Parent Seminar: Dr Justin Coulson presents 'Anti-Fragile'

Learn how to build resilience in children, and equip them not just to cope with life's challenges, but to thrive because of them!

Anti-Fragile

Building Stronger Kids Through Life's Challenges

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.

How do we help children build resilience and equip them to handle life's inevitable volatility, challenges, and setbacks?

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 wellbeing 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.

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.

Justin is also the founder of happyfamilies.com.au and the author of 9 books, with his 10th book (on raising boys) soon to be published. Justin is a sought-after public speaker, appears regularly in the media and his viral content has racked up over 100 million views.

Justin earned his psychology degree at the University of Queensland and his PhD in Psychology from the University of Wollongong. He and his wife Kylie have been married since the late 1990s, are the parents of 6 daughters, and are the grandparents of one granddaughter.