About the course

Built for centre directors and early childhood leaders who have a child in their care that no one quite knows how to reach. Maybe you've heard the term PDA. Maybe you haven't. What you do know is that standard behaviour approaches aren't working, your educators are exhausted and are doing their absolute best, but are still needing help.  This course gives your team a shared framework, a common language, and nervous-system-informed strategies they can use from day one - so the whole room responds with confidence, not just one educator.

Why This Matters To Your Centre:

If one educator in your team 'gets' PDA and the rest don't, you already know what happens. Your educators are doing their best but are still needing to call for help. The same child having a great day with one staff member and a melted down day with another. Parents asking why nobody else can settle their child. Incident reports piling up on your desk. This course closes that gap. When five of your educators complete The PDA Lens together, your team walks away with: • A shared framework for understanding what PDA actually is (and what it isn’t) • Consistent, nervous-system-informed responses across rooms and handovers • Language that aligns with the National Quality Standard, particularly QA1, QA5 and QA6 • Reduced behavioural escalations that currently require director intervention • Stronger family partnerships — parents of PDA children notice immediately when staff “get it” • Documented professional development that evidences your commitment to neurodiversity-affirming practice

Train 5 educators together so every room responds to PDA children with the same framework, same language, and same confidence.

Built on current research in nervous system regulation and neurodiversity-affirming practice, not outdated behaviour-management theory.

Practical strategies, declarative language, and environmental adjustments your team can apply in the room immediately after each module.

Meet Nikki & Ashleigh

Between us, we bring a qualified Early Childhood Teacher, a long-term centre director, a disability support worker, and an early intervention specialist. We have led teams, supported families, and worked alongside children whose nervous systems were working overtime in environments that didn't yet understand them.  We also both parent neurodivergent children — and Nikki parents a child with a PDA profile. So this work has never been purely professional for us. We know this from the inside. We built Attuned Village because when educators truly understand what's happening beneath the behaviour, everything changes. Not just for the child — for the whole room. This course is the training we wish had existed sooner. Nikki Annas and Ashleigh Raynor-Keith Co-founders, Attuned Village

What your team will learn Eight modules. One shared framework. A whole new way of seeing. Module 1: What PDA Actually Is (and Isn't) Moving beyond myths, blame, and behaviour charts. This module reframes PDA as a nervous system response rooted in anxiety — not defiance, manipulation, or poor parenting. Your team will finish this module seeing a child they thought they knew in an entirely new way. Module 2: The Nervous System Story Why demands feel like danger, not choice, for a child with PDA. This module goes beneath the behaviour and into the biology — because when we understand what's happening in the body, the behaviour finally makes sense. Module 3: Control, Autonomy and Safety Understanding the deep need for agency that drives PDA behaviour. This module explains why control-seeking isn't defiance — it's a nervous system trying to feel safe — and what that means for how we respond. Module 4: Behaviour as Communication Every behaviour is a message. This module teaches your team to read what a child is communicating through their actions, so they can respond to the need rather than manage the behaviour. Module 5: The Adult's Role — From Authority to Safe Anchor The most important shift in this course. This module explores what it means to move from authority figure to safe anchor, how to manage your own nervous system in the room, and what to do when you're running on empty. Module 6: Relationship Over Regulation Connection isn't separate from the work, it is the work. This module explores why relationship is the most powerful regulation tool available, and what building genuine trust with a PDA child actually looks like in practice. Module 7: Strategies and Implementation Practical, nervous-system-informed strategies your team can use from day one. This module bridges everything learned in the course into real classroom moments, what to say, how to position yourself, when to push and when to pull back. Module 8: Supporting the Whole Village PDA doesn't stay at the centre gate. This module looks at how to support families, communicate with parents who are exhausted and often blamed, and build a consistent approach across every environment a child moves through. All modules are self-paced and available immediately. Your team can work through together or independently, the shared language builds either way.

8 Chapters · 8 Lessons

  1. 1

    What PDA actually is (and isn't)

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      Module 1 - What PDA actually is, (and isn't)

  2. 2

    The Nervous System Story.

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      Module 2 - The Nervous System Story

  3. 3

    Control, Autonomy and Safety.

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      Module 3 - Control, Autonomy and Safety

  4. 4

    Behaviour as Communication.

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      Module 4 - Behaviour as Communication

  5. 5

    The Adults Role: From Authority to Safe Anchor.

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      Module 5 - The Adults Role

  6. 6

    Relationship Over Regulation.

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      Module 6 - Relationship over Regulation

  7. 7

    Strategies And Implementation.

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      Module 7 - Strategies and Implementation

  8. 8

    Supporting The Whole Village.

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      Module 8 - The Whole Village

What people are saying

From our early access cohort.

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I was so engrossed in it. Packed full of vital information that will assist educators in fully understanding the complexity and challenges of children with PDA. The course is amazing!!
Brooke A

Educator & Parent Of A Child with PDA

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I thought i had learnt everything there was to know about PDA. This course is so well written, so many practical strategies and it gave me relief knowing there were still things out there to try. i will definitely be recommending this course!
Trish D

SLSO - Primary school

Your team is ready. Are you?

Five licences. Eight modules. One shared framework that changes how your whole centre responds to children living with PDA.

$850.00

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