Hey Little Warrior! is a structured, evidence-informed educator upskilling program for early childhood settings. Based on the bestselling children's books Hey Warrior and Hey Awesome, it equips educators with neuroscience-grounded strategies to support children aged 3–6 in understanding anxiety, calming big feelings, and building brave behaviour and emotional resilience.

The program comprises four sequenced components: a face-to-face workshop, the Hey Warrior children's book, a structured 11-topic lesson plan for embedding strategies into everyday play-based routines, and a follow-up coaching session supporting classroom implementation.

This program is aimed to help you to:

• understand the neuroscience of anxiety and big feelings in young children
• embed calming and brave-behaviour strategies into daily routines and play
• use the Hey Warrior book and lesson plan as an ongoing classroom resource and
• sustain implementation through structured follow-up coaching.

Expected outcomes for this program are:

• improved understanding of the neuroscience of anxiety and emotional development in early childhood
• improved ability to model and teach emotional regulation and calming strategies
• improved ability to embed brave-behaviour and co-regulation strategies into everyday play-based practice and
• improved ability to support diverse needs and engage families through shared brain-literacy language.

Educator training: 3-hour face-to-face workshop delivered to groups of educators. Covers the neuroscience of anxiety, the amygdala's role in fight-flight-freeze, practical strategies for responding to anxiety-fuelled behaviour, attachment and relational safety, mindfulness, and family engagement. One-hour post-workshop group coaching session via Zoom (included in training package), scheduled each semester to support educators embedding strategies into daily practice.

Resources: each participant receives a copy of the Hey Warrior children's book for classroom read-aloud and discussion, plus a structured 11-topic lesson plan with sequenced play-based activities (Making anxiety an ally, Introducing the amygdala, Building brave, Brain chatter, Mindfulness).

Three training delivery options:

(1) Educators attend a public workshop at a scheduled metropolitan or regional location, or

(2) In-house delivery face-to-face at the ECEC service for the whole educator team, or

(3) In-house live online delivery via Zoom.

All three options include all four program components.

Public workshops run during school terms in-house delivery is available year-round by arrangement.

8-week lead time requested for in-house workshops.

Public workshops (per person): early bird $235.45, standard $280.91 incl. catering, book, lesson plan, certificate, Zoom coaching.

In-house workshops (per service 25 staff): $4,400 base incl. book, lesson plan, certificate, Zoom coaching excl. venue, AV, catering (provided by service). Additional staff (26–50): $109.09 per person. In-person: charged based on by location (flights, car hire/transfers, accommodation). Live online via Zoom: no travel cost.

All costs GST exclusive.