Gilson College

Parent Seminar

Parent Seminar: Dr Justin Coulson presents 'Anti-Fragile'
24th March | 6.30 pm

If you're a parent looking for real-world strategies and tools to support your children, build their resilience, and ready them for a strong future, we invite you to our upcoming workshop by Dr Justin Coulson.

Dedicated to helping families thrive through his research-backed and hard-won wisdom, Dr Justin Coulson is a leading voice in parenting in Australia. Justin is the co-host and parenting expert on Channel Nine's Parental Guidance and his Happy Families podcast, which he co-hosts with his wife Kylie, is the most downloaded parenting podcast in Australia.

In Anti-Fragile, a presentation on building resilience in children, Dr Justin Coulson challenges the idea that childhood should be free from stress and struggle. He argues that challenges are essential for growth and that parents can empower their children by allowing them to experience developmentally appropriate adversity while providing the right kind of support to help them overcome it.

In this presentation, Dr Coulson will explore:

  • What resilience truly means and why it matters
  • Why resilience is declining in our screen-focused world
  • Why risky play and face-to-face connections support life skills and resilience
  • How the current resilience deficit damages our children's present well-being and future adult life
  • Practical strategies to reverse this trend by helping your child forge a strong sense of identity, develop genuine competence, and build lasting hope

Anti-Fragile presents Dr Coulson's groundbreaking approach to building resilience in children, equipping them not just to cope with life's challenges, but to thrive because of them.

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