The aims of the WAGS programs

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  • Habits and Behaviours of Good Leaders
    • Focusing on the positive
    • Giving others what they need in order to learn
    • Releasing pressure in order to allow learning

  • Understanding Others (Empathy)
    • Reading personality cues
    • Non-verbal communication
    • Valuing difference
 
  • The Nature of Motivation
    • Setting goals based on knowing what you need
    • Deciphering what motivates different personality types
    • The power of persuasion over force
 
  • Emotional Toolkit
    • Self-regulation
    • Releasing pent-up feelings and dealing with grief
    • Creating safe spaces to express emotions
    • Untangling behaviours from feelings, in self and others (‘Why do I act the way I do?’)

How WAGS achieves its aims


  • ‘Active’ Experiential learning
    • Immediate feedback to social cues
    • Constant process of reflection, discussion, practice & evaluation

  • Flexible and non-confrontational learning spaces
    • Participants have active control over their engagement with activities and are encouraged to interpret frameworks creatively
    • Sessions take place on school grounds to normalise and familiarise disengaged students with their learning environment
 
  • Unique and effective ‘engagement hook’
    • Dogs can be included and utilised in a range of different activities and scenarios
    • Participants enter agreements rather than follow rules
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