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.
For early childhood, OSHC, family day care and school teams: online courses, plus workshops and coaching in your service.
Advocating for the delight of childhood, and supporting educational communities where everyone can thrive.
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.
For early childhood, OSHC, family day care and school teams: online courses, plus workshops and coaching in your service.
Advocating for the delight of childhood, and supporting educational communities where everyone can thrive.
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 PDEducator 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 wellbeingEducation and care practices
Strengthen curriculum, documentation, meaningful interactions, play-based learning and the look and feel of your learning spaces.
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 PDEducator 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 wellbeingEducation and care practices
Strengthen curriculum, documentation, meaningful interactions, play-based learning and the look and feel of your learning spaces.
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, so 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. Our team includes Dr Louise Porter, Behaviour Guidance Expert.
Meet the teamThe 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, so 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. Our team includes Dr Louise Porter, Behaviour Guidance Expert.
Meet the teamProfessional 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
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.
Explore coaching and mentoring
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
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 coursesProfessional 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
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.
Explore coaching and mentoring
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
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
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
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 shopHome 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.
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.
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.
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.
Online learning platform
Already learning with us?
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Online learning platform
Already learning with us?
Log in to your online courses and the supplementary resources for your in‑service PD.
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.
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.