Teaching Brilliant Brains – Applied Understanding of ADHD & Autism in the Classroom Perth

9.30am - 3.30pm - Registration from 9.00am Experiential Full-Day Practical Pedagogy Immersion A bold, emotionally engaging and deeply practical full-day professional learning experience designed for educators who want to move beyond behaviour charts, compliance and overwhelm — and toward genuine understanding, connection and meaningful change. Created for both primary and secondary educators, this immersive training experience equips teachers with practical, immediately usable, neuroaffirming strategies to better understand, support and empower neurodivergent learners in real classrooms. Far beyond traditional “sit and get” professional development, Teaching Brilliant Brains blends lived experience, neuroscience, practical pedagogy, humour, storytelling, emotional engagement and hands-on strategies that teachers can implement immediately. Led by Tony Vallance — award-winning educator, therapist, ADHDer and former “THAT ADHD kid” who struggled in class — this workshop provides an authentic, deeply human perspective on what genuinely helps neurodivergent students thrive. Teachers will leave not just with strategies, but with a renewed lens for understanding the children who need us most. Participants will develop practical understanding and strategies to support: Throughout the day, educators will explore: This is not another behaviour management workshop. Teaching Brilliant Brains is an experiential, emotionally intelligent and hands-on professional learning immersion that educators will still be talking about weeks later — because when teachers truly understand neurodivergent learners, classrooms change. Students change. And teachers leave feeling more hopeful, capable and equipped to make a difference. If you missed Tony in Term 2 here is what a few of the participants thought: “This was fab! As a person with ADHD i have done lots of adhd training and sessions but this was by far the best! really good at re framing and explaining students need.” “It was the best PD I have ever attended. Tony was very engaging!” “This has been the best PD I have ever attended. As an ADHD’er myself (undiagnosed), the mother of an ADHD’er 21 yr old with some serious addictions and now teaching for the past few years in the VM space with ADHD students. I have over 25 years of policing and only recently a teacher and feel so privileged that I get to have an impact on these young people. So grateful Tony for the work you do” “Great to have a neurodivergent presenter, talking about what works. Engaging, informative, practical that will have an immediate impact on my understanding and ability to work with people that have ADHD” An award-winning Secondary School Teacher, Counsellor, and Therapeutic Play Specialist, Tony is known for presentations that are emotionally charged, deeply practical and impossible to forget. His sessions blend neuroscience, storytelling, humour, music, vulnerability and hands-on strategies to create professional learning that tea