Workshops & Professional Development
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Professional Development + Speaking
Practical learning. Deep clinical knowledge. Designed for the real world.
At GROW, professional development is about more than sharing information. We want teams to leave with a better understanding of the why, practical strategies they can use, and ideas that translate into their everyday work.
Choose from a short and practical PD session, an interactive workshop, a tailored workplace learning series, specialist paediatric feeding education, or engage Jessie for your next conference or event.
PD Express
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60 minutes | From $650 + GST
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Practical. Focused. Immediately useful.
PD Express is designed for busy teams wanting high-quality professional development that fits within a staff meeting, professional learning session or workplace PD schedule.
Choose from one of our existing professional development topics, with light tailoring to suit your audience and setting.
Topics may include:
• Understanding and responding to complex behaviour
• The brain behind behaviour
• Regulation before expectation
• Supporting children through transitions and tricky moments
• Behaviour as communication
• Feeding, mealtimes and participation
What’s included:
• 60-minute facilitated professional development session
• Evidence-informed content
• Practical strategies for everyday environments
• Opportunity for questions and discussion
• Supporting resources
• Light tailoring for your audience
Suitable for:
- Early childhood services
- Schools
- Allied health teams
- Community organisations
- Other workplaces supporting children and families.
Interactive Workshop
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2 hours | From $950 + GST
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Learn it. Discuss it. Apply it.
For teams wanting more than a presentation, our Interactive Workshop provides time to explore a topic in greater depth and consider what it actually looks like in practice.
Alongside evidence-informed learning, participants are encouraged to discuss, problem-solve and apply concepts to real-world situations.
Topics can include complex behaviour, regulation, communication, inclusion, development and mealtimes.
What’s included:
• 2-hour facilitated interactive workshop
• Evidence-informed learning
• Practical activities and team discussion
• Case examples and real-world scenarios
• Strategies that can be applied within your setting
• Supporting resources
• Dedicated time for questions and problem solving
PD Deep Dive
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Two-part tailored series | From $1,650 + GST
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Your team. Your workplace. Your challenges.
Sometimes a one-off professional development session isn’t enough.
PD Deep Dive is designed for organisations wanting professional learning that responds directly to what is happening within their workplace.
Before we begin, team members complete a short pre-PD survey. Responses are reviewed to identify common themes, challenges and learning needs, allowing the professional development to be shaped around your team.
Part One — Understand
We explore the foundations: brain development, regulation, behaviour as communication, developmental expectations and the reasons we may see particular behaviours.
Between sessions — Apply
Your team takes the learning back into the workplace, trials strategies and notices what works, what remains challenging and what needs further exploration.
Part Two — Unpack + Respond
We come back together to explore your team’s experiences, unpack real workplace scenarios, problem-solve challenges and build practical strategies for moving forward.
What’s included:
• Pre-PD team survey
• Review and analysis of responses
• Professional development tailored to identified workplace needs
• Two facilitated professional learning sessions
• Practical implementation period between sessions
• Real workplace scenarios incorporated into session two
• Supporting resources
• Reflection and problem-solving opportunities
• Practical next steps for the team
Paediatric Feeding PD
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From $950 + GST
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Go beyond “picky eating”
Paediatric feeding is complex. Eating is influenced by development, medical history, sensory processing, motor skills, oral-motor function, regulation, environment, relationships and previous feeding experiences.
Our specialist paediatric feeding professional development is designed for allied health and health professionals wanting to build confidence in understanding and supporting children with feeding difficulties.
Content can include:
• Typical feeding development
• Paediatric Feeding Disorder
• ARFID
• Feeding skill versus behaviour
• Oral-motor development
• Sensory, motor, medical and environmental contributors
• Feeding and regulation
• Identifying red flags
• Mealtime assessment
• Supporting families without pressure
• Complex feeding presentations
• Tube feeding and tube-to-oral considerations
• Multidisciplinary feeding care
• Knowing when and where to refer
Suitable for: Allied Health Professionals
Feeding Foundations
- 2-hour specialist workshop
- From $950 + GST
A focused introduction or refresher for professionals wanting to strengthen their understanding of paediatric feeding assessment and intervention.
Includes evidence-informed teaching, clinical examples, practical considerations, resources and opportunity for questions.
Paediatric Feeding Series
- Tailored multi-session professional development
- From $1,850 + GST
For teams wanting to develop deeper clinical knowledge and confidence, a tailored series can be developed around the experience, discipline mix and learning needs of your team.
Conferences + Events
Conferences | Workshops | Panels | Professional Events
Looking for a speaker who can bring clinical experience, evidence and the realities of everyday practice together?
Jessie Anderson is a senior paediatric speech pathologist, feeding therapist, educator and lecturer with approximately 20 years of clinical experience working alongside children, families, educators, health professionals and multidisciplinary teams.
Jessie presents on topics including:
• Paediatric feeding and mealtimes
• Disability and inclusion
• Behaviour, regulation and the developing brain
• Regional and rural healthcare
• Complex paediatric care
• Multidisciplinary practice
• Early childhood development
• Translating clinical evidence into everyday practice
Presentations can also be developed specifically around the audience, theme and objectives of your event.
Speaking fees are quoted according to the event, presentation requirements, preparation and location.
Enquire about Jessie speaking at your event.
Need something a little different?
We know that workplaces, teams and communities are different.
GROW can develop tailored professional development, workshops and learning series around the needs of your organisation.
Tell us a little about your team, what you’re seeing and what you’d like to achieve, and we can help determine the best format.
Enquire about tailored professional development
Pricing + Travel
Prices listed are starting prices and exclude GST.
Standard pricing includes preparation and delivery within the scope outlined for each professional development option. Additional consultation, significant content customisation, additional resources or extended session times may incur an additional fee and will always be discussed prior to booking.
Face-to-face professional development is available throughout Albury–Wodonga and surrounding regional communities.
Travel outside our standard local service area may incur additional travel fees. Where significant travel is required, accommodation, flights, transport and other reasonable travel expenses may also apply.
A tailored quote will be provided before your booking is confirmed.
Online professional development is also available, allowing us to work with teams across Australia.
For larger organisations, multi-site delivery, full-day training or ongoing professional learning programs, please contact us for a tailored quote.