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.

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.

Three support areas
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.
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.
Education and care practices
Strengthen curriculum, documentation, meaningful interactions, play-based learning and the look and feel of your learning spaces.
Three support areas
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.
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.
Education and care practices
Strengthen curriculum, documentation, meaningful interactions, play-based learning and the look and feel of your learning spaces.
Experienced facilitators
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.

Experienced facilitators
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.

Ways to learn
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.
Coaching and mentoring
Ongoing professional learning tailored to you or your team, from coaches with over 10 years in education and care.
Improvement continues from one session to the next.
Workshops
Workshops on behaviour, psychology, inclusion and wellbeing. Topics range 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.
Ways to learn
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.
Coaching and mentoring
Ongoing professional learning tailored to you or your team, from coaches with over 10 years in education and care.
Improvement continues from one session to the next.
Workshops
Workshops on behaviour, psychology, inclusion and wellbeing. Topics range 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.
Where funding applies
Funding that can support your PD
Your service may be able to use government funding for workshops, coaching and mentoring with us. Choose the funding that fits your service.
Victoria
School Readiness Funding
For Victorian kindergarten services and their educators.
Some of our programs are on the School Readiness Funding Menu.
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.
Australia-wide
Innovative Solutions Support
For early childhood services in every state and territory.
Part of the Australian Government’s Inclusion Support Program.
Where funding applies
Funding that can support your PD
Your service may be able to use government funding for workshops, coaching and mentoring with us. Choose the funding that fits your service.
Victoria
School Readiness Funding
For Victorian kindergarten services and their educators.
Some of our programs are on the School Readiness Funding Menu.
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.
Australia-wide
Innovative Solutions Support
For early childhood services in every state and territory.
Part of the Australian Government’s Inclusion Support Program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 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
Planning together
How we plan PD with your team
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1
Tell us about your team
Share who you work with, what is going well, and where you want support.
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2
We plan a program together
We shape the sessions around your team, your service, and the time you have.
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3
Your facilitator checks in again
Your facilitator checks in again on arrival, so each session builds on the last.
Planning together
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.
Start the conversation
Plan the next step for your team
Tell us about your team and we will plan a program together.
Online learning platform
Already learning with us?
Log in to your online courses and the supplementary resources for your in-service PD.
Start the conversation
Plan the next step for your team
Tell us about your team and we will plan a program together.
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.
