Professional Workshops

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Enhance your team’s knowledge.

Learn practical tools relevant to your workplace.

Facilitating a friendly and down-to-earth forum for learning and collaboration, Michelle offers information tailored to your workplace.

Staff will discover proven, practical strategies to support the children they work with.

All professional development workshops encourage self-reflection to shift positive changes in staff confidence, and outcomes for child-development.

Held in person, in Adelaide.

Workshops are for your team of:

  • Teachers

  • Early Childhood Educators

  • Allied Health Professionals

  • Support Workers

  • Policy Makers

  • Any team that works with young children

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Workshop Areas

    • Understanding the senses

    • Sensory regulation basics

    • The development of self-regulation

    • Stress responses

    • Impact on emotional and behavioural regulation

    • Co-regulation

    • Evidence-based sensory strategies

    • Self-regulation strategies for staff

    • Creating sensory spaces

    • Tailored content for your team

    • Option for individualised sensory assessment for staff, to encourage self-reflection

    • Includes handouts and Certificate of Completion

    • Evidence-based benefits of play

    • Discovering children’s play styles

    • Discovering adult play styles - what is your play style?

    • Using play to support child development, connection and calm

    • Problem solving mismatches in play styles

    • Creating playful environments

    • Self-reflection for staff to allow meaningful changes in practice

    • A neurodiversity-affirming approach throughout

    • Options for tailored inclusions for your team

    • Includes handouts and Certificate of Completion

  • Do you hold workshops on areas other than listed?

    • Yes! Other topics can include:

    • Child development; milestones, developmental differences, and navigating neurodivergence in an affirming way

    • Supporting areas of social communication, fine motor skills, toileting, etc.

    Where do you hold workshops?

    • At your workplace in Adelaide, or at another venue of your choice

    What do all workshops include?

    • Communication with you to tailor the content to your unique workplace

    • Folders including handouts

    • Certificates of Attendance

    What are the fees?

    • Investment varies based on the duration of your desired workshop, and size of your team

    • Please enquire below

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Testimonial

“Earlier this year, our team had the privilege of participating in Michelle’s Sensory Regulation Workshop through Wattle Tree Therapy, and it was an outstanding professional development experience.

Michelle delivered a workshop that was interactive, down-to-earth and incredibly engaging. Her ability to break down complex sensory processing concepts into clear, relatable language meant that every staff member, regardless of background knowledge and experience, walked away with a deeper and more practical understanding of sensory regulation.

The workshop also included hands-on sensory tools, meaningful activities to promote regulation, and plenty of opportunities for reflective discussion. Staff particularly valued learning:

  • the opportunity to explore their own sensory preferences and how these relate to our clients,

  • how the brain responds to stress,

  • how to identify early signs of dysregulation,

  • the difference between sensory and co-regulation strategies, and

  • practical ways to respond compassionately and effectively when clients become dysregulated.

Overall, this workshop has had a lasting positive impact on our practice, our confidence, and our understanding of sensory needs; both for ourselves and the clients we support. I would highly recommend Michelle and Wattle Tree Therapy to any organisation seeking high quality, evidence-based and uplifting professional development.”

Renee Erich - Director of Bloom Mentoring Services

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