Stronger Leaders for Stronger Teams 2 x "Live" Online workshop series with Sandi Phoenix 

Session 1: Tuesday 27th October 6pm to 7.30pm aest

Session 2: Tuesday 3rd November 6pm to 7.30pm aest

What does it really mean to lead well? To support the people in your care to grow, feel capable, and do their best work?

Strong Leaders, Stronger Teams explores leadership as a deeply personal, needs-informed practice. Facilitated by Sandi Phoenix, this course draws on leadership research and literature, positive psychology, contemporary neuroscience and the Phoenix Cups Framework to unpack how leadership styles, unmet needs and wellbeing shape the way teams communicate, function and thrive.

Strong Leaders Community of Practice | Term 1 2027

Course opens: 12th January 

Live webinars with Sandi Phoenix: Tuesday 2 February & Tuesday 16 February, 6pm AEST

Community of Practice: Five live online sessions, 9 February to 16 March

What if leadership development didn’t stop when the course finished?

The Strong Leaders Community of Practice brings Strong Leaders for Stronger Teams into practice. Across one term, your leadership team will learn alongside leaders from other services through the online course, live webinars with Sandi Phoenix and facilitated Community of Practice sessions.

One term. Your whole leadership team. A network of leaders carrying the same weight.

Strong Leaders Community of Practice | Term 2 2027

Course opens: Tuesday 30 March

Live webinars with Sandi Phoenix: Tuesday 13 April & Tuesday 27 April, 6pm AEST

Community of Practice: Five live online sessions, 20 April to 15 June

What if leadership development didn’t stop when the course finished?

The Strong Leaders Community of Practice brings Strong Leaders for Stronger Teams into practice. Across one term, your leadership team will learn alongside leaders from other services through the online course, live webinars with Sandi Phoenix and facilitated Community of Practice sessions.

One term. Your whole leadership team. A network of leaders carrying the same weight.

Strong Leaders Community of Practice | Term 3 2027

Course opens: Tuesday 22 June

Live webinars with Sandi Phoenix: Tuesday 13 July & Tuesday 27 July, 6pm AEST

Community of Practice: Five live online sessions, 20 July to 14 September

What if leadership development didn’t stop when the course finished?

The Strong Leaders Community of Practice brings Strong Leaders for Stronger Teams into practice. Across one term, your leadership team will learn alongside leaders from other services through the online course, live webinars with Sandi Phoenix and facilitated Community of Practice sessions.

One term. Your whole leadership team. A network of leaders carrying the same weight.

Strong Leaders Community of Practice | Term 4 2027

Course opens: Tuesday 14 September

Live webinars with Sandi Phoenix: Tuesday 5 October & Tuesday 19 October, 6pm AEST

Community of Practice: Five live online sessions, 12 October to 7 December

What if leadership development didn’t stop when the course finished?

The Strong Leaders Community of Practice brings Strong Leaders for Stronger Teams into practice. Across one term, your leadership team will learn alongside leaders from other services through the online course, live webinars with Sandi Phoenix and facilitated Community of Practice sessions.

One term. Your whole leadership team. A network of leaders carrying the same weight.

Supervision: Because safety doesn't just happen with Briana Thorne

Wednesday 17th November 2026 6.30pm to 7.30pm AEST  Live online Webinar 

 This webinar supports educators across education and care settings to strengthen and elevate their supervision practice. Blending theory with practical, real-world strategies, the program breaks down what effective supervision truly involves, how to plan for supervision in dynamic environments, and how legal requirements are applied in everyday practice.

Educators build a clear understanding of supervision responsibilities within Australian legislation and approved frameworks, and explore how thoughtful, responsive supervision supports children and young people’s safety, wellbeing and participation. Through interactive discussion and workshopping, participants develop confidence to create safe, engaging environments where children and young people can explore, take appropriate risks and thrive.

REGISTER HERE!

Rethinking Transitions in School Age Care with Annette Johnson.  

Supporting regulation, agency and belonging through everyday moments

Wednesday 11th November 2026 6.30pm to 7.30pm AEST  Live online Webinar 

 Transitions are some of the most frequent and most emotionally charged moments in School Age Care. Moving from school to OSHC, between activities, indoors to outdoors, or toward pick up can place significant demands on children and young people’s nervous systems, sense of safety, and autonomy. 

Rethinking Transitions in School Age Care invites educators to slow down and look more closely at what is happening beneath the surface during these everyday moments. Rather than viewing transitions as logistical tasks to manage, this course reframes them as relational opportunities to build regulation, trust, agency, and belonging. 

REGISTER HERE!

Ready in Every Sense

Wednesday 4th November 2026 6.30pm to 7.30pm AEST  Live online Webinar 

Every year, educators are asked the same question by families: is my child ready? Too often the answer gets reduced to letters, numbers and sitting still. 

This live online webinar offers a different frame. Angie from Phoenix Support for Educators explores transition to school as a wellbeing question first, grounded in humanistic psychology, Choice Theory and Self Determination Theory, and anchored in the National Quality Framework. 

Together we look at dispositions for learning and how to plan for them, how to tailor transition practices to the children actually in front of you rather than a generic checklist, and how to talk confidently with families and school colleagues about what you are doing and why. You will leave with language, evidence and practical next steps you can use in your service this term.

REGISTER HERE!

Live "FREE" Online Webinar: Resourcing Play for Wellbeing with The Phoenix Five: How five Australian animals and a treehouse teach children the language of their needs

Tuesday 28th October 2026 | 6:30pm–7:00pm AEST | Online via Zoom | Free

Most of us have a feelings chart on the wall. But what about the need sitting underneath the feeling? What if we've been starting one step too late?

Join Sandi Phoenix, creator of the Phoenix Cups® Framework and co-author of The Phoenix Five, in conversation with Danny from Bellbird Resources. Together they'll explore what it means to resource play for wellbeing, why needs come before emotions, and how The Phoenix Five Playspace can turn the environment you already have into a place where children learn the language of Safety, Connection, Freedom, Mastery and Fun. Thirty minutes of conversation, ten minutes of your questions, and ideas you can utilise straight away. 

REGISTER HERE!

Fostering Children's Wellbeing in Action 

Saturday 17th October 2026

Join us for a full day of hands-on, nature-immersed learning with Briana Thorne, Linda Price, and Sarah Dobson from Phoenix Support for Educators. 

This is not a sit-down day. There are no classrooms. Just a day of hands-on connected learning, exploration and collegiality.

Fostering Children's Wellbeing in Action is a day of doing, of getting your hands into ideas, stepping outside, and walking away not just understanding why these approaches matter, but having genuinely lived them. You will explore the Phoenix Cups Framework through the lens of real practice, in real nature, alongside a community of educators who care about getting this right. 

Come ready to play, reflect, connect, and leave inspired.