Playful Possibilities

24/08/2025

Two Legends. One Big Thank You. All About You.

To celebrate you – the heart and soul of early learning – The Fraser Foundation is bringing you not one, but two free webinars as our gift for Early Educators Day. This wouldn’t be possible without support from Preschool Equipment.

✨ Nathan Wallis Thursday 4th Sept at 6.30pm – neuroscience made fun, fascinating, and seriously useful. Nathan will unpack how little brains develop and how you can harness that knowledge in your classroom (and beyond). Booking Link - https://bit.ly/FFWebinarNathan

✨ Maggie Dent Tuesday 9th Sept at 6.30pm – Australia’s queen of common sense. Maggie will guide you through powerful, practical ways to nurture resilience and wellbeing in children – while giving you the tools to look after yourself too. Booking Link - https://bit.ly/FFWebinarMaggie

These webinars are completely free, online, and open to all early childhood professionals. Think of it as a professional development hug – filling your cup with inspiration, strategies, and maybe even a few “aha!” moments.

08/08/2025

One of our regular collaborations has had changes to their program for the rest of 2025, meaning that I now have availability to offer 3 more group sessions prior to the end of this year.

Kindys, daycares, schools, workplaces and community groups our full catalogue is sure to have a ready to launch program perfect for you. Contact today for a copy of our session offerings and price guide.

06/08/2025

💛 Save the Mackay Toy Library! We Need Your Help 💛

This smiling face belongs to one of the incredible women who has been keeping the Mackay Toy Library alive for years. She has dedicated her time to helping local families borrow toys, reduce waste and build community… and now she is retiring.

Without new volunteers, this much‑loved service will not survive past 2025.

I have put my hand up to volunteer just 2 hours a fortnight. If I can do that with two kids and a busy schedule, I know others can too. A couple of hours is all it takes to make sure our kids and our community do not lose this gem.

Why it matters

Toy rotation keeps play fresh and your home clutter‑free

Volunteers save money with free membership and borrowing fees

It builds connection with other local families and counts toward your CCS activity hours

It is sustainable and keeps great toys out of landfill

Even a few hours a month can keep this beautiful service alive. Shifts are flexible, child‑friendly and full of support.

📍 Find out how to help: www.mackaytoylibrary.org.au

Let’s come together to keep the Mackay Toy Library bringing joy and learning to local kids for years to come.

01/06/2025

Join me as we explore self regulation strategies that can support us in the whirlwind world of parenting.

Keeping Cool, Calm & Collected in the Chaos 😅😟😓

Join us for our FREE upcoming workshop on everything emotional regulation! We’ll explore building emotional resilience and self-regulation skills to create a calmer, more connected home through practical skills including:

✨ Understand your stress responses and regulate emotions effectively.
✨ Strengthen your relationship with your child through connection.
✨ Respond to challenging behaviours with empathy and confidence.

📅 Wednesday 11th June | 🕒 9:30am to 11am 📍 43 Shakespeare Street
📲 Spots are limited—email tonim@tnhub.org.au to secure your spot

13/05/2025

For families who have had contact with QLD Child Safety in the last 5 years there is currently a survey circulating to allow you to have a say on your experience.

To often voices can get lost within systems so I think it is important that avenues like this do exist so that confidential opportunities to speak up allow for all of our community to do better.

This survey is for parents in Queensland (QLD) that have had experiences with the Child Protection / Child Safety system.

06/05/2025

I can't wait 💛

17/03/2025

It's World Social Work Day!

Being a Social Worker is so core to who I am, but who I am has changed in these last few years. I am now 2 years into my own motherhood journey (the most rewarding, testing and fantastic learning journey of my life so far), through it you have watched me reshape Playful Possibilities to allow me to best show up in a way that prioritizes my family while still feeding my passion to offer support to families in our community. For those who know me, I don't do anything without far to much reflection and potential overthinking going on behind it. One of the most recent points of reflection for me is 'who am I as a social worker in this chapter?' To answer this my fabulous supervisor guided me to reflect on my 'mission statement', 'elevator pitch' or 'philosophy'. So here it is in honor of the theme of World Social Work Day 'Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing'.

A big thank you to the local organizations who continue to book my educational and supervision services, I appreciate your work so much and can't wait to play, sit, jump, splash and more in all the puddles ahead (an ever appropriate metaphor with all this rain around at the moment).

And if you made it this far, let me know what does the idea of strengthening our communities from an intergenerational perspective mean to you?

03/10/2024

Our Building Brains workshop is back! 🧠✨

Join us for this FREE workshop with Playful Possibilities , where you’ll dive deep into supporting your child's development using neuroscience. 🌟👶💡

Don’t miss out! Email chloeb@tnhub.org,au

06/08/2024

JOIN ME TOMORROW- limited spaces remain
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Do you want strategies to support times of transition, challenges in executive functioning and social skills with children?

If so, this is the workshop for you!

Join Courtney from Playful Possibilities for a FREE workshop where she will give you tips to support children's emotional development.

📆 Wednesday 7th August
⏰ 9:30 - 11:30
📍 The Neighborhood Hub - 43 Shakespeare Street

Email chloeb@tnhub.org,au to register

17/07/2024

So excited to be back delivering this jam packed condensed version of Building Brains to you at no cost thanks to the amazing work of The Neighbourhood Hub!

Will I see you there?

Do you want to know more about the following topics?

🧠Child and adolescent development
🧠Attachment, connection and circle of security
🧠Understanding the function of behaviour and strategies to decode challenging behaviours
🧠De-escalation and crisis management
🧠Co-regulating strategies: Preventing crisis and promoting self-regulating skills
🧠Common mental health concerns and presentations in childhood and adolescence
🧠Parent, teacher and carer self care and visions for future

Join us and Playful Possibilities for a FREE workshop that will cover these topics and more.

Email chloeb@tnhub.org.au to secure your spot.

05/07/2024

Do you have parenting questions you want answered? Concerned about your child's behaviour or mental health?

Would a 90 minute once off consult be useful to you? I'm gauging interest in this potential service offering in addition to the consulting and educating work our service is offering currently.

Our ongoing therapy service is still closed at this time.

09/03/2024

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