What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Dr Hayley Watson is a clinical psychologist, researcher, lecturer, and program developer who is passionate about helping people find and cultivate their inner potential and inherent value. Her most recent project is a cutting-edge video-based mental health curriculum for middle and high schools being rolled out across Australia, Canada, and the US: Open Parachute Schools. In this, the first conversation of three, she speaks about how she got to where she is today, her work with Open Parachute Schools, and touches on intergenerational trauma.

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