This inaugural online event brings together a powerhouse of wisdom, knowledge and up to date research and evidence on children's behaviour and development.

Speaking on their areas of research and expertise, our presenters will support educators to add to their tool kit and transform their practice.

This three part program will see 4 inspiring presenters take to the stage to discuss their area of expertise.

What you'll get

This online course is designed to maximise your learning opportunity while fitting in with your schedule

  • Bonus content

    Our conference speakers have also created a suite of downloadable resources to support your learning beyond the sessions. You’ll receive reflective booklets and practical tools designed to help you pause, consider children’s underlying needs, and explore relationship-based, strengths-focused ways to nurture social and emotional wellbeing.

  • Manageable chunks

    The Supporting Children’s Social and Emotional Wellbeing Conference (recorded with a live audience over one full day) is presented in short, engaging sessions you can watch at your own pace. Each session offers practical insights, reflective prompts, and trauma-informed, relationship-based strategies that are easy to integrate into your daily work with children.

  • A shared needs-focused language

    This course gives you a shared, needs-focused language to bring back to your team, helping everyone view behaviour through a wellbeing and relationship-based lens. It inspires fresh ideas, sparks curiosity, and supports a shift toward cup-filling practices that genuinely work for children and educators.

Course curriculum

    1. How to use this platform

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Student walk through video

    3. Acknowledgement to Country

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Agreement

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Trent Savill

    2. Complex Trauma and Behaviours Reflection Booklet

    3. Video Playback: Trent Savill

    1. Dr. Louise Porter and Sandi Phoenix

    2. Big Feelings Reflection Booklet

    3. Big Feelings with Dr. Lousie Porter and Sandi Phoenix

    4. Trust Children Poster

    1. Allison Davies

    2. Music and the Brain Reflection Booklet

    3. Video Playback: Allison Davies

    1. Other Professional and Personal Development Opportunities

    1. FAQs

    2. Keep in Touch with the Phoenix Team

    3. This Is Just The Beginning

About this course

  • $198.00
  • 18 lessons
  • 4.5 hours of video content

Participant outcomes

Take this opportunity to deepen your practice and contribute to positive, meaningful change across education and care communities.

  • Understand what children really need

    Learn to look beneath behaviour and recognise the needs, skills, and capacities driving children’s actions. These short sessions give you a clear, compassionate, trauma-informed lens grounded in contemporary neuroscience and social and emotional learning.

  • Use supportive strategies that actually work

    Walk away with practical, relationship-based strategies you can use straight away. Each session offers simple, powerful ways to strengthen safety, connection, and emotional regulation through approaches that honour children’s needs and wellbeing.

  • Share a common, trauma-informed language with your team

    Gain a shared, needs-focused language that helps your whole team talk about children’s behaviour with clarity and confidence. This approach supports consistent, cup-filling practice and makes positive change easier to lead.

Who is this for?

This conference is for educators and leaders in early childhood education and care across Australia. The concepts and strategies are easy to adapt, making them useful for anyone working with children of any age, in a variety of settings, anywhere in the world.

  • Educators

  • Carers

  • Teachers

  • Nannies

  • Early years practitioners

  • Youth workers

Presenters

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.

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.

PhD, MA(Hons), MGiftedEd, DipEd, BA, BIntStuds Child Psychologist Dr Louise Porter

Dr Louise Porter, PhD, MA(Hons), MGiftedEd, DipEd, BA, BIntStuds, Child Psychologist is passionate about safeguarding children’s self-esteem, promoting their social skills, and supporting their resilience in the face of the challenges that life often raises. Louise advocates for teaching children to behave considerately, being mindful of how their behaviour affects others, rather than what consequences it may earn them. She has taught at university, conducted a private practice for 30 years, and worked in both mainstream and disability agencies and schools. She is an outstanding author of some of the best texts in the world on the topic of guidance. Louise is a popular speaker throughout Australia and internationally.

Principal Facilitator Sandi Phoenix

Sandi is the founding company director and principal facilitator at Phoenix Support for Educators. Her framework, The Phoenix Cups, have revolutionised how education & care professionals and parents, understand the behaviour of, and proactively plan for, the wellbeing of children and young people. She is highly regarded as an international speaker, coach, mentor, and professional development facilitator.

FAQ

  • How much does it cost?

    This online program is $198 AUD per participant. If you require bulk logins (10 participants or more), please get in touch via [email protected] or phone 1300 361 243 to request a bulk buy discount coupon code. Check out more about our company packages here https://phoenix-support.thinkific.com/pages/packages

  • How long does the course take to complete?

    The course can be completed in half a day (approximately 3.5 hours including videos and readings). We recommend doing it over one week, however, you will have access for the whole month.

  • Will I get a certificate?

    Yes! Once you've completed all of the content here, you'll be issued with a personalised downloadable participation certificate. Yay!

  • What professional standards does this course link to?

    This conference aligns with key elements of the National Quality Standard, including 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, and 1.2.3, by supporting educators to make child-centred, intentional, and responsive decisions that strengthen children’s social and emotional wellbeing. It also reflects Elements 2.1.1, 5.1.1, and 5.2.1 through a focus on trauma-informed, relationship-based practice that promotes emotional safety, positive interactions, and collaborative learning. The course links with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (1.1, 1.5, 4.1, 4.3, 6.2 and 7.4), offering evidence-informed professional learning that supports educators to understand how children learn, differentiate support, respond to behavioural challenges through a needs-focused lens, and work collectively to improve outcomes for children. (Please note – this course is not yet NESA approved.)

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