Seminars for Early Years

Dare to be Exceptional: for Early Years Professionals
This keynote or seminar challenges the mediocrity of meeting minimum standards and shaping people to be able to do a job rather than a person who can change the world. This inspires big thinking in a simplistic and practical way and shows that anyone can be exceptional in their chosen career provided they follow their passion and use their natural abilities and talents. Our children deserve the best care and early year’s education possible – this seminar will have you and your team inspired to be exceptional. (Linked to the EYLF – Belong, Be and Become)

Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilience and Self Esteem in Today’s Children
Children need many essential experiences to build the competencies that will help them manage life – the good, the bad and the ugly. This common sense, practical model will reassure those who work with children that what they have always known to be important in the early years of a child’s education – are still important! The 10 building blocks model that Maggie has created will resonate with anyone who works with families and help our world to raise healthier, happier more resilient children. (Linked to EYLF – all 5 Outcomes)

The Importance of Calmness, Silence and Stillness in children’s lives
Teach our children this important and inspirational life resilience skill, how to calm hyperactive children and learn the best ways to maximise the brain's capacity to learn in a safe environment. Learn the cognitive, social and emotional benefits of silence and stillness and how it will bring you immediate benefits into your centre and school. Maggie also explores building mindfulness in young children that will help with their ability to interpret and interact more positively with their world. (Linked to Outcomes 1,2 & 3)

Playful Hearts: How Play Builds the Whole Child
Maggie is a passionate play advocate and in this seminar she explores it like no-one else! You will learn the vital aspects of play that build vital brain connections at the same time as building emotional, social and spiritual competence. She will also demonstrate how imaginary play can help children to heal from loss and hurt. Play is serious business and allowing children to play in many different forms will enable the well being of both children and their carers. (Linked to EYLF – all 5 Outcomes)

Nurturing Kids Hearts and Souls 
This seminar will focus on exploring the unspoken dimension of raising healthy children– the nurturing of children’s hearts and souls. Children are struggling with the modern world and this will show you why and what can be done to help parents raise healthy happy kids. Also Maggie will explore EQ, the role of imagination, intuition, play and SQ – and how to strengthen the human spirit in your class or centre. (Linked to Outcomes 1,2 & 3)

EYLF and Playful Hearts for Early Years Educators
Maggie has combined two of her most popular seminars for early years educators for a morning of stimulating learning. Her passion for giving under 5's the very best start in life will infect you and she will give you clarity about the EYLF, as well as give you more! We must fight hard to keep the place of play where it needs to be - in childhood, and Maggie will give you so much more persuasive power to convince parents about the true power of play.

Nurturing Children’s Spirituality
As today’s children continue to struggle with living in our busy world, our suicide rates continue to rise across the Western world. In the seminar Maggie explores how to strengthen the inner world of children – this explores how to build emotional, social and spiritual competence while building a strong sense of conscience that shows how to contribute to making the world a better place.

Building Relationships with Other People’s Children
This seminar focuses on the hidden dynamics of building healthy relationships with other people’s children. It explores the art of caring communication, the role of personality, building trust, rapport and using conflict as a teachable moment. This gives many tools for managing those challenging children that sometimes make life very interesting. This can be customised to suit birth to 8,  or for adolescents 12-25.

Dad’s ONLY: Top Tips for Being a Terrific Dad
This is a seminar just for Dad’s that unplugs the important aspects of the parenting of children from birth to 25. Maggie has a unique ability to do “bloke talk” and decodes complex information in a highly practical and informative way. In her commonsense style of communication Maggie will inspire, empower and enthuse Dad’s to be terrific!