September, 14th, 2024

Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Auckland, NZ

  • 8:00 am 4:00 pm

  • NOVOTEL & IBIS AUCKLAND ELLERSLIE

Maggie Dent will be joined by two incredible colleagues, child psychiatrist and educator Dr Kaylene Henderson and Allison Davies, who specialises in music and the brain and brings a neurodivergent lens to the presentation.

We’ve taken this event across Australia to Cairns, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart, Wollongong, Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra, there have been many parents on socials asking Maggie to bring this seminar to NZ, and so, here we are!

Something really special happens every time we do this conference… parents, ECEs, teachers, and whoever is in the room, tell us that they feel so well-resourced in going home with some tangible strategies to tackle the anxiety that the children they live and work with are feeling. They often also feel reassured to see the things that they are already doing are helpful.

June 20th, 2024

Alli will be presenting at the well-known and loved Yellow Ladybugs conference, 2024, streamed online from 18 June to 20 June 2024.

You will require a computer, tablet/iPad or smart phone and an internet connection to access the content.

Once you have registered and paid for the conference, you will receive email correspondence that provides information on how to access the platform.

The conference platform gives you choice and control over watching sessions live online as they are released, or afterward at a time that suits you within a 90-day access period.

OnDemand access is included with all ticket types and will be available for an additional 90 days allowing you to watch the content at your own pace.

Certificates of Attendance will be made available for each registered user at no additional charge.

Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Perth
May
18

Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Perth

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.

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Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Canberra
Feb
24

Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Canberra

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.

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Tending to our selves
Jan
28

Tending to our selves

Tending To Our Selves is a full-day workshop that creates space for us to tend to the most fragile parts of ourselves in a way that soothes, and reconnect with the parts of ourselves we may have forgotten in a way that rekindles relationship to self. We will remember who we are, and witness each other do the same. 

Throughout this workshop we will journey in meditation, experience voice work and group singing, take up physical space, soothe ourselves with lullaby and connect with our inner voices.

By coming together in this ceremonial container we expand our capacity to bear witness to ourselves and each other, in all our humanly truths. We remember who we are in this moment, we love and connect with that version of us and we tend to her needs fully and without shame or intent to ‘fix’.

This workshop will be co-hosted by Allison and Siobhán Delaney.

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Tending to our grief
Jan
27

Tending to our grief

Tending to our grief is a full-day workshop holding space for the myriad layers of grief. A space to be held in the arms of community as we tend to our grief, offering a doorway into deeper ways of being with life. This workshop will be co-hosted by Allison and Siobhán Delaney.

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The Swearing Workshop
Sep
4

The Swearing Workshop

Come and join me as we practice creating ‘sweary melodic mantras’. An opportunity to sing our mantras into existence with the intensity they deserve.

A way of intensifying our message. A way of breaking free from the ‘good girl/boy’ messaging many of us are still bound to even as adults. A way of expanding our repertoire and releasing deep emotional wounds. 

Swearing, in fact, can be therapeutic.

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The Voice as a Portal to Regulation
Aug
30

The Voice as a Portal to Regulation

FREE WEBINAR with JESSICA MAGUIRE

When experiencing fear, your vocal pitch might rise, and you could find yourself speaking more rapidly or feeling compelled to fill any moments of silence. Maybe your mouth becomes dry, and your throat constricts or sounds croaky. Or, maybe your voice becomes flat and monotone.

Expressing yourself might trigger feelings of apprehension, making you feel exposed when asserting yourself or reluctant to draw attention by speaking up. Speaking well requires freedom and balance in the muscles around the larynx and jaw. Ideally, a flexible and free posture also supports your breath.

Your vocalisations can be a portal to accessing what's known as the Social Engagement System of your vagus nerve. This is the state that primes you for communication and connection. You feel calm, connected, and safe. Your voice will have variation in rhythm and pitch, your body will feel comfortable, your breath full and your posture relaxed.

You'll learn:
⭐️ To build confidence and trust in your ability to communicate
⭐️ Improve your personal and professional relationships
⭐️ Learn what state of your nervous system you may be communicating from and the behaviours that can arise from this
⭐️ How to partner with your body to cultivate assertiveness and confidence
⭐️ Learn to speak with freedom rather than rules and restriction

Registrations are required beforehand and you’ll have access to stream the webinar for 28 days following this event.

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Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Cairns
Aug
12

Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Cairns

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.

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Yellow Ladybugs 2023 Conference
May
2
to 4 May

Yellow Ladybugs 2023 Conference

Alli will be guest speaker at the highly anticipated 2023 Yellow Ladybugs Conference - which promises to deliver captivating, life changing and memorable professional and life learning opportunities.

Teachers, parents, allied health professionals, and autistic individuals will gain a better understanding on how to support the learning and wellbeing needs of autistic girls, teens and gender diverse students, who often have internalised or hidden needs.

Our conferences have a strong emphasis on lived autistic experience. Alli will share her experience, insights, and strategies to support and understand autistic students.

Read more here.

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Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Melbourne
Mar
4

Calming Today's Anxious Kids - Melbourne

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.

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Vocal Odyssey: Meeting with the Spirit of your Voice
Feb
4
to 5 Feb

Vocal Odyssey: Meeting with the Spirit of your Voice

Alli will be guest speaking at this incredible online workshop hosted by Nessi Gomes. Please note, times shown here are in GMT.

This two-day online workshop is an invitation to sing, sound, voice, play, explore, reclaim and awaken all the different aspects of our vocal expression so that we can reconnect to our inner emotional landscape of feelings that may have been silenced and buried for too long.

When we discover that singing can provide a safe container to release the repressed aspects of our voice and soul, the power, healing and vitality which is expressed can be truly profound and transformational.

This journey will be recorded and delivered to you soon after the weekend has been completed. This means you will all be able to revisit and practice in your own time. The platform that we will use throughout the workshop is Zoom.

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