• Tailoured Face-to-Face Professional Development

    STEPPING STONES offers tailoured, face-to-face professional development that is built around your service goals, team context, and everyday practice. We don’t deliver generic workshops, we create learning experiences that respond directly to your educators, your environment, and your priorities.

    Bring STEPPING STONES to Your Team

    Available throughout Australia and Canada

    Face-to-face professional learning
    Private virtual workshops
    Leadership development
    Conference and professional-development days
    Multi-service organisational training

    Built Around Your Goals

    We take the time to understand your service context, current challenges, and team dynamics — grounding every session in the Connect – Regulate – Guide – Reflect Framework. This allows us to design professional learning that is relevant, meaningful, and immediately applicable, not abstract or one-size-fits-all.

    Research-Informed. Practice-Ready.

    Our face-to-face training is grounded in evidence, shaped by real-world early childhood practice, and delivered through the Connect – Regulate – Guide – Reflect Framework. Educators leave with a clear understanding of why practice matters and how to apply it confidently in their day-to-day work.

    This is learning designed to strengthen pedagogy, not add to workload.

    Flexible and Collaborative Delivery

    Our face-to-face sessions are designed to work within the realities of early learning services, grounded in the Connect – Regulate – Guide – Reflect Framework. We collaborate with you to determine the most effective format — from staff meetings and in-service days to leadership sessions and whole-team professional learning.

    Every session is shaped with intention, not delivered off the shelf.

    Led by People Who Know the Sector

    STEPPING STONES professional learning is facilitated by experienced early childhood practitioners who understand the complexities of the sector. Our facilitators bring deep pedagogical knowledge, lived experience, and a commitment to creating learning spaces that feel safe, reflective, and professionally challenging — all grounded in the Connect – Regulate – Guide – Reflect Framework.

    We support educators to think deeply, reflect honestly, and build confidence in their practice.

  • Planning professional learning for 2027?

    Talk with Janine about your organisation's priorities.

  • Additional cost for 50km outside of Newcastle NSW.

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    Weekend Training

    Book your training for a Saturday or Sunday.


    This can be conducted face to face or Virtually.

    Travel costs for face-to-face will be added for centres 50kms outside of the Newcastle area.

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    4-Hour Face-to-Face Intensive

    Are challenging behaviours and inconsistent educator responses impacting your team?

    Understanding behaviour is one thing. Knowing how to respond with confidence, connection and consistency is another.

    This interactive intensive takes your team beyond theory, exploring the connection between brain development, emotional regulation and children's behaviours.

    Through practical discussions, real-life scenarios and collaborative learning, educators will strengthen their understanding of the 8 Stages of Dysregulation and explore how their responses influence children's experiences.

    Your team will:

    • Develop a deeper understanding of what drives children's behaviours.
    • Build confidence in responding to emotional dysregulation.
    • Explore real challenges experienced within your service.
    • Strengthen consistency in educator responses and communication.
    • Work together towards practical, sustainable changes in everyday practice.

    Travel costs for face-to-face will be added for centres 50kms outside of the Newcastle area.

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    4 hour Weekend Blended workshops

    Creating Meaningful Environments: From Inspiring Setups to Real Curriculum

    Are your learning environments truly supporting children's development, or simply looking inviting?

    Explore the EYLF V2.0 and Alberta's Flight Framework, four theoretical perspectives, and how intentional learning setups support children's development.

    Through two interactive activities, educators will:

    • Connect theory to meaningful learning experiences.
    • Explore our five-part Environmental Audit Checklist.
    • Work in small groups to create inspiring setups using hands-on resources.
    • Reflect on how materials, sensory experiences and schematic play extend children's learning.

    Includes practical resources, Environmental Audit Checklist and certificates of participation.

    Travel costs for face-to-face will be added for centres 50kms outside of the Newcastle area.

  • Let’s design PD that meets the needs of your team

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