Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Academic Conference Presentations
Academic Publications
Timeline
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Mardi Frost

Palm Beach,QLD

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

College Counsellor

St Andrews Lutheran College
Tallebudgera, QLD
01.2012 - Current
  • Counselling support for student, staff and parents.
  • Grief and Bereavement – Seasons Program
  • Positive Psychology – Trained through Penn State University.
  • Valuing Safe Communities Facilitator – 2012- current
  • Restorative Practices Facilitator and trainer – 2010 – current
  • Personal Safety and Personal Development presenter – Primary and Secondary Schools 1997-current.
  • Growth Mindset coaching
  • Behavioural diagnostics – Functional Behavioural Assessments
  • Cognitive assessments – TAPS, Naglieri.
  • Suicide and self-harm prevention and management.
  • Staff wellbeing program development.

Performing Arts Teacher

St Andrews Lutheran College
Tallebudgera, QLD
01.2006 - 01.2018
  • Encouraged collaboration between students to foster creativity and teamwork skills.
  • Attended conferences or seminars related to performing arts education in order to stay current with best practices.
  • Developed and implemented a comprehensive performing arts curriculum for students of all ages.

Performing Arts and Physical Education Teacher

Education Queensland
Gold Coast, QLD
06.1996 - 10.2006
  • Actively participated in professional development opportunities related to current trends in health and wellness.
  • Collaborated with school administrators to develop strategies for improving physical education and dance programs across grade levels.
  • Developed and implemented physical education and dance curriculum for students in grades Prep-12.
  • Member of Dance moderation and verification team 1998-2011 (South Coast region).

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Honours Research - Arts, Education And Law

Griffith University
Queensland
07-2018

Master of Educational Studies - Guidance And Counselling

University of Queensland
Brisbane
11-2012

Graduate Certificate of Grief And Palliative Care Counselling - Grief And Loss

University of Adelaide
Adelaide
01-2010

Graduate Diploma in Education - PDHPE

Southern Cross University
Lismore
12-1995

Bachelor of Human Movement Studies -

Australian Catholic University
Sydney, NSW
12-1993

Ph.D. - School of Humanities, Languages And Social Science

Griffith University
Queensland

Skills

  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Identification of needs
  • Policy and procedure improvements
  • Individual Counselling
  • Workshop Facilitation
  • Advising expertise
  • Community Engagement
  • Conference presenting
  • Problem-solving aptitude
  • Crisis intervention strategies

Academic Conference Presentations

  • 2023 15th Academic International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICSSH 2023 Vancouver). Blue Deathscapes – the lived experience of grief and remembrance in ocean spaces
  • 2020 – Global Wave Conference – Gold Coast: In the Arms of the Ocean – Exploring the experiences of surfers who maintain a continued bond and presence of a deceased loved one in an ocean space.
  • 2019 – Death Dying and Disposal Conference – University of Bath, UK: Grief, mourning and remembrance in ocean spaces. A case study of an Australian surfing community.
  • 2018 - The Asian Conference on Education & International Development 2018 – Kobe, Japan: Pedagogical Approaches for Teaching Emotional Regulation and Encouraging a Growth Mindset in Students Attempting Problems Solving Tasks
  • 2017 - APACS National Conference (Australian Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools) – Melbourne: Accessing Social Media Profiles to Gain Information When Counselling Adolescent Clients. What are the Boundaries?
  • 2016 – Surfing Social Conference – Waikato University, Raglan, NZ: What is the cultural and historical significance of memorial paddle out ceremonies in surfing culture and what is the ongoing value of this type of ceremony in mourning and remembering?
  • 2016 - Hawaii International Conference in Education – Waikiki: Restorative Practices – Learning to Make Things Right
  • 2015 - Hawaii International Conference in Education – Waikiki: The Impact of Digital Technology Use in High School Critical Incidents: Why schools need to update their current policies.
  • 2015 APACS National Conference (Australian Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools) – Adelaide: Digital Technology Communication and How It Impacts Grief and Bereavement Within a School Community
  • 2014 – Australian Grief and Bereavement Conference- Melbourne: Memorial Paddle Out Ceremonies in the Surfing Culture – An investigation into historical and cultural significance.

Academic Publications

Gibson, M., & Frost, M. (2019). Surfing and ocean-based death ritual: the paddle-out ceremony. Mortality, 24(3), 304-318.

Frost, M. (2022). Ocean deathscapes–The placement and contestation of vernacular memorials on the Australian coastline. Emotion, Space and Society, 45, 100927.

Frost, M. (2015). The impact of digital technology use in high school critical incidents: why schools need to update their current policies. Australian Journal of Middle Schooling, 15(1), 28-35.

Frost, M. (2014). The grief grapevine: Facebook memorial pages and adolescent bereavement. Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 24(2), 256-265.

Feature article about paddle out ceremonies – White Horses (#26), Surfers Journal (24.6)

Timeline

College Counsellor

St Andrews Lutheran College
01.2012 - Current

Performing Arts Teacher

St Andrews Lutheran College
01.2006 - 01.2018

Performing Arts and Physical Education Teacher

Education Queensland
06.1996 - 10.2006

Bachelor of Arts - Honours Research - Arts, Education And Law

Griffith University

Master of Educational Studies - Guidance And Counselling

University of Queensland

Graduate Certificate of Grief And Palliative Care Counselling - Grief And Loss

University of Adelaide

Graduate Diploma in Education - PDHPE

Southern Cross University

Bachelor of Human Movement Studies -

Australian Catholic University

Ph.D. - School of Humanities, Languages And Social Science

Griffith University
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