Full-day OT pathway:

 The Shared Lens &  Sensory In Action Workshop  

Paediatric Occupational Therapists

You are warmly invited to attend the full day: the morning workshop and the OT-specific afternoon session.

The morning will likely affirm much of what you already know, but it will also stretch you. You'll encounter frameworks that are reshaping how we think about sensory integration in context: Polyvagal Theory and what it means for co-regulation in the therapy room; trauma-sensitive care and how adverse experiences interact with a child's sensory processing; and a deeper look at how we work with families, school teams, and other clinicians - not just alongside them - to create the conditions in which a child can genuinely participate and grow.

You'll come away with language and frameworks to better articulate what you do to the people around the child, and tools to position yourself as the connective thread in the team around the child.

Then in the afternoon, you'll roll up your sleeves. The OT workshop is about doing: understanding when and how to use suspension and non-suspension equipment; thinking through treatment principles for a wide range of presentations; and most importantly, learning to respond to the child who is in front of you today - not the child you planned for. This session is grounded in affirming, responsive practice that honours the child's nervous system in real time.

The afternoon OT session is limited to 25 participants. Secure your full-day place early.

 The Shared Lens Workshop - Morning Session  

Allied Health Professionals: Speech-Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Behaviour Practitioners etc.

You work with children whose sensory and regulatory differences shape every aspect of your sessions - whether or not sensory processing is your primary focus. This morning is for you.

You'll gain a deeper, more integrated understanding of the intersection between nervous system safety and sensory integration, and why a child who feels unsafe in their body cannot access the higher-order language, movement, or behavioural learning you're trying to facilitate. When the nervous system is in survival mode, the work we ask children to do simply isn't available to them. Understanding why changes everything about how.

You'll explore interoception and emotional regulation - how a child's ability to sense and interpret their internal body signals is foundational to self-regulation, and how this connects to the behavioural and communicative challenges you see every day.

Crucially, you'll also spend time on working within the context of the family, school, and therapy team. The most effective intervention any of us can offer is one that is understood, reinforced, and sustained by the other people in a child's world. You'll leave this day better equipped to collaborate across professional boundaries - and better able to communicate the "why" behind your recommendations in a shared language.

 The Shared Lens Workshop -  Morning Session  

Educators: Teachers, Learning Support Staff & School Counsellors, etc.

You are not therapists. But you are, in many ways, the most powerful person in a child's life during the school day - and this workshop will help you understand why.

If you've sat in parent meetings hearing terms like sensory processing, regulation, polyvagal, or interoception, and nodded along while quietly wondering what it all really means - this morning will make it click. We will translate the science into something practical, relatable, and immediately usable in your classroom.

You'll come to understand why some children struggle to settle, focus, or engage - not because they are naughty, defiant, or unmotivated, but because their nervous system is doing exactly what it has learned to do to keep them safe. That shift in understanding changes how you respond. And how you respond changes everything for that child.

You'll explore what it looks like to create neurologically safer spaces in your classroom - through the rhythms of the day, the sensory environment, the quality of your relationships with children, and the way you communicate with families and therapists. You'll see, perhaps more clearly than you ever have before, the power you hold.

This session is also about building bridges. The families, therapists, and support workers working with a child in your class are trying to do what's best for that child. But without a shared language and mutual understanding, those efforts stay siloed. You'll leave this day as a more confident, more connected participant in the team around the child - the round table every child deserves.

Yes. The workshop is pitched at an intermediate level and assumes prior grounding in sensory processing through training or clinical practice. It is not an introductory sensory course.

Absolutely. The morning workshop is open to paediatric occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists and educators with a clinical focus. The afternoon session is restricted to occupational therapists.

Absolutely yes! We spend a lot of our time in the practical also considering non-suspension equipment.

At least 75% of the OT's I have taught do not have a sensory gym however they learn how to apply their sensory knowledge to their client's settings/contexts and provide meaningful and impactful sensory sessions despite this. 

The body of evidence for sensory integration therapy is growing all the time. We will discuss this at the workshop in more detail, but in the meantime, learn the actual neuroscience behind sensory processing and the research-based interventions OTs around the world are using very successfully. 

I recently attended the WFOT in Bangkok and it was inspiring to see how paediatric OTs around the world are using a sensory frame of reference in their paediatric work, identifying its important contribution to a childs participation and occupational roles. 

We will unfortunately not be able to offer discounts due to this being a smaller more intimate workshop due to venue capacity.

A lovely shared lunch is provided, along with morning and afternoon refreshment breaks. We will be providing vegetarian and halal options.

Yes. Certificates will be issued to attendees. CPD points have been applied for. We will confirm the total CPD once we receive feedback. 

Secure online payment will be processed through Kajabi in Australian dollars. The South African Rand amount shown on this page is a reference amount only.