About Darren

Darren Boyce (MAPP, MEd, BEd, GradCert Theol) is currently the Head of Positive Education at Good Shepherd Lutheran College (Northern Territory), a teacher of psychology and an accredited coach. He is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association and the Positive Education Schools Association.

For over 27 years Darren has been an educational leader including senior roles such as Principal, Head of Senior School and Organisational Development Coordinator in Schools in the Northern Territory and South Australia. He has significant experience in Indigenous education.

Darren holds a Masters of Education specialising in organisational change management and combined with his diverse experience, has developed a high degree of expertise in leading cultural change. Adding to this, Darren has used his Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (University of Melbourne) to bring evidence-based approaches into schools, thus, enabling staff and students to flourish and achieve.

Darren’s recent work is focused on the use of Appreciative Inquiry as the vehicle for whole school change and the use of coaching practices to promote self-directed performance improvement.

Trained by Professor Lea Waters as a Visible Wellbeing™ facilitator, Darren was an invited expert panel member at the Australian Council for Educational Leaders National Conference on Wellbeing and Confidence (2017), speaking on strength-based perspectives and wellbeing in schools.

 
“I have worked very closely with Darren in large-scale transformation at his own school where I witnessed first hand his perceptive understanding of how best to go about sustainable and effective change in his school community . He has a very strong understanding of methods of change and in particular, appreciative and positive psychology approaches. His passion shines through in how he gently leads his colleagues through new ways of seeing how they fit in and contribute to wellbeing everyday at school .
He is a living embodiment of visible wellbeing projecting positive energy and a contagious penchant for creative thinking that injects excitement into the initiatives that he drives.”
— Dr Steve Zolezzi, Consulting Psychologist, Ex Head of Positive Education Knox Grammar School