On Demand and Online Training
We believe that connection is key. When completing our online courses, you will receive personal feedback from our course facilitators, on your reflective assessment, before you are issued with a certificate. We know that you will love the topics that we have on offer. Be sure to check back regularly and subscribe to our mailing list for new opportunities!
Online Mini Courses
They may be small, but they are packed with information, ideas and inspiration. Each mini course features four lessons, as well as a course welcome and reflective assessment. They are a combination of text, images, article links, videos and more!
The Debrief Package
With the Debrief Package services can now facilitate reflective practice among their team, supporting educators to consider, and discuss the implications of various training topics.
Learn MoreThe Grow Team Package
With the Grow Team Package services can now inspire, motivate and educate their team throughout the year, without the stress of having to ask "have you finished that training yet?"
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I Belong Mini Course
A mini course designed to explore what genuine belonging looks and feels like for children, families and educators.
$24.00 AUD
STEM Mini Course
A mini course designed to unpack the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in meaningful and playful ways.
$24.00 AUD
Conflict: Obstacle or Opportunity? Mini Course
A mini course designed to empower educators to appropriately manage conflict with colleagues, families or others and to inspire them to see these as opportunities for growth.
$24.00 AUD
Brilliant Babies Mini Course
This jam packed mini-course is the perfect introduction or refresher for educators working with infants. With a focus on rights and respect, development basics, and programming, the content will spark deep reflection and support educators to be their very best for the infants in their care.
$24.00 AUD
Terrific Toddlers Mini Course
A mini course designed to give you insight, ideas and inspiration on working with Terrific Toddlers.
$24.00 AUD
Positive School Transitions Mini Course
This mini course advocates against the downward push of academics, inspiring reflection on the transition to school and out of the home/early education and care setting.
$24.00 AUD
Pondering Play Mini Course
A mini course designed to unpack the importance of play, deepening the understanding of educators and enhancing our programs to really embrace play. As you explore who owns the play, you will be encouraged to shift expectations of what play looks like.
$24.00 AUD
Loving Loose Parts Mini Course
A mini course designed to provide an understanding of what loose parts are, and the practicalities of using them within our settings. Learn how to share the benefits of loose parts play with colleagues, families and management.
$24.00 AUD
Creating Yes Spaces Mini Course
This mini-course will support educators to understand the elements of both the physical environment and our own practice, that create places of YES for children. Learn about the characteristics required of adults in a "yes" space and what this means for us as educators.
$24.00 AUD
Mindfulness and Motivation Mini Course
A mini course designed to support wellbeing and motivation in what can sometimes be a physically and emotionally demanding profession.
$24.00 AUD
Focus on Philosophy Mini Course
A mini course supporting you to think deeply about your personal and service philosophy.
$24.00 AUD
No More Team Building Games Mini Course
A mini course designed to encourage you to think differently about working as part of a team!
$24.00 AUD
Reflecting on Risk Mini Course
This mini course will empower educators to embrace risky play in their early education and care settings.
$24.00 AUD
Effective Supervision Mini Course
A mini course designed to unpack what effective supervision looks like and why it's so important.
$24.00 AUD
Stepping into Sustainability Mini Course
This mini course will support educators by encouraging you to reflect on the sustainability of your thinking and practice.
$24.00 AUD
Progressive and Responsive Routines and Rhythms Mini Course
This mini course will support educators to reflect on how routines and rhythms are managed within the service, ensuring that these are responsive to the needs of children.
$24.00 AUD
Connection Counts Mini Course
This mini course will share simple strategies for building and maintaining strong relationships with children, and support learning about the benefits of doing so.
$24.00 AUD
Understanding Schema and Discovery Play Mini Course
This mini course has been designed to support educators in exploring the innate way in which infants and toddlers explore the world around them.
$24.00 AUD
Educators as Advocates Mini Course
In this mini course we will explore the idea of advocacy, unpack examples of it, and look at simple strategies for embedding advocacy in your day-to-day practice, and life. We'll also discuss what it means to lead advocacy, and how to find what you even want to be an advocate for!
$24.00 AUD
Who are these mini courses suited for?
How long will these mini courses take?
What will I receive?
We are delighted to introduce, as part of an ongoing collaboration with Worimi/Biripi man Uncle Wayne Anderson, this deep dive into the 8 Aboriginal Ways of Thinking developed as a pedagogy framework native to the Western Region of NSW.
"Every place, every People, has its own unique pedagogies. These 8 simple ones are merely a starting point for dialogue. Each school will engage in a different way, and can produces its own unique frameworks for Aboriginal education through dialogue with the community about local ways of doing things."
Larger Courses and Opportunities
Our larger courses and other opportunities provide a more time intensive and deeper focus on various topics. These courses allow educators to really dig into a topic and gain even greater understanding, insight and growth in their practice.
Online Course - What's So Special About the Outdoors?
Through practical stories and examples, participants will unack the challenges of outdoor play, the value of long periods of time outdoors and the practicalities for engaging with children in outdoor environments in meaningful ways.
$37.00 AUD
Online Course - Reflective Practice
It is crucial, as professionals, that we are able to reflect, not only on our programs, but our practice, pedagogy and environment. This course will focus on the key elements of reflection practice supporting educators to gain confidence.
$37.00 AUD
Online Course - Mixed Age Groups
Using what we know about how children best learn, this course will support you to consider alternate ways in which children can advance their knowledge and skill.
$27.00 AUD
Online Course - Holding Space for Big Feelings
This course will show you the science behind big feelings, stress and crying, consequences of suppressed emotions, how to hold space for crying and tantrums, and so much!
$57.00 AUD
Sensory Processing
A series in Collaboration with Occupational Therapist, Bonnie Berry
Community Challenges
Our Community Challenges are designed to support educators to think more deeply about the ways in which they unpack various challenge prompts, as well as to inspire further thought and connection with other educators and our training facilitators.
Webinar Packages
Make the most of your Learning with our range of on-demand webinar packages. Up to 12 Months of content available at a discounted rate, including personal feedback from our course facilitators, on your reflective assessment.
Introducing the Explorations Early Learning Partnership Package
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