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Online Courses
Short, practical online courses designed for busy educators - offering thoughtful strategies to create environments that support connection, curiosity and deep thinking.
Nature Art
Explore simple, achievable ways to use natural materials in meaningful art experiences.
Support children to feel settled, engage deeply and express themselves through sensory-rich, open-ended exploration.
2.5 Hr Workshop
Loose Parts
Discover how loose parts can transform play by offering children opportunities to investigate, problem-solve and express their ideas. Learn practical ways to design open-ended experiences that honour children as capable, curious learners.
30 minutes
In-Person Workshops
Our in-person workshops and keynote sessions bring thoughtful conversations, practical ideas and a tailored approach to professional learning - shaped around your centre, your team and the children you support.
Learn how to use art to support emotional regulation, expression and connection.
Led by art therapist Mel Wangmann, alongside Bec and Jen, this focused workshop will give you the confidence to bring meaningful, process-driven art experiences into your everyday practice.
2.5 Hr Presentation
Therapeutic Art
Explore the difference between observing children and really noticing them in this inspiring keynote by Jen Harbottle. Through unforgettable classroom stories and practical reflections, Jen demonstrates how looking beyond behaviour allows educators to uncover children’s remarkable thinking, creativity and capability.
1.5 Hr Presentation
The Art of Noticing
Our courses are for you if…
You want to create experiences that invite curiosity, creativity and deeper thinking.
You’re looking for thoughtful, achievable ideas that work in your setting.
You want to better understand and support children’s emotions, behaviour and engagement.
You want to rethink how materials are offered to create richer opportunities for exploration and discovery.
Nature Art
Explore simple, achievable ways to use natural materials in meaningful art experiences.
Support children to feel settled, engage deeply and express themselves through sensory-rich, open-ended exploration.
$49.00
What you’ll learn
Ways to slow the pace of art experiences and support curiosity, connection and deeper engagement.
How to design thoughtful provocations that invite children to explore, experiment and play.
How natural materials can be used to create beautiful, open-ended art experiences that honour children's ideas and creativity.
How to create environments where children feel settled, focused and free to express themselves.
$49.00
Loose Parts
Discover how loose parts can transform play by offering children opportunities to investigate, problem-solve and express their ideas. Learn practical ways to design open-ended experiences that honour children as capable, curious learners.
$49.00
What you’ll learn
How to thoughtfully introduce loose parts and create environments that invite exploration, creativity and possibility.
Ways to design open-ended play experiences that spark curiosity and support children as capable, confident learners.
How knowledge of schemas can transform the way you observe, interpret and respond to children's play.
$49.00
Therapeutic Art
Discover how art can support emotional regulation, expression and connection. Join art therapist Mel Wangmann, Bec and Jen for a focused workshop exploring practical ways to embed meaningful, process-driven art experiences into your everyday practice.
Delivered at your centre or in our private art therapy studio.
Enquire for a tailored quote
The Deeper Work of Creative Process
In therapeutic practice, we don't ask children to explain their art - we notice the process. How they move, repeat, press into materials and return to an experience can tell us what words cannot.
These moments offer insight into a child's inner world. Through art, the nervous system expresses, explores and processes experience. When art becomes outcome-focused, creativity can narrow. When it is process-driven, children have greater opportunities for regulation, curiosity and healthy development.
This workshop invites you to see art differently and explore how your environment, materials and responses shape children's experiences. With this understanding, art becomes more than a creative activity - it becomes a powerful way to support connection, emotional wellbeing and development.
Created in partnership with Expressive Arts’ Therapist Mel Wangmann
Mel Wangmann is the founder of Ipsarty, a Creative Care Collective, and a Registered Arts Psychotherapist. Drawing on her experience in arts psychotherapy, Mel helps educators understand the powerful role that art, play and thoughtfully designed environments can have in supporting children's emotional wellbeing. Grounded in evidence and real-world practice, Mel's workshop offers practical, achievable ways to use process-driven art to strengthen regulation, connection and emotional wellbeing in early learning settings.
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The Art of Noticing
Explore the difference between observing children and really noticing them in this inspiring keynote by Jen Harbottle.
Through unforgettable classroom stories and practical reflections, Jen demonstrates how looking beyond behaviour allows educators to uncover children’s remarkable thinking, creativity and capability.
$250.00
Behaviour is visible. Thinking isn't.
Children reveal who they are every day - but are we noticing?
In this inspiring keynote, Jennifer Harbottle explores the difference between observing children and truly noticing them. Through unforgettable classroom stories and practical reflections, she demonstrates how looking beyond behaviour allows educators to uncover children's remarkable thinking, creativity and capability.
Rather than adding another task to an already busy profession, Jen shows how noticing actually simplifies teaching. When we understand children more deeply, behaviour makes sense, curriculum becomes authentic and relationships flourish.
This keynote is a celebration of children's extraordinary minds - and a reminder of the profound influence educators have in helping children see their own potential.
Created by Early Childhood Teacher Jen Harbottle
Jen is an early childhood teacher, keynote speaker and co-founder of Creative Ways Collective, where she inspires educators to see children - and themselves - through a new lens.
With a background in journalism before moving into early childhood education, Jen combines powerful storytelling with years of classroom experience to challenge conventional thinking about children's behaviour, capability and learning.
Known for her inquiry-based approach and unforgettable classroom stories, Jen believes the greatest gift an educator can offer a child is to be deeply seen. Her work has inspired educators to rethink observation, curriculum and the role of the teacher through one simple but profound idea:
Behaviour is visible. Thinking isn't.
Jen lives and teaches in Queensland, where she continues to learn alongside young children every day.