Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing

Masterclass Facilitators Dr Louise Porter and Sandi Phoenix

Music Therapist Allison Davies

Working within a neurodiversity framework that favours regulation over intervention, and sharing her lived experience of autism, Allison empowers others to use music as a tool for neuro-regulation at home and in the classroom. Her programs, workshops and speaking events have received international acclaim for their ability to enthrall an audience, deliver lightbulb moments and shift paradigms away from behavioural management and towards brain care.

Director, Complex Care Trent Savill

Trent Savill is a consultant therapist and the Director of Complex Care. Trent has been working with complex and high-risk young people in the child-protection system since 2004, coordinating residential care, providing consultancy to the Department of Communities (Child Safety) and Non-government sector, intensive in-home therapy to children and families, and training to carers and professionals. Trent’s primary role now involves consulting with diﬀerent agencies around their most complex/high-risk cases and delivering training around the provision of therapeutic care for Australia’s most vulnerable children and young people.

Masterclass Facilitators Dr Louise Porter and Sandi Phoenix

Music Therapist Allison Davies

Working within a neurodiversity framework that favours regulation over intervention, and sharing her lived experience of autism, Allison empowers others to use music as a tool for neuro-regulation at home and in the classroom. Her programs, workshops and speaking events have received international acclaim for their ability to enthrall an audience, deliver lightbulb moments and shift paradigms away from behavioural management and towards brain care.

Director, Complex Care Trent Savill

Trent Savill is a consultant therapist and the Director of Complex Care. Trent has been working with complex and high-risk young people in the child-protection system since 2004, coordinating residential care, providing consultancy to the Department of Communities (Child Safety) and Non-government sector, intensive in-home therapy to children and families, and training to carers and professionals. Trent’s primary role now involves consulting with diﬀerent agencies around their most complex/high-risk cases and delivering training around the provision of therapeutic care for Australia’s most vulnerable children and young people.