Mentoring and Coaching for Education Professionals
Pastoral Carers PD
Tailor-made live and on-demand webinars (and resources), designed specifically for Pastoral Carers in Schools. Supporting you with practical insights, strategies and considerations to address the unique challenges faced in these roles (e.g. year level coordinators, heads of house, deputies and principals).
Group Mentoring - Pastoral Carers
Join our engaging and enriching group mentoring sessions tailored specifically for pastoral carers. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to connect with peers in similar roles, share valuable insights, and enhance your professional skills in a collaborative environment
Individual mentoring
We provide mentoring and coaching to school staff, particularly those in pastoral care or leadership roles. We support you to identify areas of your work to celebrate and improve on, with a particular focus on systems, processes and skill-development
Pastoral Carers Mentoring - 2026
Taking expressions of interest for 2026
- People in pastoral care leader roles (e.g. year level coordinator, head of house, deputy)
- Open to people across Australia
- Frequency: The group will meet twice each term, starting Term 1
- Duration: Each session will last for 1 hour
- Location: Meetings will be held online
- Cost: Priced as a package for the year – $80 per session x 8 sessions = $640 (+GST) for the year
- Pastoral Care Systems and Processes: Share and learn about effective systems and processes that can improve pastoral care within your community. Troubleshoot challenges within your school and identify opportunities for growth.
- Issues of Concern: Address current challenges and concerns, finding collective solutions and gaining perspectives from different pastoral settings.
- Managing Difficult Situations: Discuss strategies for handling challenging scenarios, drawing on the experience and wisdom of the group.
- Tailored Professional Learning: Receive professional development specifically tailored to the unique demands of your role as a pastoral carer.
- Cross-Collaboration: Engage in meaningful exchanges of ideas with other pastoral leaders from various systems and states, broadening your understanding and approach.
- Connection and Support: Build a network of support with others who share your role, fostering a sense of community and shared purpose.
Individual mentoring - Pastoral Carers
At ConnectEd, we offer something a little different — structured, supportive mentoring and coaching tailored specifically for school staff.
Drawing on our background in health, education and business, we’ve developed a program that helps staff reflect, reset, and refine the way they work. Since launching in late 2022, we’ve had the privilege of supporting schools and school staff across Australia
Who is this for?
Mentoring is widely embraced in the health sector, where it’s used to support both professional growth and personal development. In education, however, it’s often overlooked — despite the complex and demanding nature of school roles.
Our mentoring and coaching is designed for:
School leaders (Principals, Deputies)
Year level coordinators, house leaders and pastoral care staff
Counsellors, guidance officers and ministry team members
Wellbeing and learning support staff
…and anyone in a student support or leadership role looking for structured, meaningful professional reflection.
What do we mean by mentoring and coaching?
Our approach goes beyond supervision, management advice or informal chats. It’s not therapy, and it’s not about performance evaluations. Instead, we offer a supportive space to:
Reflect on your work
Talk through challenges or tricky decisions
Identify systems, approaches or processes that need refining
Find proactive, realistic next steps
We aim to help you understand what’s working, what’s not, and how you can adjust your approach to make your work easier and more effective. If personal wellbeing is your primary concern, we’ll help you connect with someone who’s best placed to support you with that. Please note, this is not therapy, nor is it a health service, and it is not intended to replace specific support for you. Where issues relating to your wellbeing are the primary concern, we will support you to connect with someone else who can more specifically support you with this.
What does it look like in practice?
We tailor the process to suit your school or team. We are happy to meet in person (if local to Brisbane) or online via Zoom and different options include:
Group mentoring (1hr): For 2–10 staff in similar roles. A shared space for reflection, strategy and collaborative problem-solving.
Individual mentoring (1hr): A confidential one-on-one session to explore your work and goals more deeply.
Combination model: A mix of group and individual mentoring — for example, one group session each term, plus one individual session per person.
Mentoring topics vary based on your needs. Some common focus areas include:
Reviewing students-of-concern and refining pastoral care processes
Building more effective systems for supporting staff
Strengthening your approach to complex student or team dynamics
How much does it cost
See the fees here
A reminder this is not therapy, nor a health service, and it is not intended to replace specific support for your mental health and wellbeing