About us

Our mission statement

Our mission is to engage, educate and empower young people and their parents throughout Sydney. Life Lessons Educational Programs is dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of young people and their parents by providing schools, communities and parent groups with relevant workshops that empower informed decisions and help to build up resilience.

Our founder

“With over 20 years of extensive experience working and engaging with young people as a Social Worker, I have a clear understanding of the many social issues that surround them – this includes substance use and abuse, peer and relationship issues and sexual health. I am passionate about the education and welfare of young people and enjoy helping to give young people the empowerment to deal with the many challenges that they will face in today’s society”

Gitta Johnston - Managing Director, principal trainer and founder of Life Lessons

Our facilitators

We use highly qualified and extremely experienced trainers to educate life skills to young people, their parents and the community.

All Life Lessons facilitators have undergone specific training to provide life skills for kids and their parents through comprehensive programs based on current trends and statistics. They all have degrees in relevant disciplines such as Education, Psychology, Social Work and Community Welfare and they all work or have worked within these specialist areas.

Life Lessons facilitators meet all the required criteria for working with children and have been selected for their appropriate qualifications, knowledge, presentation skills, group experience and ability to engage and connect with young people and provide life skills for kids.

Our motivational speakers

We have two highly experienced and inspirational speakers - Johnathan Beninca and Armondo Hurley. They both deliver unforgettable speeches and are renowned for being experts on the topics they discuss, encouraging their  audience to look at things from a different perspective and to become more attentive to their own talents and abilities.