Frequently Asked Questions

About Our Programs

  • Five program areas, all delivered in your school:

    • Upper Primary (Years 5–6): foundational lessons in respectful relationships and digital citizenship, or cohort formation days.

    • Middle Years (Years 7–9): respectful relationship programs (including online safety) and cohort formation / retreat days, wellbeing days.

    • Senior Years (Years 10–12): advanced leadership formation, student leadership development, senior retreats, respectful relationships, and consent education.

    • Staff and Parent Sessions: bespoke workshops that mirror student content and provide adults with facilitation tools.

    • Teachers: professional development programs on behaviour management, classroom management, student engagement, relational pedagogy and stepping into leadership.

  • All programs are delivered by our director, Ben Russell. Ben is a fully registered teacher with a Master of Education (Leadership) and more than 15 years in school leadership roles across pastoral care, wellbeing and student formation. Schools deal with the same person from first phone call to program delivery. See more here

  • Respectful Relationships Education teaches students the knowledge and skills for healthy, respectful relationships: covering consent, communication, online behaviour and gender-based attitudes. It's now an expectation of every Australian state's curriculum. Our strengths-based RRE programs run from Years 5–12 and are delivered in schools across Australia. See more about our programs here

Booking, Costs & Logistics

  • Pricing depends on program length, year-level size and location: a single workshop costs less than a term-long leadership program.

    We quote transparently up front, with travel itemised for schools outside South East Queensland, and there are no hidden extras.

    Call Ben on 0422 066 281 for a quote within 24 hours.

    We know teacher time is precious, and we don’t want to waste time in the costing phase, to assist with this and as a general idea of pricing:

    • Minimum investment for any session: $1650+GST

    • Half-day / Full-day programs: per person rate of $16 / $22 per person + GST (minimum spends apply)

    • Large group sizes over 250PAX or multiple group / cohorts within the one day: daily price charged.

  • Many repeat schools often book a year in advance, and their date is held to honour agreements. As such, the earlier the better.

    Depending on availability, as a guide a terms notice allows calendar alignment. Start-of-year leadership inductions and retreat season fill first, if you have a date in mind, it costs nothing to hold it while we shape the program. Deposits secure the date.

  • Programs flex from a single 60-90 minute workshop, half-day experiences, to full days, multi-day camps and multi-visit series across a term or year.

    We work with everything from a single class on rotation to a full year level: the format is agreed with you based on what you want the day to achieve.

  • Very little: a suitable space (hall or large classroom), basic AV, and staff supervision per your school's policy. We bring everything else.

    You'll get a simple one-page run sheet before the day so nothing is left to guess.

  • Everywhere in Australia. We're Brisbane-based and deliver in every state and territory, from metro schools to regional and rural communities: interstate schools typically stack a student program, staff PD and a parent evening into one visit to make the most of it. See more where we deliver here

Compliance & Evidence

  • Yes. Ben is a fully registered teacher and additionally holds a current Blue Card Exemption and working-with-children registrations for the states we deliver in. Documentation is provided to your school before the visit as part of our standard booking pack.

  • Yes. Empowerment-Ed carries full public liability and professional indemnity insurance. Certificates of currency are supplied with every booking, before we set foot on site.

  • Yes. Programs are designed within evidence-based frameworks for social-emotional learning and relational pedagogy, our respectful relationships work is featured in the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Wellbeing Guide, and Empowerment-Ed is an endorsed Trusted eSafety Provider.

  • Our respectful relationships and consent content maps to the Australian Curriculum's Health and Physical Education requirements, including the consent education expectations, and complements each state's RRE framework rather than duplicating it. We'll show you the mapping for your year levels during planning on request.

Tailoring & What's Next

  • Every program is adapted: none are delivered off the shelf. That ranges from choosing modules and embedding your school's language and values, through to fully co-designed leadership experiences and retreats built with your pastoral team. You tell us the cohort and the need; we shape the program around it.

  • Yes. The Connected Family parent keynote runs as an evening session (often on the same day as a student program), and our teacher PD covers either RRE within school settings, or seperate behaviour management, engagement, teaching boys and relational pedagogy. Whole-community bookings are the most effective: students, staff and parents hearing one consistent message. Find out more Empowering Classrooms

  • Two easy first steps: download the free Whole-School Respectful Relationships Audit Tool to see where your school stands RRE Audit, or call Ben on 0422 066 281 for a no-obligation chat about your cohort.

    Most schools go from first call to confirmed booking inside a week.