Resilience is the ability to adapt and recover from challenges, setbacks, and stress. It’s not just about “bouncing back”—it’s about “bouncing forward” by learning and growing from adversity.

For Education Leaders, resilience helps you manage team challenges, prevent burnout, and foster a positive culture in your workplace.

For Parents and Educators, resilience equips you to navigate Big Behaviours in children, build emotional connections, and create a sense of calm in your environment.

Resilience is the foundation for personal growth, emotional well-being, and success—and it can be cultivated at any stage of life!

Our program is designed to help Education Leaders like you prevent burnout, strengthen your teams, and create resilient, thriving workplaces with reduced staff turnover. This saves time and allows for consistency to deliver a greater impact.

Here's how we support leaders:

Leadership Workshops and Coaching: Develop a Growth Mindset, build emotional resilience, and learn strategies to lead with empathy and clarity.

Burnout Prevention: We provide tools for managing stress, improving work-life balance, and supporting the well-being of your team.

Team Resilience Building: Learn how to foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and positivity within your team, reducing turnover and improving morale.

NQF Alignment: Our strategies are aligned with the Australian National Quality Framework, ensuring that your leadership practices support high-quality outcomes for your service.

Whether you’re dealing with staff turnover, high-stress environments, or the need to inspire your team, our program equips you and your team with the skills and mindset to lead with confidence and purpose.

Big Behaviours—like meltdowns, defiance, or outbursts—are often a child’s way of communicating emotions or needs they don’t know how to express.

Our program helps you address the root causes of Big Behaviours, rather than just the symptoms.

Here’s how:

Emotional Awareness: We teach parents and educators how to help children identify and name their emotions, which reduces frustration and promotes regulation. Practical Strategies: From creating predictable routines to calming techniques like deep breathing, we provide actionable tools you can implement at home or in the classroom.

Connection First: We emphasize building trust and secure relationships, which are critical for reducing Big Behaviours and fostering cooperation.

Modelling and Teaching Resilience: By modelling calmness and teaching problem-solving skills, you can empower children to handle challenges more effectively.

With our approach, you’ll feel confident addressing Big Behaviours in ways that build emotional intelligence and connection knowing you have a coach to support you if required - you not alone.

Our 6-Step Framework focuses on cultivating resilience, emotional intelligence, and well-being for leaders, educators, parents, and children. Image

Here’s what each step offers:

Laying the Foundation – Mindset: Develop a Growth Mindset to embrace challenges and foster adaptability in yourself and those around you.

Strengthening Emotional Intelligence: Learn how to identify, understand, and regulate emotions to reduce stress and improve relationships.

Building Confidence & Relationships: Boost self-confidence and build trust-based connections that strengthen teams and families.

Aligning Purpose & Values: Clarify your goals and align them with your core values to create a sense of direction and motivation.

Neurodiversity & Communication: Gain insights into supporting diverse needs and develop impactful communication skills.

Enhancing Well-Being & Creativity: Create environments that support emotional regulation, creativity, and long-term well-being.

Key Outcomes:

For Leaders: Build resilient, motivated teams while preventing burnout and reducing staff turnover.

For Parents/Educators: Foster calm, connection, and cooperation while addressing Big Behaviours.

For Children: Create a foundation for emotional regulation, self-confidence, and growth.

Our program delivers real, actionable results that make a meaningful difference in your life, your work, and your connections and relationships.

At Perch: Building Resilience Together, we don’t just offer generic advice or cookie-cutter strategies.

Here’s what sets us apart:

Tailored Approach: Every workshop, coaching session, and resource is customised to address your unique challenges—whether it’s reducing Big Behaviours in children or strengthening team dynamics in a workplace.

A 6-Step Resilience Framework: Our signature program is grounded in evidence-based practices that focus on mindset, emotional intelligence, communication, and creating environments for well-being.

Focus on Long-Term Change: We don’t stop at quick fixes. We empower you with tools and strategies that create lasting transformation.

Inclusive Expertise: With over 30 years of experience in leadership, early childhood education, and OSHC, we understand the realities of your world—and we bring practical, compassionate solutions that work.

Passion for Empowerment: Our mission is to help leaders, educators, and parents build resilience together—not just as individuals, but as part of thriving communities.

A Growth Mindset is the belief that abilities, intelligence, and skills can be developed through effort and learning.

It helps you approach challenges as opportunities for growth rather than obstacles.

For leaders, it means guiding your team through change with resilience.

For parents and educators, it means teaching children (and yourself) how to embrace mistakes, keep trying, and grow stronger through adversity