# Event Details - **Event Name**: Foundational Music Skills Training Day for Early Educators- Cairns Region - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 23 Aug, 2026 at 09:30 am – Sun, 23 Aug, 2026 at 04:00 pm (+10:00) - **Event Description**: Learn practical, engaging music skills to support SEL through a culturally safe and trauma informed framework. No music experience needed.About this EventFeel uncertain about using music in your early learning space? You're not alone. Many educators love the idea of music but feel unsure where to start — or worry they're "not musical enough."This training changes that.Based on the innovative CARRM program and developed by Registered Music Therapist and Teacher Sarah Dunston, this full day, hands-on professional learning workshop equips you with a toolbox of practical, evidence-based strategies to support children's social emotional learning that you can use in your teaching practice- right away.This Training Covers:· Current research on complex trauma and child brain development· Simple and practical music and rhtyhm based strategies to support SEL and regulation.· Activities include: singing, movement, clapstick play, parachute play, body percussion, storytelling and sensory instruments· Opening and closing Talking Circles for reflection, calibration and connectionPerfect For:· Early childhood educators seeking practical and creative social-emotional learning strategies· Services supporting children who have experienced trauma· Teams wanting to adopt a trauma-informed framework into practice that also aspires to be culturally safe and First Nations focused· Educators preparing children for school transitionAbout Your Facilitator: Sarah Dunston brings 12+ years of experience as a Registered Music Therapist and Teacher. She developed her ECT professional learning programs as a result of her current HDR research studies through Griffith University's Creative Arts Research Institute as well as throguh her work at Act for Kids — running music therapy programs for young children impacted by abuse and neglect. Sarah has presented this work at conferences in Australia and internationally, including the C&K Early Childhood Education Conference and the Trauma Aware Education Conference.Kindy UPLift Approved Melodica Music Therapy is an official Kindy UPLift supplier, meeting criteria for Social/Emotional Capability and Access/Inclusion priority areas.They are also positioned to provide training reflective of the shift in The Australian Early Years Learning Framework from "cultural competence" to "cultural responsiveness" (Australian Education and Care Quality, 2024)This event is catered (light lunch, tea and coffee provided).Please advise of dietry requirements when booking.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/__QlfBrj8FQ - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mighell/foundational-music-skills-training-day-for-early-educators-cairns-region/100001983835142314 - **Event Categories**: workshops, kids, business, meetups, conferences, live-music, art, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 250, max: 250, currency: AUD ## Event venue details - **city**: Mighell - **state**: QL - **country**: Australia - **location**: Innisfail Community Preschool & Kindergarten - **lat**: -17.533077 - **long**: 146.028039 - **full address**: Innisfail Community Preschool & Kindergarten, 14 Scullen Avenue, Mighell, Australia ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Foundational Music Skills Training Day for Early Educators- Cairns Region - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/23534ce499394913fdda8400272ce3b9a883a53c091d84754a311b5adbae20e5-rimg-w1200-h622-dcd7908e-gmir.jpg?v=1772335096 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Foundational Music Skills Training Day for Early Educators- Cairns Region being held? - **A:** Foundational Music Skills Training Day for Early Educators- Cairns Region takes place on Sun, 23 Aug, 2026 at 09:30 am to Sun, 23 Aug, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Innisfail Community Preschool & Kindergarten, 14 Scullen Avenue, Mighell, Australia. - **Q**: Who is organizing Foundational Music Skills Training Day for Early Educators- Cairns Region? - **A:** Foundational Music Skills Training Day for Early Educators- Cairns Region is organized by Melodica Music Therapy and Training. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Foundational Music Skills Training Day for Early Educators- Cairns Region is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Mighell, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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Sarah is also a Registered Teacher who is on a mission to empower and upskill early childhood educators to develop foundational music facilitation skills to support key areas of children's learning and development.In her extensive and varied 12+ years as a Registered Music Therapist and Teacher, she has gained a unique skillset as an experienced ECT Trainer, Workshop Facilitator, Researcher and Trauma Informed Music Therapy Clinician. Her programs and workshops have been created as a result of her current studies through the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University investigating how Talking Circles and other Indigenious frameworks and processes can be used in early childhood trauma informed professional learning as a tool for connection ,reflection and cultural safety. This has been process of profound expansion for Sarah, on both a professional and personal level and her passion, openness and endless curiosity about what it means to create safety and healing through music and connection is a driving force in all her work. As well as this, her experience running a music therapy program for eight years in a Specialist Preschool for children impacted by abuse and neglect -continues to impact her work, process and purpose (always). Sarah would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land in which she works, studies and teaches. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be -Aboriginal Land." } ] } ] ```