Workshops

We offer professional development workshops throughout Aotearoa and online to educators, allied health professionals, and those working in the trauma arena. These tools are applicable across diverse populations and age groups. We can adapt the workshops to your team’s specific needs.
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Professional Development Workshops

Managing Trauma & Anxiety at School

Develop a kete of simple tools that you can use tomorrow to support your students with high anxiety. Have fun and build your confidence in using sound rhythm and movement to support students to work together, manage themselves, and relate to others.

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Calm Connection in Early Childhood

Gain simple and practical tools for a calm, connected classroom. Understand the impact of sound, rhythm and movement on early childhood development, all within a fun, team-building workshop that is tailored to your centre.

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Creative Tools for Working With Diverse Needs

Learn how to recognise overstimulation, and develop tools to co-regulate, connect and redirect. Three modules cover behaviour as communication, sensory balance for kaimahi (workers) and clients, and regulation ‘first aid’ to support people who’ve experienced medical/family/incident trauma.

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Upcoming Zoom Workshops

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Products and Resources

Resilience and Calm Connection Video Library - lifetime access

Resilience and Calm Connection Video Library - lifetime access

A resilience and calm connection video library for whānau, communities and individuals living through isolation, Covid stress, and anxiety. Your subscription gives you printable PDFs with live links to ‘first aid’ movement and music videos to support calm connection and relational wellbeing.

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8 Leg Octaband

8 Leg Octaband

Created by Dance Movement Therapist Donna Newman-Bluestein, the Octaband® is a playful, interactive tool for increasing one’s sense of belonging and connection through movement. Perfect for 2 to 8 people, this Octaband comes in both classic and velvet!

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16 Leg Octaband® - Velvet or Classic

16 Leg Octaband® - Velvet or Classic

Created by Dance Movement Therapist Donna Newman-Bluestein, the Octaband® is a playful, interactive tool for increasing one’s sense of belonging and connection through movement. Perfect for 4 to 16 people, this Octaband comes in both classic and velvet!

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