FIVE SHIFTS TO TRANSFORM YOUR CLASSROOM
A Childosophy Event
A free webinar for educators
Monday 31st August 2026 - 7pm
Imagine walking into your classroom on Monday and instead of spending half your day managing behaviour, you immediately recognise what every challenging behaviour is actually trying to communicate.
The exhaustion is real
The system is no longer fit for purpose.
Behaviour plans that don't change behaviour.
Increasing diagnoses with decreasing support.
Teachers who are frustrated and overworked.
And children who are struggling in ways that feel bigger than any
single strategy can address.
This webinar introduces you to the five simple shifts that change everything
about how a classroom feels.
Why people love the framework
"Maxine’s Foundational Needs Model weaves together psychology, family systems theory, chakra theory, philosophy, physiology, neuroscience, and epigenetics, her work illuminates the world of the child in a completely new light, and sheds deeper understanding for adults of themselves also, so the work becomes not only a tool to better reach teaching and parenting potential, but also to improve adult emotional intelligence."
MELANIE GREBLO
Humans of purpose
"I use the Childosophy chart with children who may be in distress or imbalance in some way, to assist us both to ascertain the unmet foundational need and the way the child needs to rebalance. It is a quick check in that gets right to the heart of the issue, without delving too deeply or taking too much time away from the class. In this way, the children in my class are able to stay aligned in their feelings, thoughts and actions throughout the day."
STEPHANIE GILLIES
SURFSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL
"Maxine's work really helps parents look beyond the behaviour. That's something I think is critical: not just looking at what's happening for a child in the moment, but what might be going on underneath the behaviour itself. For those who are struggling, or whose kids are struggling, and you're wondering, "Are they misbehaving?" Maxine would say they're not misbehaving, they're simply communicating an unmet foundational need."
KERRI
QUANTIMAMA
Why you cannot miss this powerful webinar
- This webinar introduces a fundamental shift from managing behaviour to understanding its meaning.
- This isn't another behaviour management strategy that gets added to the toolbox and forgotten. The five shifts give educators a framework they can return to in any classroom, with any child, in any challenging moment.
- You will understand that the same behaviour can mean completely different things for different children.
- This isn't just about creating calmer classrooms. It's about changing the experience a child has of themselves, their teacher and their place in the classroom.
Rediscover your 'why' in becoming a teacher
This webinar isn't about giving you one more thing to do.
It's about giving you a different way to understand what is already happening in your classroom.
Dr Maxine Thérèse brings more than 25 years of experience supporting children, families and educators, underpinned by her PhD research into childhood development, foundational needs and wellbeing.
As the founder of Childosophy, and creator of the Foundational Needs Model, she brings together psychology, philosophy, family systems, trauma-informed practice and nervous-system science to offer educators a radically different way of understanding children and behaviour.
