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Professional Learning Opportunities

Empowering organisations, businesses, schools, and community services with tailored professional learning for growth, safety, and impact.

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Why Choose Us?

Our tailored professional learning programs are designed to build safety, support wellbeing, cultural change, growth and drive impact across organisations, schools, and community services. Backed by research and best-practice methodologies, our offerings are facilitated by a multi-displinary team experts who bring decades of experience across education, community services, business and psychology. They have supported hundreds of schools, businesses and organisations across Australia to manage change and bring real-world experience to every session. Our professional learning is grounded in three decades of practice and experience of over 2,000 staff in our own community services, residential care settings, schools, outreach education programs and delivering learning to partner organisations.


How Our Process Works

  1. Consultation: We consult with you to understand your goals, needs and organisational strengths, ensuring the learning journey is tailored to your organisation and is grounded in a strengths-based approach.
  2. Co-Design and Development: We develop with you a customised, evidence-based training program aligned to your specific context.
  3. Delivery and Implementation: We provide interactive workshops, coaching, and experiential learning sessions using evidence-based learning principles to ensure lasting impact.
  4. Follow-Up Support: Post-training support to embed learning and ensure sustainable change.

Learn More About Some of Our Options

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Teacher & Student Wellbeing

Whole school wellbeing model that equips educators with tools to prevent and respond to stress and trauma, increasing staff and student wellbeing.

Power to Kids in Schools

Student Safety

Whole school child safety model that equips educators with strategies to prevent and respond to child sexual exploitation, harmful sexual behaviours, and relationship violence.

Child Safety

Power to Kids eLearning

Self-paced learning program to equip adults working with children and young people with knowledge and practical tools to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse.

Student Wellbeing

Student Mental Health Literacy

A 1 or 2 day learning program with evidence-based and practical strategies to recognise, respond to, and support students experiencing common mental health challenges.

Leadership Skills

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Insights and practical strategies enabling leaders to effectively navigate common challenges, foster wellbeing, and lead with accountability.

Workplace Wellbeing

Trauma-Informed Practice

Foundational understanding of trauma, impacts, and responses, equipping staff with practical strategies to enhance psychological safety.

Student Engagement & Behaviour

Student Co-Regulation

Two-day course of strategies to support students experiencing dysregulation, fostering emotional regulation, prosocial behaviour, and safe, predictable learning environments.

Workplace Wellbeing

Combatting Vicarious Trauma

A six-hour workshop equiping professionals with strategies to identify, prevent, and respond to vicarious/secondary trauma, fostering safety and resilience.

Student Safety

Child Safety eLearning for School Staff

Self-paced learning to support Victorian school staff to deepen understanding of the Child Safe Standards.

Student Safety

Child Safety eLearning for School Councils

Self-paced learning to support Victorian school councils to deepen understanding of the Child Safe Standards.

Student Engagement & Behaviour

Building Safe and Engaged Classrooms

Two-day workshop to strengthen understanding of trauma-responsive classrooms and promoting prosocial behaviours.

Teacher Wellbeing

Leading Educator Wellbeing

Three-day course for school leaders on evidence informed strategies to reduce educator stress and burnout while building wellbeing and engagement.

The Sanctuary Model

Workplace Safety & Wellbeing

A whole-of-organisation model for building trauma-informed, psychosocially safe and resilient workplace cultures.

Power to Kids in OOHC

Child Safety

Whole-of-orfanisation model that equips Out-of-Home Care staff with strategies to prevent and respond to child sexual exploitation, harmful sexual behaviours, and relationship violence.

Workplace Wellbeing

Leading Functional Teams

One-day workshop offering eight behavioural commitments and frameworks for psychologically safe, respectful, and resilient teams.

Change Management

Managing Change

One-day workshop to equip with psychological insight and tools to navigate and lead organisational change with resilience, empathy, and strategic clarity.

Leadership Growth

Transformative Leadership

A three-part series designed to cultivate authentic, adaptive, and inspirational leadership for navigating complex organisational environments.

Leadership Skills

Leading Difficult Conversations

One-day workshop to equip skills to navigate difficult workplace conversations with confidence, compassion, and psychological safety.

Contact us to explore professional learning for your organisation.

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