Trauma Informed Foundational Music Skills Training for Early Educators

Feel uncertain about using music in your early learning space? You're not alone. Many educators love the idea of music but feel unsure where to start — or worry they're "not musical enough."

This training changes that.

Based on the innovative CARRM program and developed by Registered Music Therapist and Teacher Sarah Dunston, this full day hands-on professional learning workshop equips you with a toolbox of practical, evidence-based strategies to support children's social emotional learning that you can use in your teaching practice- right away.

This Training Covers:

· Current research on complex trauma and child brain development

· Simple and practical music and rhtyhm based strategies to support SEL and regulation.

· Activities include: singing, movement, clapstick play, parachute play, body percussion, storytelling and sensory instruments

· Opening and closing Talking Circles for reflection, calibration and connection

Perfect For:

· Early childhood educators seeking practical and creative social-emotional learning strategies

· Services supporting children who have experienced trauma

· Teams wanting to adopt a trauma-informed framework into practice that also aspires to be culturally safe and First Nations focused

· Educators preparing children for school transition

About Your Facilitator: Sarah Dunston brings 12+ years of experience as a Registered Music Therapist and Teacher. She developed her ECT professional learning programs as a result of her current HDR research studies through Griffith University's Creative Arts Research Institute as well as throguh her work at Act for Kids — running music therapy programs for young children impacted by abuse and neglect. Sarah has presented this work at conferences in Australia and internationally, including the C&K Early Childhood Education Conference and the Trauma Aware Education Conference.

Kindy UPLift Approved Melodica Music Therapy is an official Kindy UPLift supplier, meeting criteria for Social/Emotional Capability and Access/Inclusion priority areas.

They are also positioned to provide training reflective of the shift in The Australian Early Years Learning Framework from "cultural competence" to "cultural responsiveness" (Australian Education and Care Quality, 2024)

This event is catered (light lunch, tea and coffee provided).

Please advise of dietry requirements when booking.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Chermside Library, 375 Hamilton Road, Chermside, Australia

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