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2025 CONFERENCE FOR PARENTS AND CARERS
Join us for our special anniversary conference for all NSW/ACT parents and carers with children in Catholic schools.
Celebrating 30 years of the Council of Catholic School Parents NSW/ACT and 20 years of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee!
Listen to expert parenting presenters talk about consent and respectful relationships, cybersafety, building your child’s resilience,
sleep, managing anxiety, screens and brain development, and supporting your child’s learning at home and at school.
THIS CONFERENCE WILL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO PARENT IN THIS COMPLEX AGE OF TECHNOLOGY.
It’s a value-packed day of connection and collaboration where our expert presenters will support you to parent bravely in a modern world.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN ADULTS ONLY EVENT AND IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN TO ATTEND.
WE CANNOT ACCOMMODATE OR CATER FOR CHILDREN ON THE DAY.
This is a chance for you to spend time with other parents without the kids around.
SUPPORTING FAMILIES:
Working together in a modern world
Saturday 25 October 2025
8.30am – 3.30pm
Novotel Parramatta, 350 Church Street, Parramatta
$30 per person
Thirty dollars to celebrate thirty years!
A conference for parents and carers of children in Catholic schools
Hosted by the Council of Catholic School Parents NSW/ACT
LISTEN AND LEARN
CONNECT AND COLLABORATE
EAT AND RELAX
Program
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8.00am |
Registration |
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8.30am |
Welcome to Country and Prayer |
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9.00am |
Keynote Speaker |
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10.00am |
Morning Tea and Stallholders |
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10.30am |
Keynote Speaker |
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11.45am – 12.45pm |
Presenters (choose 1) |
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1.00pm |
Lunch |
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2.00pm |
Keynote Speaker |
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3.00pm |
The Wrap-Up and Lucky Door Prizes |
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3.20pm |
Closing Prayer |
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3.30pm |
Close |
Keynote Speakers: What a Line-Up!
Dr Justin Coulson
About Justin: Over the past decade, Dr Justin Coulson has helped innumerable families with his nine books about raising children, his hundreds of media appearances. Dr Justin earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Wollongong and is now one of Australia’s most trusted parenting experts
Dr Justin is the co-host and parenting expert on Channel 9’s Parental Guidance, the founder of happyfamilies.com.au.
With his wife, Kylie, Dr Justin co-hosts Australia’s number one parenting podcast, The Happy Families Podcast. They have been married since the late 1990s and are the parents of six children and one grandchild – all girls!
Michelle Mitchell
About Michelle Mitchell: Michelle Mitchell is an author and speaker, sought after for her compassionate and grounded advice for parenting tweens and teens. She began as a classroom teach but soon found a special interest in wellbeing. In 2000 she left teaching to establish a health promotion charity and psychology clinic which delivered life skills programs and psychological services to thousands of young people and their families each year. Today she uses her experience to write and speak in schools, community events and through media. The core of her work is helping parents be the trusted, leadership presence that their growing kids need.
Daniel Principe
About Daniel Principe: Daniel is a passionate youth advocate and educator. Daniel encourages young people to recognise and resist distorted attitudes towards bodies, relationships and sex. He invites his audiences to instead aspire to healthy relationships built on mutual respect and empathy.
Having presented to tens of thousands of young people in every Australian state and territory, Daniel is no stranger to the complex challenges that our distracted digital world presents in adolescence. Toxic influencers. Limiting stereotypes. The objectification of women and girls. Unrealistic expectations fuelled by porn culture. Harmful messages like these bombard today’s youth through social media, advertising, online content and the culture around them.
Daniel is a board member of the DART Institute, an ambassador for the Women’s Resilience Centre and an ambassador for the national campaign Consent Can’t Wait. He was recently a nominee for the 2025 NSW Australian of the Year.
Our 2025 parenting expo is a chance for parents and carers to gather, eat, learn and connect
Come and enjoy listening to our range of professional presenters and expert speakers talk about the hot topics that families face today such as sleep, screens and brain development, managing kids’ anxiety, cybersecurity and more!
We’ll also have presenter sessions and stallholders with resources and information to share that will help you and your family.
Join us for the day to upskill your parenting, know you’re not alone when it comes to family challenges and step into a supported space to
bravely parent your child or young person.