Many teachers in our curriculum-focused and curriculum-overloaded school system are yearning to connect back to why they’re in the job in the first place – for the children. They are seeking to be better able to facilitate a whole-child approach, but don’t know where to begin with so many competing demands on their classroom time and energy.

Join us for this Professional Development accredited training program designed to support teachers in the classroom to consider the whole child, and to learn to read symptoms, behaviours and learning blocks differently to how you may perceive them currently.

This professional development day offers practical tools to use in the classroom and gives you greater insight into the interactions that you have with children. When educators become aware of the invisible and energetic exchanges that occur between the child and their world: and how these inform and affect each other in school and beyond, they can shift the way they relate with children. Transformative learning happens when teachers can quickly identify the children’s needs and set about to find the support needed to meet them in a simple way. A variety of common childhood classroom challenges are framed within the Foundational Needs Model, incorporating the whole self - embracing body, mind and spirit - based upon many years of research and clinical experiences where Maxine has noticed patterns emerge over time. The model helps teachers appreciate when a child’s particular needs are unmet that the child will respond to the learning environment in a variety of ways. This professional development offers a new way of attuning with the children in your class and allows you to identify any blocks to learning and socialising.

Uniquely, the day will also support your own inner enquiry that allows for a deeper self-understanding, which of course further benefits the children entrusted to your care. Even as teachers of other people’s children, if we ourselves were limited or held back in our own childhoods, we may still carry these limitations forward and in effect to every child we interact with. The Foundational Needs Model encourages more affirmative ways of being in the world that will support you immensely to know yourself more deeply both personally and professionally.

With increasing focus in the workplace and world, on adult emotional intelligence, Maxine’s work offers insights into the underlying blocks to high EQ, and offers guidance as to the practicalities and tools to build EQ as teachers.