Supporting and Guiding Resilient Children: Confidence, Coping, Growth, & Positive Behaviour
Supporting and Guiding Resilient Children: Confidence, Coping, Growth, & Positive Behaviour
Thursday 30th July 2026
6:30pm - 8:30pm AEST (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland)
6:00pm - 8:00pm - South Australia, Northern Territory
Monday 3rd August 2026
6:00pm - 8:00pm - AEST (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland)
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Western Australia
Prices:
Individual - $129- Team - $599
Tax Deductible, Certificate received for Professional Development
Overview
This practice-focused course invites educators to step into one of their most powerful roles in early childhood education—supporting and guiding a child’s sense of resilience, confidence, and emotional strength through everyday moments of connection, language, and learning.
Grounded in the belief that resilience is not innate but carefully nurtured through relationships, experience, and environment, this course explores how educators can intentionally build the foundations for lifelong coping, perseverance, and self-belief. It highlights the profound impact of the educator’s presence—how tone, expectation, responsiveness, and relational safety quietly shape how children see themselves and the world around them.
Through small, consistent, and meaningful interactions, educators will discover how they can support children to move through challenge, embrace effort, and develop a deep and enduring sense of “I can try, I can learn, I can grow.”
What Educators Will Learn
Module Breakdown
Module 1: What is Resilience?
This module introduces resilience as a dynamic, relationally built capacity rather than a fixed trait. Educators will explore how resilience develops through emotionally safe relationships, consistent experiences, and opportunities for manageable challenge. The session unpacks how resilience presents in early childhood settings—not as “toughness,” but as the ability to persist, recover, adapt, and try again.
Educators will reflect on how their everyday interactions contribute to this foundation, and how emotional safety, trust, and connection create the conditions children need to take learning risks and develop confidence in their abilities.
Module 2: Building Confidence & Self-Worth
This module explores the educator’s role as a key architect of a child’s identity and internal belief system. It examines how children develop their sense of “who I am” and “what I can do” through repeated relational experiences and feedback from their environment.
Educators will explore how intentional language, genuine encouragement, and strengths-based recognition can either strengthen or undermine a child’s confidence. The focus is on moving beyond surface praise toward meaningful affirmation that builds capability, agency, and self-trust. Participants will learn how to consistently support “I am capable,” “I can try,” and “I am growing” thinking in everyday practice.
Module 3: Supporting Coping & Emotional Strength
This module focuses on supporting children through the full spectrum of emotional experience—frustration, disappointment, uncertainty, failure, and change. Educators will explore how emotional strength is not about avoiding difficulty, but about being supported through it in safe, attuned, and responsive ways.
Practical strategies are provided to help educators remain calm and grounded during challenging moments, while co-regulating with children in ways that build emotional safety and trust. The module emphasises slowing down reactions, holding emotional space, and supporting children to experience discomfort without being overwhelmed by it—building true emotional endurance over time.
Module 4: Growth Mindset in Action
This module brings resilience to life through intentional everyday practice. Educators will explore how language, environment, and pedagogy work together to embed a growth mindset culture where effort, curiosity, mistakes, and challenge are seen as essential parts of learning.
Participants will learn how to model persistence, reframe setbacks, and encourage children to embrace “not yet” thinking. The module also explores how learning environments can be intentionally designed to invite exploration, independence, and problem-solving—supporting children to see themselves as capable learners who can grow through experience.
Module 5: Resilience & Positive Behaviour
This module explores the powerful connection between resilience and positive behaviour in early childhood settings. Educators will learn how a child’s capacity to cope, persist, and regulate emotions directly influences their behaviour, relationships, and engagement in learning.
Rather than viewing behaviour in isolation, this module reframes it through a resilience lens—helping educators understand that behaviour is often an expression of a child’s emotional capacity in that moment. Practical strategies are shared to support children in developing self-regulation, problem-solving skills, and emotional endurance, while reducing reliance on reactive or punitive approaches.
Educators will also explore how consistent expectations, supportive relationships, and intentional teaching build internal resilience, leading to more positive, connected, and confident behaviour over time.
Thursday 30th July 2026
6:30pm - 8:30pm AEST (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland)
6:00pm - 8:00pm - South Australia, Northern Territory
Monday 3rd August 2026
6:00pm - 8:00pm - AEST (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland)
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Western Australia
Prices:
Individual - $129- Team - $599
Tax Deductible, Certificate received for Professional Development
Overview
This practice-focused course invites educators to step into one of their most powerful roles in early childhood education—supporting and guiding a child’s sense of resilience, confidence, and emotional strength through everyday moments of connection, language, and learning.
Grounded in the belief that resilience is not innate but carefully nurtured through relationships, experience, and environment, this course explores how educators can intentionally build the foundations for lifelong coping, perseverance, and self-belief. It highlights the profound impact of the educator’s presence—how tone, expectation, responsiveness, and relational safety quietly shape how children see themselves and the world around them.
Through small, consistent, and meaningful interactions, educators will discover how they can support children to move through challenge, embrace effort, and develop a deep and enduring sense of “I can try, I can learn, I can grow.”
What Educators Will Learn
- A rich and practical understanding of resilience in early childhood development and behaviour
- How resilience is deeply interconnected with confidence, self-worth, identity, and emotional wellbeing
- The role of relationships and lived experience in developing coping skills over time
- How to support healthy risk-taking, persistence, and problem-solving in play-based learning
- The powerful influence of educator language on mindset, self-talk, and emotional development
- Practical, everyday strategies to foster independence, perseverance, and emotional regulation
- How to intentionally embed resilience-building moments into routines, transitions, and interactions
- How to respond to challenge, frustration, and emotional overwhelm in ways that build capacity rather than dependency
- How building confidence, and self-worth shapes resilience which fosters positive behaviour in children
Module Breakdown
Module 1: What is Resilience?
This module introduces resilience as a dynamic, relationally built capacity rather than a fixed trait. Educators will explore how resilience develops through emotionally safe relationships, consistent experiences, and opportunities for manageable challenge. The session unpacks how resilience presents in early childhood settings—not as “toughness,” but as the ability to persist, recover, adapt, and try again.
Educators will reflect on how their everyday interactions contribute to this foundation, and how emotional safety, trust, and connection create the conditions children need to take learning risks and develop confidence in their abilities.
Module 2: Building Confidence & Self-Worth
This module explores the educator’s role as a key architect of a child’s identity and internal belief system. It examines how children develop their sense of “who I am” and “what I can do” through repeated relational experiences and feedback from their environment.
Educators will explore how intentional language, genuine encouragement, and strengths-based recognition can either strengthen or undermine a child’s confidence. The focus is on moving beyond surface praise toward meaningful affirmation that builds capability, agency, and self-trust. Participants will learn how to consistently support “I am capable,” “I can try,” and “I am growing” thinking in everyday practice.
Module 3: Supporting Coping & Emotional Strength
This module focuses on supporting children through the full spectrum of emotional experience—frustration, disappointment, uncertainty, failure, and change. Educators will explore how emotional strength is not about avoiding difficulty, but about being supported through it in safe, attuned, and responsive ways.
Practical strategies are provided to help educators remain calm and grounded during challenging moments, while co-regulating with children in ways that build emotional safety and trust. The module emphasises slowing down reactions, holding emotional space, and supporting children to experience discomfort without being overwhelmed by it—building true emotional endurance over time.
Module 4: Growth Mindset in Action
This module brings resilience to life through intentional everyday practice. Educators will explore how language, environment, and pedagogy work together to embed a growth mindset culture where effort, curiosity, mistakes, and challenge are seen as essential parts of learning.
Participants will learn how to model persistence, reframe setbacks, and encourage children to embrace “not yet” thinking. The module also explores how learning environments can be intentionally designed to invite exploration, independence, and problem-solving—supporting children to see themselves as capable learners who can grow through experience.
Module 5: Resilience & Positive Behaviour
This module explores the powerful connection between resilience and positive behaviour in early childhood settings. Educators will learn how a child’s capacity to cope, persist, and regulate emotions directly influences their behaviour, relationships, and engagement in learning.
Rather than viewing behaviour in isolation, this module reframes it through a resilience lens—helping educators understand that behaviour is often an expression of a child’s emotional capacity in that moment. Practical strategies are shared to support children in developing self-regulation, problem-solving skills, and emotional endurance, while reducing reliance on reactive or punitive approaches.
Educators will also explore how consistent expectations, supportive relationships, and intentional teaching build internal resilience, leading to more positive, connected, and confident behaviour over time.
