Resources, Professional Development and Training for Educators
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 Australia-wide

Professional Development for Educators and Leaders in Education and Care

Guide children’s behaviour with confidence, look after your own wellbeing, and lift everyday practice across your team.

We deliver face-to-face nationally, in services, schools and at conferences, plus extensive self-paced online courses and live online delivery.

Advocating for the delight of childhood, and supporting educational communities where everyone can thrive.

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For early childhood and OSHC teamsFor family day care and school teamsOnline coursesWorkshops and coaching in your service

 Where we help

What we help your team with

Children’s behaviour and development

Understand the needs behind behaviour that challenges us, and build calm, relationship-based responses your whole team shares.

Our Educator Toolkit for Behaviour is available as a book, an online course and a full-day workshop.

Explore behaviour and development PD

Educator wellbeing

Look after your own wellbeing and build a workplace culture where your whole team can thrive.

Workshops, resources and wellbeing coaching for educators and educational leaders.

Explore educator wellbeing

Education and care practices

Strengthen curriculum, documentation, meaningful interactions, play-based learning and the look and feel of your learning spaces.

Explore courses and resources

 Our team

The people who work alongside your team

10+

years in the sector, for every facilitator

Your team learns from facilitators who know education and care from the inside. Every one of them has over 10 years in the sector and in-depth knowledge of the National Quality Framework.

Each facilitator is trained in the Phoenix Cups® framework, strength-based practice and solution-focussed methods. Your team hears one shared approach from whoever works with them.

What your team learns draws on the guidance approach, psychological science and contemporary neuroscience.

Meet the team

The Phoenix Support for Educators team of facilitators

Professional development that fits how your team learns

Choose ongoing coaching, in‑service workshops or self-paced online courses, or combine them into a plan for your service.

See our full range of professional development

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Coaching and mentoring

Ongoing professional learning tailored to you or your team, from coaches with over 10 years in education and care, so improvement continues from one session to the next.

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Workshops

Workshops on behaviour, psychology, inclusion and wellbeing, from children’s behaviour to how adults work together in teams. We can tailor a workshop to your service, and our facilitators travel to you.

See workshop topics
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Online courses

Work through each course at your own pace, join live sessions, download workbooks and track your progress on your own dashboard. Every course includes student support and an attendance certificate on completion.

Browse online courses

 Funding

Funding that can cover your team’s learning

Your service may be able to use government funding for workshops, coaching, and mentoring with us. Choose the funding that fits your service to see what it covers.

Victoria

School Readiness Funding

For Victorian kindergarten services and their educators. Some of our programs are on the School Readiness Funding Menu, and services receiving over $10,000 can spend up to 25% of their funding flexibly.

See SRF packages

Queensland

Kindy Uplift

For eligible Queensland kindergarten services, across six priority areas. Our Kindy Uplift page shows how our workshops and coaching connect to each one.

See Kindy Uplift programs

Australia-wide

Innovative Solutions Support

For early childhood services in every state and territory. Part of the Australian Government’s Inclusion Support Program, it can fund professional development, coaching, and mentoring that address barriers named in your Strategic Inclusion Plan.

See Innovative Solutions Support

Source: Queensland Government Kindy Uplift page (checked 18 October 2026) and Victorian Government School Readiness Funding page (updated 22 October 2026, checked 26 October 2026). Innovative Solutions Support sources are on that page.

Resources for educators

Tools for planning, reflection and play

Reflections of an Educator

Journals, planning diaries, program calendars and professional learning notebooks, designed for educators. Choose printable and digital PDFs or printed perpetual editions.

Explore Reflections of an Educator

The Phoenix Support shop

Books for educators and parents, children’s books, cards, play resources and Phoenix Cups mugs.

Visit the shop

Home of the Phoenix Cups®

A shared language for the needs behind behaviour

Imagine we could see the needs that motivate human behaviour. It would look like we each carry five Cups.

Safety Cup®Connection Cup®Freedom Cup®Mastery Cup®Fun Cup®

The Phoenix Cups framework began here at Phoenix Support for Educators in 2012, drawing on work across psychological science, neuroscience and education that goes back to 1998. Today it is used around the world in education and care, parenting, community services, mental health, leadership and more.

For your team, the Cups are the starting point. They give everyone the same language, so the deeper work that follows makes sense: trauma-informed practice, current neuroscience, inclusion and complex needs, wellbeing, leadership and curriculum.

If your team has already done the Phoenix Cups, you have the foundation in place. Our other programs build on it, and the framework keeps moving with the science.

 Proof in practice

What changed at Kinglake Ranges

Kinglake Ranges Children’s Centre embedded the Phoenix Cups® framework in its service philosophy, and moved from Meeting the NQS to Exceeding in all areas.

The Kinglake Ranges Children’s Centre logo over a child’s gumboots in a puddle

‘The team was fractured, combative and defensive. In 2023 we are cohesive, reflective and intentional in delivering the best possible education and care for children.’

Sue Bullock, Service Director

‘Paperwork will not change a life! I don’t care how good your documentation is. But a relationship will.’

Linda Price, Educational Leader and ECT

Plan PD for your team

 How it works

How we plan PD with your team

  1. Tell us about your team

    Share who you work with, what is going well, and where you want support.

  2. We plan a program together

    We shape the sessions around your team, your service, and the time you have.

  3. Your facilitator checks in again

    Your facilitator checks in again on arrival, so each session builds on the last.

Plan PD for your team

Online learning platform

Already learning with us?

Log in to your online courses and the supplementary resources for your in‑service PD.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Phoenix Support for Educators would like to acknowledge the Quandamooka People who are the Traditional and Historical Owners of the lands and Islands that our office resides on the Redlands Coast.

We would like to extend this acknowledgement to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples across Australia and recognise First Nations Peoples continued spiritual connection to culture, land, waterways, sky, Kinship and community.

We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging as they hold the knowledge, wisdom, histories, languages, stories, and ways of being for First Nations people and children’s cultural identities across these ancient lands.