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Connecting Minds: Unlocking the Potential

A landmark event in the 2006 conference calendar

Looking for a conference with a difference? Then get ready to participate in this timely and significant experience. The Connecting Minds Conference is DIFFERENT:

• Firstly, it's all about UNDERSTANDING and WELCOMING difference.

• It's about minimising the negative IMPACT that difference can have when understanding is not in place.

• An AUDIENCE with a difference….educators, medical practitioners, allied health professionals, parents - all coming together to learn, teach, share and grow about understanding DIFFERENCE.

• RESEARCH with a difference - the very latest in how the mind works.

• It's about access to renowned international speakers Dr Mel Levine, and Dr Mel Ainscow. Dr Levine is a regular presenter on the Oprah Winfrey Show and famous for his Developing Minds program as well as his book A Mind at a Time. Dr Ainscow is well known in over 80 countries for his work exporing connections betweeninclusion, teacher development and school improvement

• This is Dr Levine's first visit to Australia - an event long awaited by educators and the medical fraternity. Dr Ainscow is a regular visitor to Australia and advisor to several education systems.

CONNECTING MINDS - UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL is about an EXCITING TWIST for an event that will have a BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER factor that aims to ensure this is not just a one-off three-day boost, but a chance to work at sustaining the learning's into the future and spreading the influence wider.