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• Posted News & Upcoming Events to Sue Roffey Associates
  Sue's book Positive Relationships is available now in paperback, and the price has been reduced significantly at Gleebooks.com.au and at Amazon.co.uk - read the 5 star reviews there!Click on "Continue reading ..." below for a full list of upcoming courses and...
• Posted Sue Roffey to Sue Roffey Associates
  Working to support children, promote social and emotional learning, develop pro-social behaviour, increase social inclusion and develop relational values in education and the wider community. Sue is an educational psychologist, academic and author specialising in social, emotional and behavioural issues. She...
• Posted Stuck on Stickers? to Sue's Blog
  When children behave in positive ways, do they feel good about this because they see themselves as developing strengths, skills and positive qualities and perhaps doing something worthwhile - or because they get a sticker or certificate? Dr. Helen...
• Posted Aboriginal Girls Circle: Learning together to Sue's Blog
  From sheer exhaustion on Sunday to exhilaration by Tuesday evening. The difference made by fifteen amazing, inspirational, creative, insightful young Aboriginal women with the on-going support of staff in Delroy School in Dubbo, local Elders and NAPCAN. Students (from Years...
• Posted Sue's Blog to Sue Roffey Associates
  Follow Sue's thoughts about the world and events here. You can also follow her on Twitter @SueRoffey. Some other interesting stuff gets posted at Wellbeing Australia: http://www.wellbeingaustralia.com.au/wba/...
• Posted Associates: Bill Hansberry & Ali Palmer to Sue Roffey Associates
  Bill Hansberry is based in Adelaide. SA. He is a teacher, counsellor and change agent for schools. Much of his work is in the field of restorative practices. More information about Bill and testimonials to his work can be found here. Bill...
• Posted Philosophy & Practice to Sue Roffey Associates
  The following philosophy underpins the approaches that are used in training, consultancy and research activities undertaken by Sue Roffey Associates....
• Posted Training and Professional Development to Sue Roffey Associates
  SRA provides training on many aspects of behaviour, school and student wellbeing, school leadership and related matters, including open-booking courses for the British Psychological Society Learning Centre and for the NSW Association of Independent Schools. For details of forthcoming courses, go to the News...
• Posted Publications - including some free sample chapters ... to Sue Roffey Associates
  Changing Behaviour in Schools: Promoting Relationships and Wellbeing and the revised edition of the New Teachers Survival Guide to Behaviour are available from Sage in the UK and Footprint Books in Australia. You can read some reviews of Changing Behaviour here. Positive Relationships: Evidence...
• Posted Diary of Past Events to Sue Roffey Associates
  A quick summary of past work by Sue Roffey Associates....
• Posted Grace to Sue's Blog
  Grace has many meanings, some religious and related to God's forgiveness; others elicit images of fluid physical movement. One definition is about a quality of character, defined in my dictionary as 'courteous goodwill.' It is this latter meaning I...
• Posted Head in the Snow? Where is the outcry on climate change? to Sue's Blog
  The UK is experiencing its longest and coldest winter for years. Since February 1st the temperature has barely risen above freezing. The snow is shutting roads and schools, bringing down power lines and preventing people going to work. It...
• Posted Solitude and loneliness to Sue's Blog
  My mum has always found it hard to be alone and now as she is in her fading weeks I sit holding her hand and reflect on how this has impacted on her life. She has appeared to only value...
• Posted Think and be happy newsletter (extract) to Sue Roffey Associates
  Featured Speaker:POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH DR SUE ROFFEYRelationships are a highly significant part of our world and make a great difference to how we see ourselves and others, our sense of meaning and purpose, our engagement, and the positive feelings we...
• Posted Will the rich really run away from higher tax? And if so, does it matter? to David Roffey
  Whenever high taxes on the super-rich are up for discussion, we frequently hear the argument (usually from the super-rich or their friends!) that this will result in a devastating loss of talent and investment as these individuals flee the country....
• Posted Growing Great Schools to Growing Great Schools
• Posted What are Oil Reserves? to David Roffey
  What are oil reserves? Nobody knows. OPEC Rules divi up the production cap according to stated reserves, so when they adopted that rule, declared reserves jumped without any new oil finds, and no-one ever accepts that their reserves have been...
• Posted Safe energy to David Roffey
  A friend recommended reading an opinion piece on the UK's shambolic policy on nuclear energy. I stopped reading after "The facts on nuclear are pretty clear. It is far and away the safest means of generating a given amount of electrical...
• Posted Will the oil price trigger the long-predicted double dip? to David Roffey
  Back in March 2008, I put down my prediction that later that year the oil price would reach $145  - from the $110 it had reached then - and bring an end to world economic growth. Now we're back at $90, will...
• Posted September oil and other GFC nuggets to David Roffey
  A quarter or two where the GDP manages a dribble of growth isn't "out of recession". If I'm right about the likely oil price reaction to any sustained return to growth, we possibly never will be....
• Posted No earnings, no price to David Roffey
  "If you give me $1, I promise to give you 15¢". The SMH can't understand why people aren't taking up this outstanding offer. I think I can ......
• Posted Can algae save the world? to David Roffey
  Yet another story today about how genetically engineered algae can produce much more crude oil per acre than biofuels. But how do the numbers stack up?...
• Posted Climate Science for Dummies to David Roffey
  If the mainstream science is wrong, we need to reduce GHG emissions even more than is currently planned. Simple really. Now let's get on with it....
• Posted More oil price speculation to David Roffey
  Back in February, I wrote that "oil prices will continue to rise until they have suppressed demand back to match supply", and forecast a headline barrel price of $120 in June and $145 at year end. Now it's June and $139.69,...
• Posted Is it politically possible to avert dangerous climate change? to David Roffey
  The Stockholm Network's Carbon Scenarios describe 3 plausible futures resulting from 3 different approaches to climate policy at the international level. Worryingly, none of the scenarios provides a policy which achieves climate 'success' as defined by the UK, EU and...
• Posted "Dear Mr Rudd" - nothing needed on Welfare or Education? to David Roffey
  Robert Manne's collection Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia covers some interesting ground, if relatively superficially (or "readable", according to the blurb). But what I find more interesting is what it doesn't cover....
• Posted Oil Dollar Euro ULP to David Roffey
  I'm interested by the claim repeated in numerous news analyses that "investors are buying oil to hedge against the sliding greenback" - it seems to me to be a tad more significant that world oil demand has exceeded world oil...
• Posted Peak Coal? to David Roffey
  "The perception that coal is the fossil fuel of last resort may well be an illusion." Energy Watch. Professor David Rutledge of CalTech in a lecture last October, suggests that world coal reserves are grossly overstated and could be substantially exhausted this...
• Posted Australia turns up the heat on climate change? to David Roffey
  "Australians should be proud of what we are achieving at home to meet the climate change challenge" Alexander Downer in the Age this morning. Is he right? UPDATE: CSIRO and BoM report on the future for Australia...
• Posted Oil Prices: where now? to David Roffey
  On Webdiary we've gone round the the Peak Oil loop more than a few times over the last few years (eg here). A new point of interest has arisen over this week: for the first time in the last few...