EARLY CHILDHOOD TRAINING

In-house Training for Early Childhood Professionals

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Presentations

Can be delivered as keynote and workshops

at your workplace or nominated venue in Australia or Asia.

SUNSHINE CIRCLES®

Nurture your classroom with play!

Sunshine Circles® is a group based on Theraplay® principles that focuses on the social and emotional development of children. Sunshine Circles® gives children an opportunity to practice their self-regulation skills, co-regulation skills and to feel encouraged to have a go at achievable challenges. Educators lead playful, cooperative and nurturing activities to create an atmosphere of fun, caring, acceptance and encouragement. The goal is to enhance children’s social, emotional and cognitive development. Children embrace the three rules of Sunshine Circles®… No Hurts, Stick Together and Have Fun!... and carry them with them throughout the day. Sunshine Circles® provides educators with the resources to maintain an emotionally positive and cognitively enriched environment.

Sunshine Circles

Duration: 15 hour (2 day) workshop to professionals

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia

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HEY Little WARRIOR! 

4.8 out of 5 ⭐

Anxiety in Little Kids

Designed specifically for early childhood settings, this workshop is based on ‘Hey Warrior’ and ‘Hey Awesome’, the best-selling, highly-acclaimed children’s books which turn anxiety into an ally, and explore and explain anxiety through a neuroscientific, child-friendly lens. The workshop will provide early childhood educators with the practical strategies and information to support a class-based approach towards strengthening all children against anxiety, expanding their capacity for brave behaviour, and understanding more about the brain. Upon completion of the workshop, early childhood educators will have the information and practical tools to work with children on a group or individual level to support a greater understanding of the brain, build their capacity to calm big feelings (including anxiety and anger) and move towards brave behaviour. 

 

Hey Little Warrior

Duration: 3 hour workshop to professionals or parents

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia

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A DEVELOPING BRAIN 

4.72 out of 5 ⭐

Supporting Whole Child Development

Designed specifically for early childhood settings, this workshop explores the recent developments in neuroscience that have given us remarkable insight into the conditions and experiences that can dramatically influence the growth and development of all young children in positive and enduring ways. Early childhood is a particularly critical time for the developing brain, and the early childhood environment is rich with the necessary experiences and relationships to support children in their development, behaviour, learning, and social and emotional well-being. The relationships and experiences children are exposed to in their earliest years, will influence the neural foundations upon which their growth and development is built. This dynamic workshop will explore these conditions, and ways early childhood professionals can translate this knowledge into practice to nurture the holistic development of all children. 

 

A Developing Brain

Duration: 3 hour workshop to professionals or parents

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia

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UNDERSTAND YOUR BRAIN

THE FIRST 1000 DAYS

Nathan Wallis provides an informative and engaging narrative on how our loving day-to-day interactions with children , significantly the first 1000 days, plays a critical role in defining later outcomes for our children and for their future.

In contrast to what your parents believed, your outcomes are not predetermined just by your genes and it’s not about learning alphabets, numbers or colours. It’s about being in a safe, loving and interactive environment. The more love and positive interaction you experience in your first 1000 days of life, the more developed your brain will be. This will ultimately impact all of your child’s life-long outcomes. 

 

 

Duration: Keynote or 1 day workshop to professionals or parents

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia

ENGAGE YOUR BRAIN

2 - 8 Years

Nathan Wallis focuses on the social/emotional aspects of your brain development – how feeling impacts our thinking. While the times that this brain really has the steering wheel is 2-8yrs and again in the middle of adolescence, it is relevant to all learners who want to feel engaged, enthusiastic and passionate about what they do. 

The fundamental mistake society has made over the last few decades, is thinking that a two year-old is a little seven year-old and that the earlier we get ready to be seven, by learning numeracy and literacy, the better off we will be. That’s just not how our brain develops. A large part of intelligence is problem-solving and problem-solving is hugely dependent on creativity. Creativity largely comes online, between the ages of two and seven, in a free-play, child-lead environment. It’s development is inhibited if we focus instead on seven year old formalised literacy and numeracy.

This talk supports the research behind play based learning. Learning is so much easier when the learner is engaged. Come along and learn how to engage your brain.

 

 

Duration: Keynote or 1 day workshop to professionals or parents

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia

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