The Regulated Educator: Breath, Presence and Practice.

Name: The Regulated Educator: Breath, Presence and Practice.
Start: 2026-07-06T08:30:00+10:00
End: 2026-07-06T08:30:00+10:00
Location: Koala Play School

About

FOR DIRECTORS AND THEIR TEAMS

You can feel it before you’ve even opened your eyes. Another text from an educator who isn’t coming in. The team member who keeps ending up in your office. The two staff who can’t quite work the same room anymore. And underneath it all, the compliance list that keeps growing.

You’re holding the service together, holding your team, holding yourself — and somewhere in there, you’re meant to be the calm one.

There’s so much conversation about regulated children, and rightly so. But children borrow their calm from the adults around them. And those adults are borrowing theirs from you.

So who is helping you keep your team regulated? And who is asking how you are?

This is the workshop where someone is asking.

ABOUT THE DAY

Through breath work, movement, mindfulness and honest conversation, your team will build a shared toolkit of practical tools they can use in real time — when a room is escalating, when a staff meeting runs hot, when the day has been too long, when someone simply needs a pause.

We’ll go into the science behind these practices, and unpack what makes sustaining them hard inside a busy service — finding realistic small moves that keep regulation alive in the moment, on the day, and across the week.

Self-regulation isn’t just about being calm. It’s about matching your energy, emotions and behaviours to the demands of the context — and giving educators a way to do that together, not alone.

WHAT YOUR TEAM WILL EXPERIENCE
• Practical, science-informed breath work that calms the nervous system in real time
• Mindfulness, movement, sensory and gratitude practices that work with adults and children alike
• A working understanding of the science behind stress and regulation
• A shared language for regulation that travels between rooms, between staff, and into conversations with families
• Honest conversation about what makes regulation hard to sustain, with realistic ways through

WHAT YOUR SERVICE WILL GAIN
• A team that can co-regulate one another — not only the children — so flashpoints settle faster
• A shared vocabulary for stress, capacity and reset, so educators can ask for what they need before reaching sick leave or walking out
• Practices simple enough to survive a busy week, so wellbeing becomes a rhythm rather than another initiative
• A noticeably calmer staffroom and a service culture where regulation is the rhythm rather than the rescue

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING

“I think you’ve provided a vital missing link that so many services would benefit from.”
— Michelle Stanley-Jones, Director · 20+ years in early childhood education

“Beautifully facilitated. Gentle, supportive, engaging and relevant.”
— Mel Wise, Teaching Director · 11–16 years in sector

“Such a valuable workshop. I loved it and I am sure it would help lots of other people working in child care.”
— Gabriela, Educator · 3–5 years in sector

From the March 2026 cohort: +1.6 average lift in confidence (5-point scale, single day) · 4.9/5 facilitator rating · 4.9/5 content satisfaction

ALIGNED WITH NATIONAL STANDARDS
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: Standards 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 · 6 hours of accredited PD
National Quality Standards: Quality Areas 1, 4, 5 and 7

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR

Radha Babicci is a Long Day Care Service Director with 20 years of experience in early childhood education. She knows from the inside what it costs to hold a service together — and what helps educators come back to themselves so they can stay.

Her work draws on her training in mindfulness, yoga, meditation and breathwork, and on a pioneering mindfulness program for young children that earned her an Excellence in Teaching Award. Through The Regulated Educator, Radha works with services to embed wellbeing into the everyday rhythm of teaching — not as an extra, but as the ground the work stands on.