Phoenix Support for Educators

08/10/2026

Where will your 2027 live?

Your planning, your documentation, your reflections, and everything you learn this year can sit together in one bundle with one warm Desert Sands cover.

Pre-sale is now open for the 2027 Complete Reflections of an Educator Bundle:

📅 Planning Diary for your days and weeks, with a dated page for every day
🗓️ Program Calendar for your month, planned big at A3, and free in the bundle
✍️ Reflections Journal for you, as a person and a professional
📚 Professional Learning Notebook for the conferences, workshops, books, podcasts and conversations that shape your practice

These are digital PDFs. Print them at home, or write straight onto your iPad in Goodnotes or on your reMarkable.

Pre-sale price: $57.60 (usually $92)
Order now, and your download links will arrive by email in the first week of December, ready for the year ahead.

Buying for your team? For 10 or more diaries, get in touch about a bulk discount.

https://www.phoenix-support.com.au/shop/reflections-of-an-educator-4/planning-bundle-printable-2190

06/10/2026

Every year, services scramble for a take home gift that will actually be used and cherished, not shoved in a drawer by January.

This year, we've found one that does both. And it teaches something bigger while it's at it.

Meet The Phoenix Five, a gorgeously illustrated story built on a world first concept: Needs Literacy. Because here's the thing most of us are still learning as adults. Behaviour isn't random. It's not naughty or good. It's information, a signal for a need underneath it, and every child has the right to be understood that way.

Five characters. Five human needs. Safety, Connection, Freedom, Mastery, and Fun. Brought to life through rhyme and colour, these are characters children will beg to read again and again, and each time, they're building the vocabulary to understand themselves a little better.

For a service, that makes this more than a gift. It's a shared language you can keep using in the room long after the holidays have been and gone. Send a child home with a story that helps them, and the grown ups around them, understand what's really behind the big feelings.

Usually $26.95, but contact us today for a bulk order discount, and give the gift that keeps building understanding all year.

https://www.phoenix-support.com.au/contactus

05/10/2026

What happens when thoughtful, purposeful, skilled educators trust children?
I’ll go first….
(See Goodstart Early Learning Shailer Park’s comments as well)

WHAT DO YOU SEE? 👀

What play do you notice? What questions does it raise? Any concerns, curiosities or possibilities you spot?

We want to know your thoughts — no right or wrong answers, just different perspectives. 💭

04/10/2026

Remember when group time felt simple? A puppet, a song everyone knew, a cushion fort, and a room full of children leaning in.
We've built a free library to bring that feeling back.

The Everyday Skill Builders Library holds eight experiences built from things already in your room:

Storytelling
Musical Stories
Group time Rituals
Needs Literacy
Action Songs
Fine Motor Songs
Supervision
Rhyming

Each Skill Builder comes with a downloadable PDF that walks you through what to do, plus a YouTube clip of our team demonstrating it step by step.
And this is only the beginning. We have plenty more Skill Builders on the way, so bookmark the page and check back often.

Pick one. Try it in service this week. Then come back and tell us in the comments what it opened up for your children.

👉 https://www.phoenix-support.com.au/everyday-skill-builders-library

01/10/2026

Our Super Summer Special is here!

One full day, your way: choose any 2-hour in-person workshop from our range, paired with 4 hours of coaching for your team, all for $2,499 plus travel and GST.

Book before 31 October, for delivery any time through to March 2027.

Our facilitators are ready to travel to you, wherever you are in Australia.

Whatever your priority areas are for next year, behaviour and wellbeing, leadership, or inclusion, we've got a workshop for it, plus the coaching hours to help it stick.

Check out our full range of workshops here: https://www.phoenix-support.com.au/workshops

Availability is limited this year. Contact us now to secure your dates: https://www.phoenix-support.com.au/contactus

29/09/2026

Melbourne Educators, we're here!

The ECA Conference starts in Melbourne tonight and this year and our Victorian team are beside themselves with excitement! After years of waving the rest of us off to conferences in sunny Queensland, their FOMO is officially cured!

Come and find the Phoenix Support for Educators trade stand to

👋 Say hello to the team Bri, Linda & Sarah
🧠 Take our quiz
🎁 Grab our conference only specials
🍿 Learn the popcorn song with Linda (no promises, but she's been warming up)

We can't wait to see you there!

24/09/2026

Big news!!!

Phoenix Support for Educators is heading back to the international stage next week!

For the second time this year, Christopher Phoenix and Sandi Phoenix are travelling from Australia to the UK, this time for the Childcare & Education Expo in Coventry.

Christopher presents Educator Wellbeing: You Can't Pour from an Empty Cup on Friday 2 October, 1:15pm–1:45pm.

Sandi presents Is Children's Behaviour Ours to Manage? Planning for Fulfilment Instead of "Behaviour Management" on Saturday 3 October, 10:30am–11:15am.

Find them at our trade stand across both days, where they'll be signing copies of the Phoenix Five children's book, and talking all things Cups® in person.

Childcare & Education Expo, Coventry, UK

Friday 2 – Saturday 3 October

Book signing: Phoenix Five, at our stand

22/09/2026

Sarah has been beside Sandi almost since day one, working her executive assistant magic in the background and keeping the whole thing running. Thirteen years of showing up with a smile, doing the work with skill, and never once asking for anything in return.

This team would not function without her, and we want her to know how much she is valued.

Happy anniversary, Sarah!

20/09/2026

Eleven years of Chris!

If you've ever talked philosophy with Chris, even just for a few minutes then you'll know how it goes... he'll take the conversation somewhere you really didn't expect and then throw in a side of magic! Eleven years in, and he still brings that same curious, unhurried energy into everything he does.

Chris proudly carries his Freedom Cup front and centre, and this team has been lucky to benefit from it. With over a decade of saying yes to the flight, drives, and services way off the beaten track, just to show up for educators. Sandi's right hand man for eleven years, and one of the people who keeps this team thinking bigger and laughing together.

Happy 11th anniversary, Chris!

18/09/2026

Rural Victoria, Linda is heading your way!

She's our Nature Pedagogy expert, VIT-registered, and the mind behind an award-winning bush kinder program built around mental health. Give her a full day with your team and your educators leave the room energised, holding tools they'll use on Monday.

Linda's home turf is risky play and nature pedagogy, which speaks directly to a service with paddocks and bushland instead of concrete and fences. Her dominant Freedom Cup® shows up in the delivery too: participants call her sessions dynamic, funny, and impossible to zone out of.

Touring Ararat, Bendigo and surrounds:
October 13, 14, 27, 28, 29
November 10, 11, 12
December 2, 3

On offer:
- Educator Toolkit for Behaviour, our flagship day on understanding behaviour as an expression of unmet needs
- Fostering Wellbeing, delivered under Victoria's School Readiness Funding for educators, not families
- Puddles, Pebbles & Possibilities, exploring play and connection in natural environments
- Risky Play: Taking the Fun Cup Seriously
- Any of the above, combined into a custom full day for your team

Dates are limited and this region books out fast. Send us a message to lock yours in, or contact us here: https://www.phoenix-support.com.au/contactus