Victorian high schools · Years 7–12
The biggest battle students face is the one in their heads
We bring a live stage production into your school and follow it with an interactive Self-Talk workshop. The inner critic gets put on stage, then students get the tools to answer it.
Show and workshop run back to back and fit a normal timetable slot. Roughly an hour all up, and we work to your bell times, not ours.
The premise
Meet the voices in their heads
Every show works the same way: the thoughts students already have get pulled out of their heads and played by actors, out loud, in front of them. Once a voice has a face, it can be argued with.
You’re going to embarrass yourself. Again.
You’ve done harder things than this.
Get up. You said you would.
Do it tomorrow. Tomorrow’s better.
Three shows
Pick the conversation your students need
Each is a full production followed by the Self-Talk workshop.
#GoodEnough
The Inner Critic and the Inner Encourager, personified on stage. It hits the put-downs we all say to ourselves: body image, peer pressure, and not feeling good enough.
- Self-esteem
- Body image
- Peer pressure
- Bullying
#AllOfMe
Four characters of the mind (Motivator, Critic, Procrastinator and Child) drive a student named Aurora through her school day, motivating and sabotaging her by turns. It teaches students to retrain the voices rather than obey them.
- Decision-making
- Self-talk
- Healthy mind habits
#GenerationLIKE
The newest show. A comedy-drama exposing the hold social media has on teenagers, when likes are the currency and worth is measured in validation, and the lengths students go to for instant gratification.
- Online safety
- Identity
- Self-worth
- Newest show
See it in action
A minute in a school hall
Why schools book us twice
Most incursions end when the performance does
The show opens the conversation. The workshop is where students actually do the work.
Volunteers take the stage
Students play the Inner Critic and the Inner Encourager, repeating a script in front of their peers, then a third repeats it as “I am” statements.
A guided visualisation
The whole year level identifies their own two voices.
They write it down
What their critic has been telling them. Coordinators tell us this is the part that lands hardest.
They leave holding an affirmation
Their own words, in their own handwriting, to take home.
Who walks into your hall
I taught this age group before I performed for them
I’m Ally. Before this, I was a secondary teacher, standing in front of the same year levels I now perform to. That is why the show doesn’t talk down to them, and why I’m not thrown when a room of fifteen year olds decides to test whether I actually mean it.
The characters on stage aren’t a metaphor I invented for a wellbeing program. The inner critic is what students told me, over and over, was going on in their heads.
I write the shows, I perform them, and I run the workshop. The responses your students write come back with me, and your report is in your inbox inside a week.
The show is built for one performer on purpose. There’s no cast to coordinate and nobody else to fall through. The person you book is the person who walks into your hall.
What your school gets
Your own students’ data, in a week
We survey a sample of students before the show and again after the workshop, then send you a one-page report: what shifted, in your cohort, in their words.
Wellbeing spend has to be justified to someone. This is what you justify it with.
Illustrative layout. Every school’s report carries its own figures.
“Some very honest written responses were given about what their inner critic tells them, and the students were empowered to listen to their inner encourager. Their personal affirmations were very touching. Ally has given them some great tools to move forward in a positive way.”
Wellbeing Co-ordinatorAberfeldie Secondary College
Before you commit
Two promises, in writing
If the data shows nothing shifted, I will tell you
The report goes to you whether the numbers are flattering or not. A report that only turns up when the results are good is marketing, not evaluation, and you would be right not to trust it.
Talk to someone who has had us in
If it would help to hear it from another wellbeing coordinator rather than from me, say so in the enquiry and I will put you in touch.
Recent school visits
Booked by government, Catholic and independent schools
Curriculum alignment
The mapping is already done
Every show is mapped against the Victorian curriculum and the Australian Curriculum v9.0, plus the national wellbeing and online-safety frameworks. You shouldn’t have to build the justification for a wellbeing incursion yourself, so we built it.
- Victorian Curriculum F-10
- VIC · Drama
- VIC · Ethical Capability
- VIC · Civics & Citizenship
- Australian Curriculum v9.0
- General Capabilities
- HPE
- The Arts
- English
- Digital Technologies
- Australian Student Wellbeing Framework
- Be You
- eSmart Schools
- Positive Behaviour for Learning
- Best Practice Framework for Online Safety Education
Before you have to ask
The vetting answers, up front
- Child safety
- Child-safe policies and practices in place, in line with Victorian standards.
- Public liability
- Certificate of currency provided with your booking confirmation.
- ABN
- 20 251 508 176
- Where we travel
- Based in Melbourne, touring high schools throughout Victoria.
Tell us your year level and your term
We’ll come back with a date and a price. The enquiry form asks what we’d otherwise have to ring you about, so there’s no phone tag.