Willow Tree OT Sunshine Coast

Willow Tree OT Sunshine Coast Outdoor Paediatric Occupational Therapy

Afternoon tea for our hungry explorers 🌈 🍎 🍍 🍊 🍐 🍉 🍌
15/05/2023

Afternoon tea for our hungry explorers 🌈 🍎 🍍 🍊 🍐 🍉 🍌

🎣 Stillness 🐠 patience 🐟 perseverance 🐠 awareness 🐟 eye-hand coordination 🐠 strength🎣 respect for the environment
14/05/2023

🎣 Stillness
🐠 patience
🐟 perseverance
🐠 awareness
🐟 eye-hand coordination
🐠 strength
🎣 respect for the environment

Connecting to, and appreciating, our auditory system 👂 ⚖️ by building a maze from sticks then leading each other. 🧠 Focu...
09/05/2023

Connecting to, and appreciating, our auditory system 👂 ⚖️ by building a maze from sticks then leading each other.

🧠 Focus as we filter out noise to connect with just our partner’s instructions
💚 Building opportunities for concentration as fun, helpful & joyful instead of frustration & stories that may have been communicated to our nervous system
➡️ Sense of direction
💚Being a safe friend and having a safe friend as we trust each other
♾️ Reflecting to connect the experience with a new and true story for our nervous system

Our little crew had a great time problem solving together in the maze 💚
09/05/2023

Our little crew had a great time problem solving together in the maze 💚

Good old rolling down the hill 💚 ⭐️ Core strength 💪 Stimulates muscles & ligaments for proprioceptive input⚖️ Stimulates...
05/05/2023

Good old rolling down the hill 💚
⭐️ Core strength
💪 Stimulates muscles & ligaments for proprioceptive input
⚖️ Stimulates the vestibular system to support balance
👀 Crossing the midline to support coordination, left/right brain communication & reading skills

Hide-and-seek is definitely one of our favourite activities to support making positive associations with: 🥷🏽 Problem sol...
04/05/2023

Hide-and-seek is definitely one of our favourite activities to support making positive associations with:
🥷🏽 Problem solving
🌟Impulse control
🕵🏽Planning
☘️Feeling safety in stillness
👂 Connecting to the auditory & visual system
💚 Sportsmanship, teamwork & flexibility

Laughter reduces levels of cortisol - nailed ✅ 🎨 🤡
03/05/2023

Laughter reduces levels of cortisol - nailed ✅ 🎨 🤡

The perfect ‘clinic’ 🥹 🌳 🌞💚
25/04/2023

The perfect ‘clinic’ 🥹 🌳 🌞💚

Nourishing deliciousness .bitty.acres Gluten Free Sourdough baking workshop 🥧 🥖 🍪
24/04/2023

Nourishing deliciousness .bitty.acres Gluten Free Sourdough baking workshop 🥧 🥖 🍪

Rosemary symbolises friendship & remembrance. Making rosemary wreaths was the perfect fine motor activity for our group ...
23/04/2023

Rosemary symbolises friendship & remembrance.

Making rosemary wreaths was the perfect fine motor activity for our group of friends in the lead up to Anzac Day. 🍃

Totally overjoyed to be back together for term 2 🏝️ 🌞 🍂
22/04/2023

Totally overjoyed to be back together for term 2 🏝️ 🌞 🍂

It was an honour to hold our first ‘regulation awareness through experience’ workshop for carers this week🌳 Our setting ...
06/04/2023

It was an honour to hold our first ‘regulation awareness through experience’ workshop for carers this week🌳

Our setting for this workshop was just as intentional as our setting for our group therapy - to signal safety.

Safety to receive support, to learn and share together, and to acknowledge the vital, rewarding and exhausting role of being a carer.

We discussed:
❓What is regulation?
🌺 The role of the Central Nervous System
🪜 Ladder of Regulation
🏃🏽‍♀️Strategies to support moving between states of Fight/ Flight/ Freeze/ Shutdown
💕 Healing the Nervous System

We experienced strategies for supporting Nervous System hygiene for ourselves and the children we support. 📓 ☀️ 💆‍♀️ 💧 🧠 🥗 🌿

How long has it been since you truly felt regulated and supported? As a therapist or carer?!

A reset is so powerful in bringing awareness to the feeling and strategies we aim to support our children with.

We plan to hold these workshops monthly in various locations, offering various regulatory and reset experiences, with an aim to empowering carers to support their little person’s self-regulation development.

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Sunshine Coast, QLD

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9:30am - 5pm

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