SenseUp Training - Sensory Upskilling

We will be exhibiting at OTX later this month!

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OT Exchange 2026 is happening THIS month.

In just a few weeks, 1,000 occupational therapists from across Australia will come together for OTA’s largest clinical conference for OTs.

✔️ 400+ abstracts
✔️ 130 presentations
✔️ 120 posters
✔️ 110+ exhibitors and partners

From paediatrics and mental health to assistive technology, disability, older persons and knowledge translation – OTX 2026 is where the profession connects, learns and shapes what comes next.

This is your opportunity to hear new ideas, strengthen your practice, build connections and be part of the conversations driving the future of occupational therapy.

📍 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
📅 23–24 June

Register now and join the OT community at OTX 2026: https://bit.ly/3XLhkfC

🎉🎉🎉 The first ever SenseUp Retreat starts tomorrow for our BETA TSAC Certification Students.

Let the games begin!! The first SenseUp Certification Retreat starts tomorrow in my therapy clinic. These are the goody bags 🌸🥰 | Kerry Evetts Let the games begin!! The first SenseUp Certification Retreat starts tomorrow in my therapy clinic. These are the goody bags 🌸🥰

So excited for Cohort 2 of The SenseUp Approach Course to kick off! 🚀 We've been working hard to load up all the fresh new content. Get ready for some new research and innovative insights! We can't wait to share everything we've been developing. It's going to be an amazing learning journey for everyone involved. Join us for an experience that will truly elevate your understanding!
Doors close at midnight tonight AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)

Final Reminder ⏰ Tomorrow, we close enrolments for The SenseUp Approach Course.
If you've been following along, attending the workshops, joining the masterclasses, reading the blogs, or quietly thinking, "I know I need to deepen my understanding of this"...

This is your reminder.

The SenseUp Approach Course is not another CPD course to tick off.

It is a journey and community you become part of.

A place to strengthen your clinical reasoning.
A place to better understand the children on your caseload.
A place to connect the dots between sensory processing, nervous system safety, participation, regulation, and intervention.

And perhaps most importantly, a place to learn alongside a community of paediatric OTs who are asking the same questions, facing similar challenges, and committed to creating better outcomes for children and families.

The next intake does not open again until February 2027.

If you've been waiting for the right moment, this is it.

🔗 Learn more and enrol:
https://www.senseup.org/the-senseup-approach-course

The SenseUp Approach Course is not something you attend and tick off.
It is a journey and community you become part of.

A community of paediatric OTs who are passionate about understanding children more deeply, strengthening their clinical reasoning, and creating meaningful change for the children and families they support.

A new way of thinking about the children on your caseload.

A stronger framework for making sense of what you observe.

A clearer pathway from observation to intervention.

A more confident approach to clinical reasoning, reporting, and recommendations.

And long after the six months are complete, you remain connected to a network of therapists who continue to learn, reflect, share, challenge, and grow together.

Because lasting change does not come from content alone.

It comes from belonging to a community that continues to shape the way you think, reason, and practise every day.

👉 That is what changes everything.

Learn more about TSAC:
https://senseup.org/the-senseup-approach-course

Therapy Nugget 💡 Sometimes escalation is not the first sign that a child is struggling.
It is the first sign that they can no longer keep holding everything together.

Because many children spend large parts of the day working incredibly hard to cope.

Managing sensory input.
Suppressing movement needs.
Pushing through discomfort.
Trying to keep up with social, emotional, cognitive, and environmental demands that are already stretching their capacity.

And often… they look “fine” while doing it.

Until the effort of holding it together becomes too much.

Then the behaviour becomes visible.

Northrup et al. (2026) describe this as one of the major challenges in co-regulation. Early opportunities for support are frequently missed because the child may still appear externally regulated while internal stress and nervous system demands are already building.

That is why the earlier shifts matter clinically.

The child who suddenly becomes sillier.
Less flexible.
More controlling.
More avoidant.
Louder. Faster. Harder to redirect.

These moments are often telling us that the child is already using a significant amount of effort just to stay engaged, participating, and coping.

By the time a child refuses, avoids, or escalates, they may already have been working hard to stay engaged for quite some time.

The clinical question is not always:
"How do I get them back on task?"

Sometimes it's:
"How much effort did it take to get this far?"

And that changes intervention.

Because instead of waiting for escalation before stepping in, we start asking:

What has this child already been managing today?
What demands have been building beneath the surface?
What is the nervous system telling us before the behaviour peaks?

That shift in reasoning changes what we notice.
It changes when we intervene.
And often, it changes outcomes.

State first. Strategy second.

Read the full blog here:
https://senseup.org/blog/emotion-regulation-autistic-children/