Dr. Helen Street (Contextual Wellbeing) Professional Development

Dr. Helen Street offers professional development in Contextual Wellbeing, a research-informed framework for creating positive school environments that support the genuine flourishing of both students and staff. As the founder of the Positive Schools Initiative — which has worked with over 26,000 educators from more than 6,000 schools across Australia and 15 other countries since 2008 — Dr. Street brings a wealth of experience in translating wellbeing research into practical, whole-school approaches that address the systemic conditions shaping how people feel and function in educational settings. Contextual Wellbeing moves beyond individual resilience programmes to focus on the environmental and relational factors that most powerfully influence wellbeing in schools. Dr. Street's model, developed through her PhD in applied social psychology and over two decades of research, consulting, and school-based work, emphasises that sustainable wellbeing requires attention to context — the quality of relationships, the sense of belonging, the degree of autonomy, and the meaningfulness of the work people do. Her international best-selling book, Contextual Wellbeing: Creating Positive Schools from the Inside Out, provides the theoretical and practical foundation for this approach, which is now being implemented in schools across more than twenty countries on four continents. Dr. Street's professional development offerings include keynote presentations, workshops, and consultancy services tailored to individual schools and systems. For schools seeking a wellbeing approach that goes deeper than surface-level programmes to genuinely transform school culture and conditions, Dr. Street's Contextual Wellbeing framework offers a research-grounded, practically tested pathway to creating schools where everyone can thrive.