Module One
Exploring Regulation Rituals
Move beyond narrow ideas of regulation as simply being calm or compliant, and begin recognising it as a changing, contextual process — with a shared language for discussing participation.
Mapped to the priorities you're already planning for
Regulation Rituals® is designed to align with the professional learning and inclusion priorities behind Kindy Uplift, Preschool Boost and Inclusion Ready — one investment that supports several.
See how it aligns →
You already know relationships matter
But knowing relationships matter doesn't tell an educator what to notice when a child begins to struggle.
Your educators may already have calm spaces, visual schedules, sensory resources, transition songs, breathing cards and an enormous amount of care. They may have attended training, downloaded resources and tried many different approaches. And yet they may still find themselves wondering:
Why did that moment escalate so quickly?
Why can this child manage one day and be overwhelmed the next?
Do I hold the boundary, change the expectation or offer connection?
How do I support one child while staying present for the rest of the group?
How do we stay consistent without becoming rigid?
How do we do all of this without adding pressure to already-stretched educators?
Regulation Rituals® was created for the space between caring deeply and knowing what to consider next.
Bring Regulation Rituals® to your team →The real problem
The real problem isn't a lack of care. It's a lack of shared understanding.
Educators care deeply about the children they support. The challenge is that regulation is often taught through disconnected ideas, isolated strategies and different professional perspectives. One educator may have completed sensory training, another may understand attachment, while someone else is drawing on behaviour guidance, trauma-informed practice or their own experience.
Each piece can be valuable, but without a shared framework, teams are left trying to bring it all together in the middle of a busy early learning day. Educators respond differently, strategies are used inconsistently, and everyone is left wondering why the approach isn't creating the change they hoped for.
Without a shared map
One educator reads a child's behaviour as a sensory need.
Another sees a boundary issue.
Another calls it attention-seeking.
Everyone is trying their best — but everyone is working from a different map.
With Regulation Rituals®
Your team develops a shared language for what they're noticing, and a more thoughtful process for deciding how they may respond.
The goal is not to turn educators into clinicians. It's to help them become more confident, curious and intentional educators.
How Regulation Rituals® works
Not another program to deliver to children. A way to see the day differently.
Implementation doesn't depend on finding more hours in the day. It begins with learning to see the arrivals, transitions, group experiences and repeated rhythms already happening — and shaping them into meaningful, predictable rituals.
8
Progressive modules
Each module builds on the one before it, connecting the ideas rather than collecting more disconnected information.
12
Months of access
Not an eight-week course. Your team moves at a pace that's realistic within the life of a real early childhood service.
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Optional live support
Live sessions with Sally during weeks 2–9 of each term — a genuine community of practice, never another requirement.
How it maps to your priorities
One program. Multiple priorities.
Regulation Rituals® doesn't sit beside the work your service is already doing — it strengthens the outcomes you're already accountable for. Here's how it maps to the major early-childhood priority frameworks.
Kindy Uplift · Queensland
6 priority areas
Social and emotional learning Strong
Strengthens relational practice, emotional language, co-regulation and children's meaningful participation in social experiences.
Access and inclusion Strong
Culturally safe, inclusive and responsive kindergarten programs — equity and access for all. Builds capability to recognise participation barriers and create more accessible, responsive and inclusive early learning experiences.
Executive function Strong
Strengthens understanding of the foundations supporting focus, flexibility, impulse control, working memory, persistence and problem-solving.
Physicality Supports
Connects regulation with movement, sensory learning, body awareness, fine and gross motor participation and accessible physical experiences.
Language and literacy Contributes
Expands the language educators use to support emotional understanding, body awareness, communication and shared meaning.
Queensland doesn't maintain or endorse an approved supplier list. Kindy Uplift funding may be directed to professional development that builds educator capability and inclusion.
Preschool Boost · South Australia
5 AEDC domains
Emotional maturity Strong
Supports understanding of emotional regulation, stress-related communication, emotional language, co-regulation and predictable relational experiences.
Social competence Strong
Strengthens capability to support belonging, relationships, shared experiences, co-regulation and socially responsive environments.
Physical health and wellbeing Supports
Connects sensory processing, body awareness, movement and environmental design with children's ability to access and engage in the day.
Language and cognitive skills Contributes
Supports the foundational regulation and executive capacities involved in attention, memory, flexibility, engagement and persistence.
Communication skills and general knowledge Contributes
Builds shared emotional and body-based language while supporting varied communication styles and inclusive access to group experiences.
Designed to contribute to educator capability and service-level practice across all five AEDC domains — aligned with Preschool Boost and AEDC priorities. It does not guarantee changes in individual child development or future AEDC results.
Inclusion Ready
Inclusion as a shared responsibility — not the child's alone.
- ✦ Equitable access & meaningful participation
- ✦ Reducing environmental barriers
- ✦ Neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based practice
- ✦ Sensory, communication, motor & relational access
- ✦ Educator capability, not dependence on specialists
- ✦ Planning for the child, educator, environment & experience together
Helps teams move beyond placing responsibility for inclusion solely on the individual child, and instead consider the relationships, environments, expectations and teaching practices that shape access and participation.
EYLF V2.0 & National Quality Standard
Language for your reflection and improvement planning.
EYLF V2.0
Secure, respectful & reciprocal relationships · Equity, inclusion & high expectations · Responsiveness to children · Play-based learning & intentionality · Learning environments · Critical reflection & professional learning · Collaborative leadership & teamwork · Wellbeing & confident involvement in learning
National Quality Standard
QA1 · Program & practice · QA3 · Physical environment · QA5 · Relationships with children · QA6 · Partnerships with families · QA7 · Governance & professional learning
Can support service reflection, professional learning and improvement planning across these areas. Participation does not guarantee a particular assessment and rating outcome.
How your team accesses it
Learn during planning time, or between experiences — on any device.
The whole method lives in one online portal. Educators watch a full module on the laptop during planning time, or dip into a single ritual on their phone between experiences. Progress saves as they go.
The eight-module learning journey
From uncertainty toward a clearer, shared understanding.
Module Two
Nurturing Brains in Early Childhood
A more accurate, compassionate understanding of what may be occurring within the brain and body — moving past neuromyths and deficit-focused assumptions, without becoming neuroscientists.
Module Three
Building Relationships for Regulation
Grow more confident in relational moments — staying emotionally available without removing every boundary, and noticing relational cues while holding the needs of the wider group.
Module Four
Sensory Processing and Regulation
Read the body with curiosity before making assumptions about behaviour — recognising that some actions serve a regulatory purpose, and adapting experiences without singling children out.
Module Five
Understanding Emotions and Stress
Find better language for experiences children can't yet explain — interpreting stress-related behaviour as communication while responding in ways that preserve dignity and connection.
Module Six
Creating Islands of Predictability
Let the environment carry more of the supportive work — shaping meaningful, flexible rituals and bringing greater intention to transitions and repeated moments across the day.
Module Seven
Intentional Teaching for Regulation
Embed regulation-supportive thinking within the curriculum rather than treating it as an add-on — planning experiences with varied entry points and reducing unnecessary barriers.
Module Eight
Educator Resilience and Wellbeing
Sustain relational practice without expecting educators to carry everything alone — building team cultures where adults can communicate honestly, repair, and keep developing without shame.
Enrol your team in the complete method →
The overview above shows the professional learning journey and intended outcomes of each stage. The full curriculum, proprietary frameworks, case material and participant tools remain inside the enrolled program.
Inside every module
Learning your team can hold in their hands.
Each module pairs its lessons with a printable workbook, a reflection worksheet and a practice card set — so the thinking travels off the screen and into planning meetings, staff rooms and everyday practice.
What your team receives
Everything the whole team needs, together.
The complete eight-module program
Sequenced learning that moves educators from foundational understanding into relational, sensory, environmental and intentional practice.
Twelve months of access
Move through the program at a manageable pace, revisit key concepts and return as understanding develops.
Optional live sessions with Sally
Invitations to the next relevant cohort, with sessions offered during weeks 2–9 of each school term.
A genuine community of practice
A professional space for reflection, questions, shared learning and practical discussion about implementation.
Reflection & implementation resources
Supporting materials that connect course content with your own context through observation, reflection and team discussion.
Access for up to 10 educators
The Team Licence lets the people working together each day develop the same knowledge and shared professional language.
Flexible online learning
Access the modules from different locations and work through the content around service responsibilities.
Certificate of completion
Participants who complete the eight modules receive a certificate documenting their participation in the program.
One shared approach
Greater consistency in how children are seen, spoken about and supported across your service.
See team enrolment →
Hi, I'm Sally
I created the program I wanted more educators to have access to.
I'm a Paediatric Occupational Therapist who has spent my career working within and alongside early childhood education. As the former National Manager of Occupational Therapy for one of Australia's largest early learning providers, I supported practice across approximately 650 services nationally.
Through national professional development, consultation and my independent work, I've supported thousands of educators. I've seen how deeply they care — and I've watched capable, compassionate educators begin to doubt themselves because the strategies they'd been given didn't make sense for the child in front of them.
Regulation Rituals® brings together Paediatric Occupational Therapy, early childhood practice, national leadership, sensory processing, attachment-informed and neurodiversity-affirming approaches, and years of translating complex knowledge for educators.
It hasn't been created to make early childhood feel more clinical — but more connected, thoughtful and human.
17 yrs
as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist
~650
services supported through national leadership
1000s
of educators supported across Australia
National
Manager of OT, major early learning provider
Choose the way you join
A considered investment in whole-team capability.
The value isn't only in what each educator learns individually. It's in what becomes possible when the people working together each day understand the work together.
Planning across your priorities
One investment across more than one priority.
Kindy Uplift (QLD) and Preschool Boost (SA) planning both prioritise the capabilities this program builds. We can supply the quote, invoice and program documentation to support your planning — and services remain responsible for confirming their own funding conditions. See the full alignment →
Kindy Uplift
Preschool Boost
Most popular · Team Licence
Build a shared approach across your service
Access for up to 10 named educators from one service. Each receives all eight modules, 12 months of access, participant resources, invitations to the next relevant live cohort, and a certificate on completion.
$349.70 + GST
per educator when all 10 places are allocated*
$3,497 + GST
per service
Individual Licence
Join as an individual educator or leader
One named participant, the complete eight-module program, 12 months of access, participant resources and invitations to the next relevant live community of practice.
$1,797 + GST
One named participant · 12 months of access
Join as an individual →Multi-Service & Approved Provider
A shared approach across several services
Approved providers, service groups and organisations seeking access for more than 10 educators can request a tailored licensing proposal — clarifying participant numbers, locations, access and licensing conditions before enrolment.
Tailored pricing
Scoped to your organisation
Request an organisation proposal →Need internal approval before enrolling?
A formal proposal, quote or invoice can be provided for services seeking approval from an approved provider, leadership team, committee or board.
Not ready to enrol today?
Join the priority list to receive information about upcoming live cohorts and future enrolment opportunities.
*The Team Licence is purchased as one service licence for $3,497 + GST and includes up to 10 named educators. The $349.70 + GST per-educator figure is the equivalent cost when all 10 included places are allocated; the total licence price remains the same if fewer places are used. Regulation Rituals® is professional education, not Occupational Therapy treatment or an NDIS-funded support.
Is it the right fit?
Honest about what this is — and isn't.
Regulation Rituals® is for you if you want to…
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Develop a shared approach to regulation across the whole team
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Move away from deficit-focused or behaviour-only explanations
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Support children with varied sensory, developmental and participation needs
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Connect regulation with curriculum, intentional teaching and reflective practice
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Help educators feel more capable — without expecting them to become therapists
The program takes a universal, inclusive approach. A child doesn't need a diagnosis for educators to benefit.
It's probably not the right fit if you're seeking…
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A compliance-based behaviour-management program
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A promise that difficult behaviour will disappear
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A scripted response for every child
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A checklist to be applied without reflection
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A collection of sensory activities without the understanding beneath them
It's practical, but not simplistic. It respects children too much to pretend one strategy works for everyone — and educators too much to reduce their work to another laminated card.
The learning experience
What people have shared with me.
As a registered health professional with AHPRA, I'm not able to use testimonials or make claims about outcomes — so I won't. What I can share is some of the things educators have let me know about accessing the content and communicating with one another as a team. In their words:
“The course increased our confidence in discussing the concepts as a team.”
“We came away with a clearer shared language.”
“The content helped us reflect more deeply on our everyday practice.”
Feedback relates to the professional learning experience — communication, clarity of the modules and usefulness of the resources — not to clinical or child outcomes.
Frequently asked questions
The questions services ask most.
Is Regulation Rituals® an eight-week program?+
No. It contains eight modules, but it isn't an eight- or ten-week course. Participants receive 12 months of access and move through the learning at a pace that's manageable for them and their service.
Do educators have to attend the live sessions?+
No. The live sessions are optional and aren't required to complete the modules. They're an additional layer of hands-on professional support and connection for educators who'd like to take part — missing one doesn't mean falling behind.
Can educators register at any time?+
Yes. You can register throughout the year and will be invited to the next relevant live community of practice based on the timing of your enrolment.
Is Regulation Rituals® an Occupational Therapy service?+
It's an educator professional development and capacity-building program created and delivered by an Occupational Therapist. It provides general professional education and is not an individual OT assessment, diagnosis or treatment service, and doesn't provide child-specific clinical recommendations.
Does the program promise to improve children's behaviour?+
No particular behavioural, developmental or clinical outcome is guaranteed. Regulation Rituals® strengthens educator understanding and supports more thoughtful, inclusive practice. Children's behaviour and development are influenced by many interacting personal, relational, environmental and systemic factors.
How many educators are included in the Team Licence?+
Up to 10 named educators from one enrolled service. It's purchased as one service licence for $3,497 + GST; the per-educator figure is the equivalent when all 10 places are allocated. Services or providers needing more than 10 places can request a tailored proposal.
Can we connect the program with our Quality Improvement Plan?+
Services may use their professional reflections, team discussions and implementation planning within broader quality-improvement processes. Participation doesn't guarantee a particular assessment or rating outcome; each service remains responsible for how its practice aligns with the National Quality Standard.
Do participants receive a certificate?+
Yes. Participants who complete the eight modules receive a certificate documenting their participation. Registered professionals remain responsible for determining how the learning relates to their individual CPD requirements.
Your educators don't need more pressure.
They need a way to make sense of what they're already seeing. Give your team a shared, evidence-informed approach to regulation — and one clear place to begin.
Important information
Regulation Rituals® is an educator professional development and capacity-building program. It provides general professional education and reflective learning and does not constitute individual Occupational Therapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment or clinical advice. It does not guarantee particular behavioural, developmental, regulatory, educational, workforce, assessment-and-rating or service-level outcomes.
Experiences and outcomes vary according to participants, children, service context, implementation and other factors beyond the program. References to research describe the bodies of knowledge informing the learning and should not be interpreted as proof of a particular result. Live sessions provide general professional education and implementation support, not child-specific assessment or clinical recommendations. Where individual clinical advice is required, families and services should seek appropriately qualified support through a separate referral, consent process and service agreement.
Aligned with the priorities of
Your Early Education OT
Sally Galloway | Occupational Therapist
Your Early Education OT provides professional learning, consultation and capacity-building support. Website content and programs are educational in nature and do not replace individual occupational therapy assessment, diagnosis or treatment.
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