Reframing the Busy Child Through a Sensory Lens
R250,00
This workshop is open for Occupational Therapists and the general public!
If you are an Occupational Therapist, please enter your HPCSA registration number below.
Course features:
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🌿 Why movement is essential, not optional – the “water” that regulates many children.
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🌻 How hypo-reactive children seek input because their systems are under-fuelled (“a big pot that needs more water”).
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🌱 How perception challenges affect body awareness, leading to sensory seeking behaviours (“roots searching for water”).
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🌵 Why hyper-reactive children may seek sensory input when they are dysregulated, even by everyday sensations (“a succulent in a tiny pot”).
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🍃 How praxis difficulties show up as uncertainty, despite good potential, and lead to sensory seeking behaviours (“a plant that needs a trellis to know where to grow”).
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Your learning journey begins now — enjoy 1 year of access to the workshop from your date of purchase!
Why do some children seem constantly on the go, bouncing, jumping, crashing, spinning, fidgeting, or touching everything in sight? Why do others move hesitantly, seem unsure of their bodies, or become overwhelmed by everyday sensations?
This 60-minute workshop offers a fresh, compassionate way to understand the “busy” child, not as naughty, disruptive, or unfocused, but as a child whose nervous system is communicating a need.
Grounded in Ayres Sensory Integration® and brought to life through powerful nature-based imagery, this workshop helps you see each child as a unique plant in a garden, with its own pot size, soil type, root system, sunlight needs, and watering rhythm.
You’ll learn:
🌿 Why movement is essential, not optional - the “water” that regulates many children.
🌻 How hypo-reactive children seek input because their systems are under-fuelled (“a big pot that needs more water”).
🌱 How perception challenges affect body awareness, leading to clumsiness or disorganisation (“roots searching for water”).
🌵 How hyper-reactive children can be overwhelmed, even by everyday sensations (“a succulent in a tiny pot”).
🍃 How praxis difficulties show up as uncertainty, despite good potential (“a plant that needs a trellis to know where to grow”).
Instead of focusing on reducing behaviours, we focus on understanding the sensory need beneath the behaviour - and how you can respond supportively.
You’ll walk away with:
✨ A simple, memorable framework for noticing what each child needs
✨ Practical, everyday sensory strategies (at home and in the classroom)
✨ A deeper sense of empathy for busy, cautious, overwhelmed, or disorganised movers
✨ A renewed confidence in your ability to support regulation and connection
This workshop is accessible, uplifting, and deeply validating for anyone who lives or works with children. It blends neuroscience with metaphor, research with real-life examples, and theory with gentle, practical tools you can use immediately.
By the end, you’ll be able to reframe behaviour through a sensory lens and ask:
What kind of plant is this child - and what kind of gardener does they need me to be?