About Pathways
Pathways to Resilience is a not-for-profit trust based in Brisbane, serving communities across Australia. Our dedicated team delivers high-quality, practical workshops and programs designed to support wellbeing and build resilience. We do this by helping young people, educators, and families to view behaviour and emotions through a neuroscience lens, build strong and connected relationships, and model, teach, and support the development of social and emotional skills.
Our Values
The Pathways ethos puts to work applied neuroscience, which suggests that “it is not only what we do with children, but rather how are we going to be with children”. The team mobilise neuroscientific knowledge using a relational pedagogy to enhance the wellbeing of both children and the workforce.
Our Mission
For over a decade, Pathways to Resilience has facilitated a range of social and emotional wellbeing programs that are informed by the Neurosequential Model of Education (Dr Bruce Perry) and the latest research drawn from the fields of applied neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, ECEC pedagogy and traumatology. Our evidenced programs have been developed to build the capacity of the early childhood workforce, understand the importance of supporting brain development in childhood and highlight the importance of co-regulation for educator wellbeing. Our consultants work with the Early Years workforce to mobilise understandings of how emotional regulation and relational wellbeing can support children with their life-long learning. Our coaching and mentoring programs translate the latest research from neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology into useable knowledge, providing both the background theory and strategies that can be used in everyday practice.
Point of Difference
Over the last decade, Pathways delivered co-created and place-based workshops, coaching and mentoring to build the capacity of 10,000 participants from the Early Years’ Workforce. The content and engagement is based on the latest research from neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. We translate research into useable knowledge, providing both the background theory and strategies that can be used in everyday practice by this diverse workforce.
Our Approach
Pathways’ workshops and programs build on a knowledge of the brain to develop self-awareness and support young people, educators and families to create calm, connected classrooms and homes. We offer practical skills for self-regulation, communication, understanding emotions, and building and maintaining healthy relationships.
Our Education and Engagement Team work hard to meet the needs of early years centres, schools and their surrounding communities, and prioritise building long-term relationships to create sustainable change. Following on from our workshops and programs, ongoing support is available in the form of one-to-one coaching and mentoring, and we are also able to provide tailored consultancy services.
First Nations
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land and waterways and pay our respects to elders past present and emerging. We continue in the traditions of working together in place, listening and learning with each other’s knowledge, to co-create a collective movement of children’s wellbeing.
We support the Uluru Statement of the Heart and our programs acknowledge and work towards the goals articulated in the Closing the Gaps reports for the wellbeing of our First Nations Children.
As part of our commitment to First Nations, all Pathways staff have completed the two day 'D.E.A.D.L.Y. K.I.D.S.' training, run locally by Aunty Louisa Whetham.