For Professionals

A message for professionals: At Wiseheart Compass, we offer a variety of psychoeducational training services and resources for therapists, counsellors, teachers, allied health and health workers, tailored to support your unique professional and caregiving needs. All professional training opportunities deeply respect your valued contribution to society and aim to create a safe and supportive environment to enrich both your personal and professional lives.

The Welcome Mat™: Time-in for family support professionals with parenting responsibilities (online training opportunity).

This eight-week immersive online program offers the perfect balance for the unique circumstances of therapists, counsellors and teachers who are also parenting — designed to help them move from self-sacrifice, guilt and emotional exhaustion – to replenish their own wellbeing, feel at peace with good-enough parenting and show up in both roles with more ease and confidence. The training seamlessly integrates evidence informed mindfulness, self-compassion and attachment theory to support healthy boundary setting, burnout prevention, nervous system regulation and relationship repair solutions to protect security across development (birth-18 years).

MAP Time-in Instructor Training (hybrid training opportunity - 8 weeks online & 5-day in person):

Are you a qualified therapist, counsellor or psychotherapist interested in providing the 8-week group workshop series with parents in your local community?

Pre-requisite training is The Welcome Mat™ (8-week online training), and application and interview is required for the 5-day intensive training. This retreat style of training is inclusive of accommodation and meals and requires a time commitment of 7 days total (day 1 is required for travel/welcome evening and day 6 for goodbye evening/celebration on travel home on day 7).

Mindful Awareness Parenting (MAP™) Instructor Training: Promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of parents and young children (birth- 5 years) - opportunity for group/organisational training upon request.

This capacity building training model is a workforce development program congruent with priority 3 of the National Action Plan for the Health of Children and Young People 2020-2030. It was developed in 2004 and involves building good practice in infant, young child & parent mental health for a diverse range of family support service providers. The MAP™ Instructor Training provides participants with access to the latest research in applied attachment-based principles, interpersonal neurobiology, developmental psychology, mindful awareness & self-compassion. Professionals come away with the capacity to run the MAP™

Parent Workshop Series with the general population of parents of infants and young children within the local community. This training was designed as a 5-day intensive and highly supportive in-person training and can be provided on request for interested groups and organisations (minimum of 5 participants - maximum of 30 participants).

 
Mindful Awareness Parenting (MAP™) Instructor Refresher Training (online training - for instructors trained prior to 2025 only).

Mindfulness, self-compassion and developmental neuroscience and relationship repair resources: All training programs come with a rich suite of resources and supportive evidence informed practices. Regular resources are provided via email and via the Wiseheart Compass podcast.