About the Workshop

Trauma leaves a profound imprint on young minds, shaping their thoughts, behaviours, and future relationships. This course equips early childhood educators with the knowledge and tools to nurture positive outcomes, wellbeing and engagement in children who have faced early life adversities. Through this trauma-informed workshop, you'll gain insights into the neuroscience behind trauma responses in the brain, its impacts on childhood development, implications for learning, and practical strategies to create a safe, supportive and effective learning environment that is inclusive for all children. 

  

Whether you are new to trauma-informed education or looking to deepen your understanding, this workshop provides strategies and theoretical underpinnings to help every child feel safe, seen, and supported in your service.  

Course curriculum

    1. What is trauma? Definitions and Types

    2. Trauma and the Brain

    3. Brief Reflection

    4. Impacts and Strategies

    5. The Safety Cup Mind Map

    6. The Connection Cup Mind Map

    7. Safety Cup Resource Library

    8. Connection Cup Resource Library

    9. Safe, Seen, Supported Resource Library

    1. Reflective Questions

    2. Get in touch with the team at Phoenix Support

    3. Other Professional and Personal Development Opportunities

About this course

  • $48.00
  • 17 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Participant Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will:   

  • Develop a comprehensive understanding of trauma and its long-term impacts on children’s brains, behaviour, and development.

  • Identify and respond effectively to trauma-related behaviours in children.

  • Employ trauma-informed teaching strategies that promote safety and connection. 

  • Build trusting, empathetic relationships with children to foster resilience and emotional growth.

  • Create predictable and nurturing environments that support children’s sense of safety and autonomy.

  • Video material

    This course includes video presentations from Elise Waghorn (Phd Candidate).

  • Downloadable PDF's

    Downloadable resources that every educator needs for understanding and supporting children who have experienced trauma.

  • Web-Links

    This course also provides web-links to key learning material, and further online video content.

Meet Your Facilitator

Facilitator Briana Thorne

Briana is a passionate and experienced early years education specialist. Briana has worked across a variety of roles in early years education as an Early Childhood Teacher, Educational Leader, Centre Director, Area Manager, State Manager and General Manager. Briana’s passion for the highest quality education and care led her to work for the Victorian Regulatory Authority supporting and assessing services practices and quality through regulatory and Assessment and Rating procedures. Briana has her Masters in Early Years Education with a specialisation in Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. Briana’s philosophy places the child at the heart of every decision, connection and action across early years settings. Advocating for children’s agency, embracing children’s voices and child-led educational programming and planning has been a long-held practice. As an experienced leader and mentor, Briana enjoys teaching and supporting educators and leaders to build strong, supported teams of professionals with a shared culture of growth, care and to enable teams to flourish together. With a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Performing Arts, Briana has a dramatic streak and her skills in documentation and the written word support her in providing engaging and high quality training. In her downtime, Briana enjoys filling her giant Connection and Mastery cups by spending quality time with her family, taking on yet another project or challenging herself to learn something new time and again.

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