PSYCHOLOGIST / BULLYING EXPERT

Evelyn M. Field FAPS

Speaker, psychologist, media personality, best-selling author

School and Workplace  Bullying /Social Resilience/Parenting skills

People who need people are the luckiest people in the world, but it isn’t easy. Some people can’t connect or relate in a friendly, respectful manner, others can’t protect themselves from mean, difficult or nasty people. Social and emotional resilience are essential skills for today’s society. Effective social survival skills empower people to relate to one another and deal with difficult relationships.
Evelyn M. Field FAPS is an experienced psychologist, professional speaker, best- selling author and popular television psychologist. She has spoken in Australia and overseas.
Evelyn’s practical, proven social survival skills model has grown from her personal and professional experience.

• Her educational, ethical and entertaining presentations provide unique learning opportunities.
• She presents to adolescents, parents, teachers, health professionals and organizations.
• She uses a variety of techniques eg cases, cartoons, magic, to help participants
• She adjusts the seminars to participants’ requirements.

She has been appointed a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society because of her expertise and is one of their media spokespersons. She is a regular with Channel Seven and has done over 600 media interviews, eg "Today show", " Good Morning Australia", “A Current Affair”,  “Seven thirty Report”, “Today Tonight Show”.

 ‘Bully Busting’ (Finch 1999) sold over 23,000 copies (also in Italian, Croatian and Arabic. ‘Bully Blocking’ a bestseller, published in Australia (Finch 2007) and USA & UK (Jessica Kingsley 2007) soon in Czechoslovakian and Korean. Evelyn is currently completing her much requested book on workplace bullying.

 Deal with School Bullying: for parents, students and teachers

• Understand bullying- causes, injuries, legal issues and parents’ role.
• Implement a collaborative, whole school approach to reducing bullying. (Includes, policies, programs and procedures)
• Empower children to develop social resilience- ‘Secrets of Relating’.

Social Survival Skills:  for parents, students and teachers

• Learn the six  ‘Secrets of Relating’
• Develop emotional intelligence, social resilience and the ability to live and work in different social tribes.

Update your parenting skills

• Balance care, over-protection and neglect
• Develop respectful relationships
• Build reasonable boundaries
• Develop the key tools for happy families

‘My way or the highway’

• Understand workplace bullying- causes, injuries, legal implications.
• Implement a collaborative approach to reducing bullying.
• Action for targets, bullies, witnesses and managers.
• Empower everyone to become be socially resilient at work.

‘It takes a village’

• Understand the misuse and positive use of power
• Create cohesive, competent, corporate cultures
• Empower employees to relate effectively at work
• Improve productivity and performance

“Thank you for your spectacular job you did presenting yesterday.”
–Dominique McNamara DEST, National Safe Schools Week Launch.

“Your presentation was excellent and empowering,”
–Louise Connor, Victorian Secretary Media Arts Alliance.

“Thank you for presenting Empowering Relationships. It was rated “E” for excellent by all the participants, we are emboldened to continue.”
–Alan Moore, Director Performance Improvement Conferences and Seminars

“Thankyou for the wonderful session. The information was informative and helpful. There were so many terrific suggestions.”
– Trinity Grammar School

"Evelyn was rated one of the top three workshop presenters at the recent conference on bullying, November 2003 organized by the National Coalition Against Bullying."
- Andrew Chappell. Chief Administrator, Alannah and Madeleine Foundation

"Evelyn's delivery was of a high standard. Her sometime amusing performance particularly suited her audience by providing some refreshingly light moments which in no way weakened the serious messages she delivered."
- Jane Smyth and Associates, for Freehills

"Evelyn's wonderful presentation on bullying provided a solid framework for our on-going discussions and policymaking. The three hours passed quickly, due to her lively, down to earth, and jargon free approach."
- Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School

"Evelyn Field has a unique perspective on bullying behaviours from the schoolyard through to the boardroom. Evelyn speaks from the heart and engages the audience like few speakers can."
- Richard Kasperczyk, Managing Director, RTK Corporate