Move your staff from 'survival mode' to professional competence.
Educators today are managing more than just curriculum. They are managing complex student mental health, trauma responses, and behavioural dysregulation.
Without a framework to handle this emotional load, teachers risk compassion fatigue and burnout. They spend valuable instructional time managing disruptions, often feeling deskilled or overwhelmed by repetitive cycles of reactive discipline.
We partner with schools to embed 'Tuning in to Students®', a clinical-grade framework developed by the University of Melbourne.
This isn't just another PD. It is a protective factor for your staff's mental health. By equipping teachers with the micro-skills of Emotion Coaching, we help them de-escalate dysregulation early and mitigate psychosocial risk (specifically addressing the 'Poor Support' hazard).
What Your Staff Will Learn:
The Iceberg Model: How to look beneath surface behaviours to identify the underlying need (e.g., Autonomy, Belonging, Competence).
Teacher Self-Regulation: Practical strategies to recognise their own 'window of tolerance' and regulate their stress response in the heat of the moment.
De-escalation Scripts: Exactly what to say to defuse 'big feelings' (Anger, Anxiety) before they become behavioural incidents.
Relational Safety: How to build the emotional safety required for the 'learning brain' to switch back on.
We teach staff to navigate the 'Two Icebergs' in the room:
The student's unmet needs, and the teacher's own stress triggers.
Managing Psychosocial Risk: Serves as a primary control measure for 'Violence & Aggression' by equipping staff with de-escalation scripts that prevent behavioural incidents. It also mitigates 'Role Overload' by reducing the emotional drain of constant reactive discipline.
Protecting Instructional Time: Teachers learn to catch emotional dysregulation early (the 'rumbling' stage), preventing escalation and preserving valuable learning time that is usually lost to managing disruptions.
Teacher Retention: Clinical research trials confirm that TIS training significantly improves teachers' ability to cope with stress, directly reducing the emotional exhaustion that leads to staff attrition.
Consistent Culture: Creates a shared language for behaviour support across the entire staff, integrating seamlessly with existing frameworks like SWPBS (School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support).
We prioritise sustained capability over one-off inspiration. However, we offer staged entry points to suit your current operational capacity.
Establishing a Shared Language
Format: 2-3 hour interactive workshop (Staff Meeting or PD Day).
The Goal: To shift the narrative from 'Behaviour Management' to 'Relational Safety.'
The Outcome: This is the 'Awareness' phase. We introduce the 5-step Emotion Coaching model and the 'Iceberg' concept. Staff leave with a shared understanding of why dysregulation happens, but this session is designed to start the conversation, not complete the training.
Deep Practice & Implementation
Format: 1 Full Day + 2 x 120-min Implementation Sessions.
The Goal: To move from 'knowing' the theory to 'doing' the practice.
The Outcome: This is the 'Competence' phase. We do the deep work on 'Meta-Emotion' (understanding the teacher's own triggers). This format provides the time required to rewire reactive habits and embed the scripts into daily practice.
The Ecological Approach
Format: Parallel Implementation (Parent Workshops delivered alongside Staff Training).
The Goal: To reduce the friction between home and school by aligning the emotional scripts.
The Outcome: When parents and teachers speak a different emotional language, conflict occurs. We equip your parent community with the exact same regulation strategies your teachers are learning. The result is a 'consistent container' for the child—and a significant reduction in parent-teacher friction. Parents become partners in the process, rather than consumers of the product.
The 'Teacher's Iceberg' Stream
Ideal for: Year Level Coordinators, Heads of House, Heads of Student Wellbeing, & Early Career Teachers.
The Context: In the workshops above, we teach staff to look beneath the surface of the student's behaviour. But high-demand pastoral roles often require us to look beneath the surface of the educator's response.
Format: Confidential 1:1 Debriefs using the iEQ9 Enneagram—a clinical-grade profiling tool used globally to map motivation and stress responses.
The Focus: We identify the leader's specific 'Stress Signature.' We explore why certain student behaviours (e.g., defiance vs. withdrawal) trigger a reactive response in them. We map the 'Teacher's Iceberg'—identifying the unmet needs or internal pressures that drive their professional exhaustion.
The Outcome: A personalised regulation plan that separates the role from the self. This protects the leader from compassion fatigue and ensures they can sustain high-performance care without burnout.
Let’s discuss how TIS can support your 2026 Wellbeing Strategy.