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Centre-Based Professional Development

Bring professional development directly to your team with customised training designed for your specific setting, children, and challenges.

Customised Professional Learning for Your Team

Our centre-based professional development brings targeted learning directly to your team, customised to address your specific challenges, physical environment, and the unique needs of your children and educators. This approach ensures maximum relevance and immediate application in your educational context.

Our Centre-Based PD Approach

Preliminary Consultation

We begin with a detailed conversation to understand your team's specific needs, current challenges, physical space considerations, and professional development goals. This consultation helps us tailor content precisely to your setting.

Customised Content Development

Based on your consultation, we develop training materials specifically for your centre's unique context. This includes customised activities, case examples relevant to your setting, and strategies that work within your physical environment and resources.

Interactive Training Session

We deliver engaging, practical professional development at your location. Sessions are highly interactive, with hands-on components that allow your team to experience and practice new strategies together in their actual work environment.

Implementation Support

Following the training, we provide implementation resources, practical guides, and optional follow-up consultations to help your team successfully integrate new approaches into their practice. This ensures learning translates to sustainable change.

Impact Assessment

For centres seeking ongoing support, we offer optional follow-up assessment to evaluate the impact of implemented strategies and refine approaches based on real-world outcomes in your setting.

Common Centre-Based PD Topics

Integrating Purposeful Movement Throughout the Day

Learn how to incorporate developmental movement activities into transitions, group times, and learning experiences. This practical session helps teams identify natural opportunities for movement within their existing routines.

Creating a Regulation-Supportive Environment

Assess your physical space through a regulation lens and develop practical modifications that support both children's and educators' nervous systems. Includes hands-on work in your actual environment.

Team Approach to Supporting Challenging Behaviours

Develop a consistent, regulation-focused approach to supporting children with challenging behaviours. This session builds team cohesion and a shared framework for responding to dysregulation.

Educator Self-Regulation and Wellbeing

Equip your team with practical self-regulation strategies specifically designed for the unique stressors of your educational setting. This session focuses on sustainable wellbeing practices that support quality teaching.

Centre-based sessions range from 2-hour intensives to full-day immersive experiences and can accommodate teams of all sizes. Multiple session packages are available for centres seeking more comprehensive professional development journeys.

Book Centre-Based PD for Your Team

Complete our inquiry form to discuss your team's professional development needs. We serve centres throughout Melbourne, with special focus on the Casey Cardinia, Merri-Bek, Manningham, Yarra Ranges, Knox, and Maroondah regions.

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