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05/06/2026

It may be cold and wintery outside , but inside Ravenswood Child and Family Learning Centre thoughtful inclusive practices are helping more children and families participate, connect, and belong.

Communication supports naturally embedded throughout the playgroup experiences; AAC and visual supports available within activities, providing multiple ways for children to communicate, make choices, share ideas, and participate in ways that work for them.

This is what happens when inclusion is considered from the start.

Not creating separate experiences.
Not expecting everyone to communicate in the same way.
Not treating accessibility as something that is only needed by a few people.

Instead, designing environments from the beginning so that more people can participate, communicate, and belong.

It was wonderful to see inclusive practice embedded so naturally within a community setting.

What examples of inclusion have you seen in your community recently?

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Video montage showing Ravenswood Child and Family Learning Centre indoor playgroup environment. Activities include sensory play, printing, visual communication supports, AAC resources, choice making supports, and play spaces arranged to support participation and engagement. No children are shown.

Too often, professional development is viewed as something that happens outside the workplace, a conference or webinar. ...
03/06/2026

Too often, professional development is viewed as something that happens outside the workplace, a conference or webinar. While these opportunities are valuable, one of the greatest sources of expertise is often already sitting within your team.

Every day, your team is learning new approaches, discovering resources, solving problems, attending training, and developing insights that could benefit others. Without intentional opportunities to share that knowledge, valuable expertise can remain siloed within individuals.

A simple practice such as scheduling purposeful time in team meetings for staff to share new learnings, evidence-based approaches, practical strategies, or reflections from recent professional development can have a significant impact with no addition to workloads.

The benefits extend far beyond learning.

These conversations help build trust, strengthen relationships, encourage collaboration, and create opportunities for people across all levels of an organisation to contribute their expertise. They also help teams recognise and value the diverse strengths, experiences, and perspectives that already exist within the workplace.

This is a practical strategy for building healthy workplace cultures.

When people feel their knowledge is valued, their voice is welcomed, and their contributions matter, they are more likely to feel connected, engaged, and invested in the success of the team.

The most effective workplace cultures aren't built through one-off initiatives. They're built through small, intentional practices that are repeated consistently over time.

What's one thing you have learned from a colleague?

If you're looking to strengthen inclusion, psychological safety, leadership capability, or learning culture within your organisation, Treehouse Training Collective can help. We work alongside organisations to build practical, innovative and inclusive workplaces where people can contribute, learn, and thrive.

29/05/2026

Inclusion is not a trend.
It is a leadership capability.

Increasingly, it will define the organisations that people trust, want to work for, and want to engage with into the future.

We are passionate about helping organisations move beyond performative inclusion and toward genuinely accessible, neuroaffirming and human-centred design. Because when businesses are designed with diverse ways of thinking, communicating and participating in mind, they work better for everyone.

Inclusive business design is about examining the hidden assumptions embedded within workplace culture, leadership, communication, recruitment, learning environments and service delivery.

⭐️Who thrives easily in your systems?
⭐️Who is unintentionally excluded?
⭐️ Who has to work harder just to. participate?

The most innovative organisations we see are the ones willing to ask these questions honestly.

As leaders, we have a responsibility to build our businesses with intention, curiosity, and a willingness to challenge traditional ways of operating. 💪

19/05/2026

Honour all communication preferences.
AAC can be an incredible support, but it is one tool within a much bigger communication system.
Speech, signs, gestures, visuals, scripting, body language, movement, facial expressions, and AAC are all forms of communication.
Supporting communication autonomy means listening to the message rather than focusing on whether the communication method looks the way adults expect.
Different communication methods meet different needs at different times.
Communication should feel accessible, safe, and respected.

Inclusive design starts with listening to lived experience, and this new communication board at Riverbend Park in Launce...
16/05/2026

Inclusive design starts with listening to lived experience, and this new communication board at Riverbend Park in Launceston shows how communities can shape their local spaces to be more accessible.

Lisa and Bel, as a part of the Inclusive Spaces Working Group - Launceston are hoping this will be the first of many communication boards in our community and it will spark connection, curiosity, and conversations about access and belonging.

12/05/2026

Calm is not passive. It’s powerful practice.
One of the most effective supports for a dysregulated child is not a consequence, reward chart, or script.
It’s your nervous system.
Children borrow regulation from the adults around them. When we stay steady, predictable, and connected during hard moments, we help create safety for a child whose brain and body may already feel overwhelmed.
That does not mean staying calm is easy.
It does not mean ignoring behaviour.
And it definitely does not mean allowing unsafe actions.
It means responding rather than reacting.
Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is:
• lower our voice
• slow our movements
• reduce our words
• stay alongside instead of escalating with them
Calm is not “doing nothing.”
It is active, intentional, co regulation.
Your regulated presence matters more than you think.

Mothers Day 💐Looking for a simple way to support connection and communication this Mother’s Day? Download this communica...
09/05/2026

Mothers Day 💐

Looking for a simple way to support connection and communication this Mother’s Day? Download this communication board to give everyone a way to participate in conversations, make choices, share messages, and celebrate in ways that feel meaningful to them.

Whether you’re at home, school, a café, or celebrating with family or friends, this board can support chatting about gifts, activities, favourite people, and special moments.

🔗 Download it from our website: https://www.treehousetraining.com/shop/p/mothers-day-chat-board

Teacher Assistants are often supporting some of the most vulnerable and overwhelmed children in our schools.They are the...
06/05/2026

Teacher Assistants are often supporting some of the most vulnerable and overwhelmed children in our schools.
They are the people navigating the hardest moments of the day; when a child is distressed, dysregulated, unable to meet expectations, or struggling to remain connected within the classroom environment.

This professional learning session has been designed specifically with that role in mind.

Together we will explore:
• understanding behaviour as communication
• recognising signs of overwhelm before escalation occurs
• supporting regulation in the moment
• practical neuro-affirming strategies that can be implemented immediately in real classrooms
• approaches that support safety, connection, and meaningful participation

This session is not about compliance or controlling behaviour.
It is about understanding the needs underneath behaviour, reducing distress, and creating environments where children are more able to function, learn, and remain connected.

Your registration now also includes a set of our double sided PVC visuals to take back to your setting and use immediately.

📍 Launceston
📅 Thursday June 5 (Student Free Day)

Places are limited.
Register: https://www.treehousetraining.com/our-courses

05/05/2026

Not all communication milestones are big or obvious.
Sometimes progress looks like:
• a single word
• a gesture
• exploring a new AAC button
• a small attempt to connect
And every one of these moments matters.

Celebrate every success — big or small.
Communication develops over time, through repeated attempts and experiences. When we pause to notice and respond to these small steps, we reinforce something important:
👉 Communication is valued in all its forms.
Those small moments are what build confidence, connection, and future communication.
Keep noticing.
Keep responding.
Keep celebrating.

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