair biases based on stereotypes and prejudices.
Students build the skills needed:
- To better empathise with others
- To respond in safe and inclusive ways to messages aimed at dividing people
Social Progress
In this workshop, through a UN-style simulation, students explore how their own decisions to balance short-term self-interest and long-term collective interest affect and shape the group outcome.
Students build the skills needed:
- Deepen their ethical understanding of collaboration and decision-making
- Develop their personal and social capability to take positive action to make their communities fairer places for all
Just Society
Students explore how different levels of access to resources, opportunities and rights impacts themselves and others.
Students build the skills needed to:
- Better empathise with others
- Build their personal and social capability to take positive action to make their communities fairer places for all
Independent Thinking
In this workshop, students explore some of the techniques used in modern media to manipulate the way we think and act.
Students build the skills needed to:
- Enhance their ability to use critical and creative thinking
- Build their personal and social capability to recognise messages aimed at dividing people
Better Self
In this workshop, students explore their own ethical decision-making profile and discover how this knowledge can help them work more effectively with others.
Students build the skills needed to:
- Deepen their understanding of ethical concepts and issues
- Build their personal and social capability to work collaboratively
Why High Resolves?
15+ years experience
We reached over 200,000 Aussie kids through our programs over the past 15+ years.
Local context
We work with schools to ensure that our workshops complement existing projects and relevant units of work.
Teacher Professional Development
Our Teacher PD sessions give educators all the knowledge and information they need to support their students.
Based on learning science
Every part of the High Resolves program is backed by the latest insights in learning science.
Follow-up resources
We provide comprehensive, ready-to-use resources for teachers to extend the learnings from our workshops in the classroom.
Expert facilitators
Our facilitators are the ones who make the magic. They are kind, experienced, engaging and genuinely love what they do!
