CLASSROOM 5.0
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
Season 2, Episode 1: Michael Ellis
CLASSROOM 5.0
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
SEASON 2
Episode 1: Michael Ellis
Identity, connection, and belonging
Why social and emotional learning must take priority in the future of learning.
In a world that now understands the urgency of addressing mental health and makes space for conscious conversations, why are so many young people, and adults, still slipping through the cracks?
In this conversation, Michael Ellis, Head of People and Culture at Riparide, shares his own journey, alongside insights and practical strategies that can help you support your own healing and growth, and better develop social and emotional skills, positive identities and healthy relationships in your children.
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about Michael, AKA 'Mikey', Ellis
Michael Ellis supports leaders and teams to experience soul-fulfilling experiences at work, and in life. A born educator, his early career saw him contribute to positive youth development through teaching and wellbeing roles with the Department of Education and St Peter’s Lutheran College, and as an expedition leader with Antipodeans Abroad, where he led 10 trips across 12 years to developing countries with groups of young Australians, to participate in community development projects and develop their own leadership capabilities.
Michael’s contribution to creating more conscious cultures has benefited companies including Vinomofo, Koala, Pragmatic Thinking and Good Empire and most recently, Riparide. A writer, speaker, and event co-ordinator, Michael, affectionately known as ‘Mikey’, can be found sharing his passion for food, travel, people and culture, and all the good things in life for companies including the Lonely Planet, Culture Amp, and The Serenity Collective, as well as for his personal initiatives including The Conscious Culture Collective, and as host of his podcast ‘A Satisfied Mind’.
Find him via LinkedIn, Instagram, and via his website mikeyellis.com
“As men, we have to take responsibility for ourselves and we have to support each other. So for me, the question is how can we create spaces for men to process these emotions and these issues?’
~ MICHAEL ELLIS
Keen to take a deeper dive?
Find links to the resources and reads recommended by Mikey:
- Subscribe to Mikey’s podcast, 'A Satisfied Mind'
- Read Mikey’s post that shares current statistics around men’s mental health and explores ways we can all take action for good
- Learn more on Marc Brackett and his framework RULER - an acronym for the five skills in emotional intelligence
- Read more about Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Read more on the work of Dr Gabor Mate
To try some of the therapeutic approaches yourself:
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"You’ve got to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing. And if you don’t genuinely believe that people and the planet on which we need to survive are more important… then what are we doing?"
~ MICHAEL ELLIS
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