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30/10/2025

🎃 Caption: “Spooky Playfulness for Connection”

Halloween isn’t just about costumes and candy — it’s a reminder that playfulness is powerful. 👻✨

Play invites connection, curiosity, and joy — even when things feel a little spooky or uncertain.

In DDP-informed practice, leading with PACE — Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy — helps children (and adults!) feel safe to explore, express, and engage.

This Halloween, consider:
🌿 What playful moment can you create today?
🌿 How can curiosity and fun help you connect?
🌿 Can a little silliness break tension and invite joy?

Even in masks and costumes, connection is what truly lights up the room. 🕯️🎃

30/10/2025

🌟 Leah has just wrapped up DDP PACE in Parramatta! 🌟

What an incredible few days journeying through DDP PACE with a super group of educators, carers, and practitioners, who travelled from Queensland, Tasmania and New South Wales!

This group brought curiosity, courage, and compassion into every discussion — exploring connection, co-regulation, and the heart of relationship-based practice.

It’s always inspiring to see people from different roles come together, united by a shared commitment to understanding and supporting young people and families.

A huge thank you to Compass Seminars AUS for offering these public events and to everyone who showed up with openness and heart!

Feeling grateful for the learning, laughter, and reflection we shared 💛

29/10/2025

🌿 Caption: “The power of gratitude”

Gratitude isn’t about pretending everything is fine — it’s about noticing what’s good even when things feel hard.

Research continues to show that practising gratitude can:
✨ Support emotional regulation
✨ Reduce stress and anxiety
✨ Strengthen relationships
✨ Improve sleep and overall wellbeing

When we pause to acknowledge the small moments — a kind word, a deep breath, a sunrise, a sense of being understood — we’re training our minds to orient toward safety and connection, rather than threat and overwhelm.

Gratitude gently reminds our nervous system: there is still goodness here.

It doesn’t erase pain or struggle — it helps hold it with perspective and compassion.

Today, maybe start small.
One thing.
One moment.
One person you’re grateful for. 🌻

26/10/2025

Two supervision spaces have opened up for the remainder of 2025, carrying through into 2026.

These spaces are an invitation to pause, reflect, and invest in you — the practitioner, the human, and the heart behind the work.

Investing in yourself isn’t indulgent — it’s essential.

The work we do asks so much of us: to stay open, attuned, and emotionally available, even when the stories are heavy and the systems are complex.
Supervision is a space to refill your cup — to think, feel, and make sense of the work with curiosity, compassion, and care.

It’s a space to:
🌿 Reconnect with why you do this work
🌿 Explore what the work is evoking in you
🌿 Strengthen your reflective capacity and resilience
🌿 Stay grounded in DDP principles of connection, acceptance, and empathy

When we invest in ourselves, we strengthen our capacity to be present for others.

✨ DDP-informed supervision
🌻 Individual and group spaces available
💻 Online and Sunshine Coast-based

If you’re ready to create space for reflection and renewal — reach out.

23/10/2025

🌿 Caption: “Pocket-Sized Pieces of Parenting — Ready to Launch!”

Our pocket-size pieces of PACE have been flying off the shelves — and now we’re so excited to announce that our Pocket-Size Pieces of Parenting are ready to launch! 🌟

These handy guides are packed with the DDP Parenting Principals — making it easy for parents or carers to carry and support their connection, reflection, and inspiration wherever they go.

Perfect for practitioners, parents, and anyone wanting to keep the heart of DDP parenting close at hand.

Let us know your interest today and be among the first to secure your set!

21/10/2025

📣 Hobart – DDP Level 1 is only 2 weeks away!
Are you a Counsellor, Therapist, Mental Health Clinician or Nurse supporting clients with a history of relational or developmental trauma?

This training is for you.

🧠 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an attachment-focused, family-based model developed by Clinical Psychologist Dan Hughes. It’s built on the foundations of:

🧒 Attachment theory

🧬 The neurobiology of trauma

🧍‍♂️ Developmental psychology

👥 Intersubjectivity

DDP supports professionals in helping children and families heal from trauma and build secure relationships. It promotes reciprocity in care and therapy, recognising the impact of abuse and neglect on development and attachment.

📍 Hobart, November 2025
🎓 This Level 1 course is essential learning for those working in:

Child protection

Out of home care

Youth mental health

Family therapy

🔗 More info & registration:
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21/10/2025

Brisbane - SOLD OUT
Canberra - SOLD OUT

Hobart - count me in!

Rare opportunity to attend DDP Level 1 in Tasmania
Come for the training, and stay for the weekend 😊

Hobart | 10 - 13 November 2025

Early Bird tickets end soon. Save $300
Group discounts available

https://www.compassaustralia.com.au/event/dyadic-developmental-psychotherapy-level-ddpl1hob101125

19/10/2025

This week, we honour the millions of individuals living with disabilities that aren’t immediately visible — and yet, are deeply felt.

Invisible Disabilities Week (October 19–25) is a time to listen, believe, and support. It’s about acknowledging that just because a disability isn’t visible doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

Conditions like chronic pain, anxiety, autoimmune disorders, brain injuries, and neurodivergence often go unseen — but they shape lives, careers, and communities in profound ways.

This week, let’s commit to:
🌿 Listening without judgment
🌿 Believing experiences that are shared
🌿 Supporting inclusive spaces and conversations

Because when we see the invisible, we make the world more accessible for everyone.

15/10/2025

Homeward bound and full of gratitude🌴✈️

This week Leah’s had the privilege of delivering two days of DDP PACE training to a passionate group of practitioners from Centacare FNQ and Act for Kids here in beautiful Townsville.

Together we explored how PACE — Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy — can deepen our relational practice and create safety and connection for the children, young people and families we support.

It’s always such a privilege to sit in shared learning with practitioners who bring heart, reflection, and commitment to this work. Leah is leaving with a full brain and full heart — grateful for the conversations, insights and laughter along the way. 💛

Thank you Compass Seminars Australia for always hosting such successful trainings with the most amazing food!

14/10/2025

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month

For us, this month carries deep personal significance. Leah and her family know first-hand the heartbreak of a stillbirth and the way it changes you forever. It is a grief that can feel invisible, unspoken, or even silenced—yet it deserves to be acknowledged and held with compassion.

Each year in Australia, around 3,000 families experience the stillbirth or newborn loss of their baby. When we include miscarriage and early pregnancy loss, the number is far greater. Behind every number is a family whose world has been forever altered.

That’s why awareness matters. By speaking openly, we create space for families to share their stories, honour their babies, and feel less alone in their grief. We also shine a light on the support and resources available for those navigating this painful path.

On October 15, International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, the invites people around the world to light a candle at 7pm in memory of the babies who are no longer with us. This simple but powerful gesture is a way to stand in solidarity, to remember, and to send love to grieving families everywhere.

If you have walked this road, or if you stand alongside someone who has, I invite you to join me in lighting a candle. Together, we can break the silence and hold space for love, remembrance, and hope. 💜🕯️

13/10/2025