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In-service workshop
Creating a Culture of Wellbeing: a workshop for education and care teams
Part two of Educator Wellbeing: your team turns the Phoenix Cups® language into a shared plan for a workplace where everyone's needs are easier to meet.
Haven't done Educator Wellbeing yet? See the full-day option
Professional development›Workshops
In-service workshop
Creating a Culture of Wellbeing: a workshop for education and care teams
Part two of Educator Wellbeing: your team turns the Phoenix Cups® language into a shared plan for a workplace where everyone's needs are easier to meet.
Haven't done Educator Wellbeing yet? See the full-day option
The next step
From personal wellbeing to a shared culture
Your educators started with their own needs in Educator Wellbeing. In this workshop, they build a culture of wellbeing as a group.
A culture of wellbeing is an environment where the conditions make it easier for everyone to meet their needs.
Part one · Where your team started
Educator Wellbeing
- ✓Recognise their own needs
- ✓Notice the needs of the people they work with
- ✓Challenge unhelpful thinking
Part two · This workshop
Creating a Culture of Wellbeing
- ✓Name the strengths each person brings
- ✓Choose the team's priorities
- ✓Write a plan in their own words
The next step
From personal wellbeing to a shared culture
Your educators started with their own needs in Educator Wellbeing. In this workshop, they build a culture of wellbeing as a group.
A culture of wellbeing is an environment where the conditions make it easier for everyone to meet their needs.
Part one · Where your team started
Educator Wellbeing
- ✓Recognise their own needs
- ✓Notice the needs of the people they work with
- ✓Challenge unhelpful thinking
Part two · This workshop
Creating a Culture of Wellbeing
- ✓Name the strengths each person brings
- ✓Choose the team's priorities
- ✓Write a plan in their own words
On the day
How your team builds its culture of wellbeing
Your team moves through four stages, each building on the Cups language your educators already share.
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1
Wellbeing as everyone's responsibility
Is wellbeing up to each person, or up to the workplace? Your team explores why it is both at once, and the part everyone plays.
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2
What fills each Cup here
Educators map what fills their own Cups. Then they look at what would make those Cups easier to fill at your service, and where the workplace gets in the way.
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3
The strengths in the room
With the Team Cups Strength Puzzle, each person names their strengths and the Cups they come from. Together, those differences show your team's collective capacity.
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4
A plan in your own words
Your team chooses what they most want to see first, and sorts the Cups each person can fill alone from those that need the group. Then they agree on one action for each Cup.
After the workshop, your team can
- ✓Say what a culture of wellbeing means at your service
- ✓Name what makes each Cup easier or harder to fill at work
- ✓Work towards priorities the whole team chose
- ✓Carry out one agreed action for each of the five Cups
- ✓Draw on one another's strengths
For leaders: reflection questions on which Cups your culture makes easy or hard to fill, and what your own practice models to the team.
On the day
How your team builds its culture of wellbeing
Your team moves through four stages, each building on the Cups language your educators already share.
-
1
Wellbeing as everyone's responsibility
Is wellbeing up to each person, or up to the workplace? Your team explores why it is both at once, and the part everyone plays.
-
2
What fills each Cup here
Educators map what fills their own Cups. Then they look at what would make those Cups easier to fill at your service, and where the workplace gets in the way.
-
3
The strengths in the room
With the Team Cups Strength Puzzle, each person names their strengths and the Cups they come from. Together, those differences show your team's collective capacity.
-
4
A plan in your own words
Your team chooses what they most want to see first, and sorts the Cups each person can fill alone from those that need the group. Then they agree on one action for each Cup.
After the workshop, your team can
- ✓Say what a culture of wellbeing means at your service
- ✓Name what makes each Cup easier or harder to fill at work
- ✓Work towards priorities the whole team chose
- ✓Carry out one agreed action for each of the five Cups
- ✓Draw on one another's strengths
For leaders: reflection questions on which Cups your culture makes easy or hard to fill, and what your own practice models to the team.
Booking options
Choose the format that suits your team
For teams who've done Educator Wellbeing
Creating a Culture of Wellbeing
Your team picks up where part one left off and leaves with a plan it wrote together.
For any service, new to us or not
The full day: both workshops
Your team spends the morning in Educator Wellbeing and the afternoon writing its plan. You can run it on a Saturday or a centre closure day.
The details
Who attends
Your whole team, educators and leaders together
Length
2 to 2.5 hours, as an evening session or a half day, shaped to what your service needs
Where
In person at your service, anywhere in Australia, or as a live Zoom session
Facilitator
Christopher Phoenix
Investment
A fixed rate, plus GST and any travel costs, quoted on request
Funding
Eligible Queensland services can use Kindy Uplift funding in 2026
How booking works
From enquiry to workshop day
Send an enquiry
Use our contact form to tell us your location, team size and preferred dates.
Get your quote
We send a quote and Chris's available dates.
Workshop day
Chris works with your team in person at your service, or live on Zoom.
Booking options
Choose the format that suits your team
For teams who've done Educator Wellbeing
Creating a Culture of Wellbeing
Your team picks up where part one left off and leaves with a plan it wrote together.
For any service, new to us or not
The full day: both workshops
Your team spends the morning in Educator Wellbeing and the afternoon writing its plan. You can run it on a Saturday or a centre closure day.
The details
Who attends
Your whole team, educators and leaders together
Length
2 to 2.5 hours, as an evening session or a half day, shaped to what your service needs
Where
In person at your service, anywhere in Australia, or as a live Zoom session
Facilitator
Christopher Phoenix
Investment
A fixed rate, plus GST and any travel costs, quoted on request
Funding
Eligible Queensland services can use Kindy Uplift funding in 2026
How booking works
From enquiry to workshop day
Send an enquiry
Use our contact form to tell us your location, team size and preferred dates.
Get your quote
We send a quote and Chris's available dates.
Workshop day
Chris works with your team in person at your service, or live on Zoom.
The thinking
Grounded in psychology and philosophy
The plan your team builds rests on ideas with a long history in psychology and philosophy, translated for the education and care workplace.
The Phoenix Cups Framework
Founded by Sandi Phoenix in 2012. The five Cups stand for basic human needs: Safety, Connection, Freedom, Mastery and Fun. Your team uses them as a shared language for what your workplace makes easy, or hard, to fill.
Self-Determination Theory
Ryan and Deci's Self-Determination Theory of human motivation is one of the bodies of research the Phoenix Cups draws together.
Practical philosophy
Chris draws on Aristotle, Heidegger and Sartre to explore wellbeing as something people create together, at work and beyond.
Your facilitator: Christopher Phoenix
Chris is a PhD candidate and co-authored The Phoenix Cups: A Cup Filling Story with Sandi Phoenix, broadening the framework through psychology and philosophy. He brings that thinking into the room with humour and storytelling, so the big ideas stay practical.
Want to go deeper first? Read Chris's article, Creating a Culture of Wellbeing.
The thinking
Grounded in psychology and philosophy
The plan your team builds rests on ideas with a long history in psychology and philosophy, translated for the education and care workplace.
The Phoenix Cups Framework
Founded by Sandi Phoenix in 2012. The five Cups stand for basic human needs: Safety, Connection, Freedom, Mastery and Fun. Your team uses them as a shared language for what your workplace makes easy, or hard, to fill.
Self-Determination Theory
Ryan and Deci's Self-Determination Theory of human motivation is one of the bodies of research the Phoenix Cups draws together.
Practical philosophy
Chris draws on Aristotle, Heidegger and Sartre to explore wellbeing as something people create together, at work and beyond.
Your facilitator: Christopher Phoenix
Chris is a PhD candidate and co-authored The Phoenix Cups: A Cup Filling Story with Sandi Phoenix, broadening the framework through psychology and philosophy. He brings that thinking into the room with humour and storytelling, so the big ideas stay practical.
Want to go deeper first? Read Chris's article, Creating a Culture of Wellbeing.
Quality Areas 4 and 7
NQS alignment
Mapping this workshop to your Quality Improvement Plan? It supports practice in these parts of the National Quality Standard, and in one Queensland Kindy Uplift priority area. Open each one for the details.
Quality Area 4: Staffing arrangements
Element 4.2.1Professional collaboration
Management, educators and staff work with mutual respect and collaboratively, and challenge and learn from each other, recognising each other's strengths and skills.
Quality Area 7: Governance and leadership
Standard 7.2Leadership
Effective leadership builds and promotes a positive organisational culture and professional learning community.
Element 7.2.1Continuous improvement
There is an effective self-assessment and quality improvement process in place.
Kindy Uplift priority area (Queensland)
Priority area 2Social and emotional learning
How this workshop connects
Your team practises noticing needs and emotions, their own and their colleagues', at work. That understanding supports educators as they guide children's social and emotional learning.
In 2026, Kindy Uplift is available to Queensland services that obtained Kindergarten Program Provider approval before 30 September 2025 and take part in Free Kindy. It can fund professional development that builds teacher and educator capability, and your planning must be reflected in your Quality Improvement Plan or other service documentation. Read the Kindy Uplift program details on the Queensland Government site.
Quality Areas 4 and 7
NQS alignment
Mapping this workshop to your Quality Improvement Plan? It supports practice in these parts of the National Quality Standard, and in one Queensland Kindy Uplift priority area. Open each one for the details.
Quality Area 4: Staffing arrangements
Element 4.2.1Professional collaboration
Management, educators and staff work with mutual respect and collaboratively, and challenge and learn from each other, recognising each other's strengths and skills.
Quality Area 7: Governance and leadership
Standard 7.2Leadership
Effective leadership builds and promotes a positive organisational culture and professional learning community.
Element 7.2.1Continuous improvement
There is an effective self-assessment and quality improvement process in place.
Kindy Uplift priority area (Queensland)
Priority area 2Social and emotional learning
How this workshop connects
Your team practises noticing needs and emotions, their own and their colleagues', at work. That understanding supports educators as they guide children's social and emotional learning.
In 2026, Kindy Uplift is available to Queensland services that obtained Kindergarten Program Provider approval before 30 September 2025 and take part in Free Kindy. It can fund professional development that builds teacher and educator capability, and your planning must be reflected in your Quality Improvement Plan or other service documentation. Read the Kindy Uplift program details on the Queensland Government site.
Before you book
Frequently asked questions
Can we book this if our team hasn't done Educator Wellbeing?
Yes, as the full day. Educator Wellbeing in the morning gives your team the Cups language they use to write their plan in the afternoon.
Some of our team joined after we did Educator Wellbeing. Can they still take part?
Yes. Chris opens with a short recap of the Phoenix Cups, so newer educators can follow along. If they outnumber the people who were there, we recommend your team redoes Educator Wellbeing, on its own or as the full day.
Who should attend?
Your whole team, leaders included. The plan belongs to everyone who works at your service, and leaders get their own reflection questions on what your culture models.
How long is the workshop?
Usually 2 to 2.5 hours, run as an evening session or a half day. We can shorten or extend it to suit your service, and extra time gives your team more room to work on its plan.
Where is the workshop held?
In person at your service, anywhere in Australia, or as a live Zoom session.
Can we use Kindy Uplift funding?
Yes, if your service is eligible. In 2026, that covers Queensland services with Kindergarten Program Provider approval before 30 September 2025 that take part in Free Kindy. Services have funded this workshop through it before.
How much does it cost?
The workshop has a fixed rate, plus GST and any travel costs. Every quote is prepared for your service's location.
Looking for a different topic? See all our workshops.
Before you book
Frequently asked questions
Can we book this if our team hasn't done Educator Wellbeing?
Yes, as the full day. Educator Wellbeing in the morning gives your team the Cups language they use to write their plan in the afternoon.
Some of our team joined after we did Educator Wellbeing. Can they still take part?
Yes. Chris opens with a short recap of the Phoenix Cups, so newer educators can follow along. If they outnumber the people who were there, we recommend your team redoes Educator Wellbeing, on its own or as the full day.
Who should attend?
Your whole team, leaders included. The plan belongs to everyone who works at your service, and leaders get their own reflection questions on what your culture models.
How long is the workshop?
Usually 2 to 2.5 hours, run as an evening session or a half day. We can shorten or extend it to suit your service, and extra time gives your team more room to work on its plan.
Where is the workshop held?
In person at your service, anywhere in Australia, or as a live Zoom session.
Can we use Kindy Uplift funding?
Yes, if your service is eligible. In 2026, that covers Queensland services with Kindergarten Program Provider approval before 30 September 2025 that take part in Free Kindy. Services have funded this workshop through it before.
How much does it cost?
The workshop has a fixed rate, plus GST and any travel costs. Every quote is prepared for your service's location.
Looking for a different topic? See all our workshops.
Get in touch
Give your team a plan they wrote together
A single PD day can fade once the busy weeks return. A plan written by your whole team gives that learning somewhere to go.
Booking starts with an enquiry about your service and the dates that suit.
Get in touch
Give your team a plan they wrote together
A single PD day can fade once the busy weeks return. A plan written by your whole team gives that learning somewhere to go.
Booking starts with an enquiry about your service and the dates that suit.