Exploring controversies within schools

This session will support in reframing and getting more used to discomfort and controversy, recognising that discomfort is necessary, and identifying our own places of discomfort in everyday school interactions and learning more about why they might exist. Identify barriers to overcoming them, including internally Reflect on how to overcome them

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Mahlon is an experienced educator and EDI consultant with extensive participation in the fields of learning, professional & personal development. Prior to leaving the UK, Mahlon led two successful Humanities faculties in inner-London schools, and developed both national and cross-national curricula for initial and continuing teacher education. Since leaving the UK for Toronto in 2018, Mahlon stepped into consulting to hone his coaching skills and expertise across a range of organizational bodies. In 2021 he returned to education as the Director of EDI at an all-through Independent Girl’s focused School, making use of his ability to understand and convey differences of identity in accessible, but no less challenging ways.