Solution-Building Conversations and From Hero to Host: A Smarter Way to Lead in Schools

9.30am - 3.30pm - Registration from 9.00am

All Teachers and support staff, coaches mentors & support personnel of any level.

Practical ways to reduce burnout, handle difficult conversations, and build resilience—without adding to your workload

Many educators are exhausted—not because they don’t care, but because they care deeply.

You’re supporting students in distress, managing complex behaviours, navigating tough parent conversations, and holding your team together. Over time, these conversations can feel heavy, repetitive, and draining.

This session gives you simple, structured ways to shift those conversations—so they become clearer, more productive, and far less exhausting.

Instead of carrying the emotional load, you’ll learn how to:

This is where Solution-Building Conversations come in.

A practical, strengths-based approach that helps you guide progress in others—while experiencing something equally important yourself: vicarious resilience.

“Solution-focused communication not only improves outcomes for those we support, it reduces burnout and enhances wellbeing for the practitioner.”

— Medina & Beyebach (2014); Froerer et al. (2022)

Jason will also be incorporating From Hero to Host: A Smarter Way to Lead in Schools into this session

How to lead effectively without doing everything yourself

Many leaders feel the pressure to step in, fix problems, and carry the load.

The harder you work, the more everything depends on you.

This session introduces a different way of leading—one that builds capability, trust, and shared responsibility.

Using the Host Leadership approach, you’ll learn how to:

You’re likely already doing some of this. This session helps you do it more intentionally—and with greater impact.

Jason Pascoe is a leadership consultant, coach, and facilitator specialising in Solution-Building Conversations and Host Leadership.

With over 20 years’ experience across education, health, and leadership development, Jason has worked with more than 50,000 educators and leaders across Australia and internationally. He is the Director of The Enactive Solution and Vice President of the Australasian Solution Focused Association.

Jason’s work is grounded in a simple idea: the quality of our conversations shapes the quality of our classrooms, teams, and outcomes.

In schools, this means helping educators:

His sessions are known for being highly practical, engaging, and immediately usable. Participants leave with simple tools and language they can apply straight away—in classrooms, staffrooms, and leadership conversations.

Rather than adding “one more thing,” Jason helps educators work smarter within the complexity they’re already navigating.

Drawing on Solution-Focused Practice and Host Leadership, Jason offers a clear, structured approach to:

If you’re looking for approaches that are realistic, evidence-informed, and actually work in busy school settings, these sessions are designed for you.

“It is the first P.L. in a long