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Featured · May 10, 2026, 3:30pm AEST · 60 minutes · All

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Making Confident Decisions Workshop

A live workshop to help you make decisions about your future without the stress.

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ABOUT THIS SESSION

Choosing what to study and where to go is one of the biggest decisions you'll make — and it can feel overwhelming. In this interactive LIVE workshop, educator and author Anita Van Rooyen walks you through a practical decision-making framework that helps you cut through the noise and make a choice you'll feel good about.

What you'll learn in this session:

A step-by-step framework for making big decisions with confidence
How to identify what matters most to you when choosing a course or university
Strategies for dealing with overwhelm and decision paralysis

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

You can teach confidence. That's the thing most people get wrong about it.

Anita van Rooyen describes herself as having been the shyest person in the universe. Not a little reserved. Not a late bloomer. Properly, painfully shy, the kind that has you avoiding eye contact in case someone says hello. She spent a decade studying human behaviour to figure out how to change that in herself, and then built an entire practice around teaching it to young people.

Anita now runs Student Confidence, coaches students across Australian high schools, universities, and boarding schools, and has worked with more than 8,000 of them since lockdown. In 2021 the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) gave her a national innovation award for the preventative mental health programs she's built for international students.

What I like most: her workshops are PowerPoint-free. Students do the work, not the nodding.

So having Anita deliver one of our keynotes at the Choosing Your Uni National Virtual Expo 2026 is a real win. Her session is called "Making Confident Decisions," and for a cohort of students staring down the biggest decision of their life so far, that's the exact skill they need. Not more information. The confidence to act on what they already know.

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The Choosing Your Uni team gratefully acknowledges the support of Southern Cross University, without whom the Virtual Expo would not be possible.

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