Flying Start Pre-School Boost

Connected Self is a proud to be an approved provider on the menu for the Flying Start 3-year-old preschool boost. 

The Flying Start Pre-School Boost program is a program funded by the South Australian Government, designed to address developmental vulnerabilities by funding supports tailored to pre-school children, their families and their communities.

This includes funding to promote access to allied health professionals, group programs for children, family and parenting programs and upskilling for teachers, educators and leaders. This includes:

  • Leadership and coaching support
  • Child-centred supports and group services
  • Parenting and family support services
  • Educator upskilling and knowledge building
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Available Services

Connected Self is an approved provider on the menu for the Flying Start 3-year old school boost program. At present, our services available through the program are:

Creating and sustaining strong, meaningful connections between you and your child.
This training is designed to help parents and caregivers to deepen their understanding of children’s behaviour through a neuroscience perspective, providing tools and strategies to enhance their bond and sustain a healthy relationship along the way.

Outcomes

    • Understand why your child behaves the way they do: develop an understanding of how the brain affects behaviour, why kids can seem out of control and how past experieces shape reaction.
    • Learn practical strategies for responding to your child’s behaviour: build skills in repairing relationships after conflict, practicing positive interactions and staying calm and connected.

Duration

4 hours, delivered in 2 x 2-hour sessions online or face-to-face.

Trauma Responsive Practice

For professionals

 

Empowering individuals, business and organisations to respond with compassion and care.
Our flagship and most sought-after offering, this training offers a deep dive into the core principles of a trauma-responsive environment, empowering participants with the tools to recognise and respond to trauma in their professional settings.

Our Trauma Responsive Trainings & Workshops are designed to equip professionals, leaders, and teams from a variety of backgrounds with the skills and knowledge to foster regulation, resilience, safety, and growth.

Outcomes

    • Build trauma-responsiveness in everyday contexts
    • Develop strategies to support individuals with past or current trauma experiences
    • Strengthen relationships through a compassionate and understanding approach
    • Encourage a systems-approach to addressing trauma in organisations

Duration

Two full days, or offered as:

    • 4 x half days
    • 6 x 2-hour modules

Reflective Practice

For parents & caregivers

 

These workshops use real-life scenarios, case studies, and group discussions to help parents and carers apply their learning and explore shared experiences in a supportive environment.   

Side-by-Side Coaching and Mentoring

For professionals

 

During observation, coaching and reflective practice sessions, you are given the opportunity to work directly with children alongside Connected Self facilitators, where appropriate. Trauma responsive practice is role modelled in the real-world setting, supporting you to make the transition from theory to practice. This also provides opportunities for you to reflect on your approach with Connected Self facilitators to identify areas for future growth and practice refinement.  

You can find the full range of services available through the program here.

To learn more about our Flying Start Pre-School Boost programs, or to book a program, please email training@connectedself.com.au.

Polyvagal Practices

Polyvagal practices aim to enhance physiological regulation, restore a sense of safety, and promote engagement through autonomic nervous system regulation.

This enhances social and emotional learning, including recognising and regulating emotions (from a physiological lens) and developing empathy for others.

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PACE

Developed as part of attachment-focused family therapy, PACE is a trauma-informed approach aiming to create safe, trusting, emotionally connected relationships with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma or attachment difficulties. PACE stands for:

Playfulness

  • Approaching with an open, ready, calm, relaxed and engaged attitude.
  • Not taking yourself/situations too seriously.
  • Diffusing difficult/tense situations.

Acceptance

  • Unconditionally accepting the current state/mood/behaviour.
  • Accepting that there are things unseen that lie below behaviour.
  • Acceptance supports feeling secure, safe and loved

Curiosity

  • Understanding the child gently and without judgement.
  • Supporting child to bring awareness to their inner life.
  • Wondering statements.

Empathy

  • A sense of compassion and understanding for young person’s feelings and thoughts.

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Expression of experience when words are not enough

Art Therapy does not rely on verbal language. It is a therapeutic approach that provides many different mediums for communication. It is a useful mechanism when clients may not yet have the language to express their experiences.

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Contain difficult feelings and build tolerance

Art making holds or contains the difficult feelings allowing them to be felt and experienced gradually – building tolerance to discomfort.

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