Wings to Fly

Prospective users

Aims & approach

This two-day, 12-hour workshop supports early years educators to develop the knowledge and skills they need to deliver Wings to Fly™, a social and emotional wellbeing program for children from birth to six years old.

The approach builds upon educators' skills and strategies by developing a greater understanding of brain development in the early years, attachment, and the way to build relationships that support children's resilience and wellbeing.

Through a training session, educators learn strategies to apply in the classroom. These strategies are used to help children recognise their strengths and build their ability to self-regulate, manage their social and emotional wellbeing and build successful relationships with others.

The program consists of 10 modules, each with a range of experiences and activities to enhance children's learning and skills development. The modules are:

• Sense of identity: Who I am
• Connectedness and building a sense of belonging, being brave
• Feeling calm, breathing, body clues, sensory awareness
• Self-awareness: My feelings, being brave
• Social awareness of others' emotions, empathy
• Learned optimism Attention
• Learned optimism: Thinking
• Reaching goals one step at a time and problem-solving
• Friendships in early years: Belonging
• People to support children on the journey

Implementation support

• Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
• Implementation training webinars or modules

Evidence

The Wings to Fly training is endorsed by the Australian Association of Social Workers, and has positive anacdotal evidence of effectiveness.