The Secure and Resilient Child
The Secure & Resilient Child
Building Emotional Security, Confidence & Lifelong Resilience
Professional Development Course for Educators
Monday 24th August 2026
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Western Australia
Tuesday 25th August 2026
6:30pm - 8:30pm - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
6:00pm - 8:00pm - South Australia, Northern Territory
INDIVIDUAL - $129
TEAM - $599
Team is for an Individual Early Learning Team
Overview
This inspiring and psychology-informed course explores how secure relationships, emotionally safe environments, and intentional educator practice lay the foundation for resilience in early childhood. Grounded in attachment theory, developmental psychology, and positive psychology, educators will discover practical strategies to foster emotional security, confidence, independence, and resilience through everyday interactions, play, and relationships.
What Educators Will Learn
Module 1: Understanding Attachment & Emotional Security
Educators will explore the foundations of attachment theory and why secure, responsive relationships are the cornerstone of healthy child development.
Topics include:
Module 2: Understanding Resilience in Early Childhood
This module explores how resilience develops through everyday experiences, supportive relationships, and opportunities to overcome challenges.
Topics include:
Module 3: Brain Development, Stress & Emotional Regulation
Educators will discover how early experiences shape brain development and learn strategies to support children experiencing stress and big emotions.
Topics include:
Module 4: Behaviour Through a Relationship Lens
This module reframes behaviour as communication, helping educators understand the emotional needs that often sit beneath challenging behaviours.
Topics include:
Module 5: Building Confidence, Self-Worth & Independence
Educators will explore how everyday interactions shape children's developing identity and belief in themselves.
Topics include:
Module 6: Creating Emotionally Safe Learning Environments
Participants will learn how routines, environments, and intentional teaching contribute to children's sense of security and wellbeing.
Topics include:
Module 7: Partnering with Families to Support Security & Resilience
Strong partnerships between educators and families provide consistency and strengthen children's emotional wellbeing.
Topics include:
Module 8: Embedding Secure & Resilient Practice Every Day
The final module brings the course together by helping educators intentionally embed secure, resilience-focused practices across every aspect of the learning environment.
Topics include:
Final Reflection
When children feel safe, valued, and supported to explore, they take risks, and overcome challenges. By intentionally fostering emotional security and resilience through relationships, environments, and everyday interactions, educators play a powerful role in shaping confident, capable, and emotionally healthy learners who are equipped to thrive both now and into the future.
Building Emotional Security, Confidence & Lifelong Resilience
Professional Development Course for Educators
Monday 24th August 2026
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Western Australia
Tuesday 25th August 2026
6:30pm - 8:30pm - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
6:00pm - 8:00pm - South Australia, Northern Territory
INDIVIDUAL - $129
TEAM - $599
Team is for an Individual Early Learning Team
Overview
This inspiring and psychology-informed course explores how secure relationships, emotionally safe environments, and intentional educator practice lay the foundation for resilience in early childhood. Grounded in attachment theory, developmental psychology, and positive psychology, educators will discover practical strategies to foster emotional security, confidence, independence, and resilience through everyday interactions, play, and relationships.
What Educators Will Learn
- Understand the relationship between attachment, emotional security, and resilience
- Explore how secure relationships shape children's brain development, wellbeing, and behaviour
- Recognise the protective factors that help children develop resilience
- Respond to behaviour through a relationship-based and strengths-focused approach
- Build children's confidence, self-worth, and emotional regulation
- Foster independence, problem-solving, and perseverance through everyday experiences
- Create emotionally safe environments that promote belonging and wellbeing
- Embed resilience-building strategies into routines, play, and intentional teaching
- Strengthen partnerships with families to support children's emotional development
- Reflect on practice to intentionally nurture secure, confident, and resilient children
Module 1: Understanding Attachment & Emotional Security
Educators will explore the foundations of attachment theory and why secure, responsive relationships are the cornerstone of healthy child development.
Topics include:
- Bowlby's Attachment Theory
- Ainsworth's attachment styles
- The educator as a secure base
- Emotional safety and belonging
- Why relationships come before learning
Module 2: Understanding Resilience in Early Childhood
This module explores how resilience develops through everyday experiences, supportive relationships, and opportunities to overcome challenges.
Topics include:
- What resilience really means
- Protective and risk factors
- Why resilience can be developed
- Confidence, optimism, and perseverance
- Resilience through connection
Module 3: Brain Development, Stress & Emotional Regulation
Educators will discover how early experiences shape brain development and learn strategies to support children experiencing stress and big emotions.
Topics include:
- The developing brain
- Stress responses in young children
- Co-regulation before self-regulation
- Emotional literacy
- Supporting children during dysregulation
Module 4: Behaviour Through a Relationship Lens
This module reframes behaviour as communication, helping educators understand the emotional needs that often sit beneath challenging behaviours.
Topics include:
- Behaviour as communication
- Looking beyond the behaviour
- Connection before correction
- Responding with empathy
- Building trust through everyday interactions
Module 5: Building Confidence, Self-Worth & Independence
Educators will explore how everyday interactions shape children's developing identity and belief in themselves.
Topics include:
- Encouraging autonomy
- Supporting healthy risk-taking
- Growth mindset language
- Celebrating effort and persistence
- Building competence through play
Module 6: Creating Emotionally Safe Learning Environments
Participants will learn how routines, environments, and intentional teaching contribute to children's sense of security and wellbeing.
Topics include:
- Predictable routines
- Calm, responsive environments
- The environment as the third teacher
- Smooth transitions
- Creating a culture of belonging
Module 7: Partnering with Families to Support Security & Resilience
Strong partnerships between educators and families provide consistency and strengthen children's emotional wellbeing.
Topics include:
- Building trusting relationships
- Communicating with empathy
- Supporting children through transitions
- Working together during challenges
- Creating consistency between home and the service
Module 8: Embedding Secure & Resilient Practice Every Day
The final module brings the course together by helping educators intentionally embed secure, resilience-focused practices across every aspect of the learning environment.
Topics include:
- Reflective practice
- Intentional teaching strategies
- Embedding resilience into play
- Action planning for continuous improvement
- Creating a psychologically informed approach to everyday practice
Final Reflection
When children feel safe, valued, and supported to explore, they take risks, and overcome challenges. By intentionally fostering emotional security and resilience through relationships, environments, and everyday interactions, educators play a powerful role in shaping confident, capable, and emotionally healthy learners who are equipped to thrive both now and into the future.
