Sound for Wellbeing in Child-Centred Settings

Applying sound within real-world child-centred practice

CPD-Certified Training

Designed to help practitioners develop the awareness, confidence, and professional judgement to apply sound thoughtfully within child-centred settings.

✔ Choose a one-day workshop or two-day learning pathway

✔ 6 hours of guided learning (including refreshment and comfort breaks)

✔ 5 hours of CPD-certified learning

✔ Certificate of Attendance for CPD records

✔ No musical experience required

About This Training

This CPD-certified training explores how children and young people experience sound, and how sound environments may support or contribute to regulation, wellbeing, engagement, and behaviour within everyday child-centred settings.

Through guided listening, gentle instrument playing, and reflective discussion, you will develop an understanding of sound as a sensory and relational experience, alongside practical ways different sounds, sound qualities, and instruments may be introduced thoughtfully within your existing professional role.

The training is centred on awareness, responsiveness, and the safe, ethical application of sound. Rather than promoting fixed methods or prescribed techniques, it develops the observation, listening, and professional judgement needed to apply sound thoughtfully within your own setting.

Why This Matters

Sound is present in every child-centred environment.

Without awareness, it can contribute to sensory and emotional overwhelm.

With sensitivity, it can support calmer sensory experiences, connection, engagement, and a greater sense of emotional safety.

This training supports you to recognise that difference and respond in a way that is appropriate to your professional role and setting.

The training aligns with principles from the Sound Space Connect® framework, a practical approach to understanding and responding to sound in everyday environments.

What You'll Gain

By the end of the training you will be able to:

• Understand how children and young people may experience sound differently.
• Recognise signs of sound sensitivity and sensory overload.
• Introduce sound with greater awareness of pacing, volume, choice, and response.
• Support settling, transition, presence, and participation through responsive sound awareness.
• Apply sound safely, ethically, and appropriately within your professional role.
• Reflect on safeguarding, consent, professional boundaries, and scope of practice.

What You'll Explore

Sound Awareness

• Sound as a sensory and relational experience
• How tone, rhythm, texture, pace, and volume may be experienced differently
• Variability in sound perception across individuals, activities, and environments

Responsive Practice

• Developing listening through sound, silence, and observation
• Exploring responsive approaches to listening and simple instrument playing
• Working with pacing, volume, choice, and responsiveness

Applied Practice

• Supporting settling, transition, and presence
• Recognising sound sensitivities
• Reflecting on when to use, and when not to use, sound
• Exploring flexible ways of structuring activities
• Adapting sound use according to context and individual needs

Applying the Learning Within Your Professional Setting

Whilst the core learning outcomes remain the same, discussions, examples, and practical exploration can be tailored to your professional setting.

This may include:

• Parent and baby programmes
• Early Years settings
• Nursery and preschool
• Primary education
• SEND provision
• Family support services
• Community wellbeing programmes

The same core principles are explored throughout the training, while practical discussion and application are adapted to the professional backgrounds and interests of participants.

Professional Scope

This training is offered as professional development.

It supports practitioners to introduce sound awareness thoughtfully within their existing professional role, aligned with safeguarding, ethical practice, organisational policies, and professional boundaries.

It does not provide therapeutic or clinical intervention training, nor does it prepare participants to deliver therapeutic sound sessions or sound baths with children.

Choose the Learning Format That Suits You

Small Group CPD

Choose the learning format that best suits your schedule and learning preference.

One-Day Workshop

• 6-hour in-person workshop (including refreshment and comfort breaks)
• 5 hours of CPD-certified learning
• Maximum of 3 participants
• Guided listening, practical exploration, discussion, and reflection

Two-Day Reflective Learning Pathway

• Two 3-hour sessions delivered over two days
• 6 hours including short breaks
• 5 hours of CPD-certified learning
• Additional opportunity for reflection and integration between sessions
• Particularly suited to practitioners who prefer a gentler pace of learning

Personalised One-to-One CPD

For practitioners seeking learning tailored to their professional role and setting, this training is also available on a personalised one-to-one basis.

One-to-one training is always delivered over two 3-hour sessions, allowing time for reflection, observation, and practical application between sessions.

This format supports deeper discussion, individual questions, and consideration of how the principles explored can be applied within your own professional context.

Available in person or online by enquiry.

Organisational & Bespoke Delivery

Available for:

• Schools
• Early Years settings
• Sure Starts
• Community organisations
• Health and wellbeing organisations

Training can be contextualised to the professional setting of your team whilst maintaining the same core learning outcomes.

Workshop Details

In-Person Venue
The Sound Healing Spa
Comber, Co. Down
Northern Ireland

Live Online Tutor-Led Training
Delivered via Zoom

Personalised One-to-One CPD

Personalised one-to-one CPD is currently available by enquiry.

Training is delivered over two 3-hour sessions, allowing time for reflection, observation, and practical application between sessions.

Scheduled Public Training Dates

Public small-group training dates will be announced shortly.

Small-group places are intentionally limited to three participants to support a calm, attentive learning environment with space for discussion, reflection, and individual exploration.

Investment

£397

or

2 monthly payments of £198.50

Included

✔ CPD-Certified Training

✔ 5 Hours of CPD-Certified Learning

✔ 6-Hour Workshop (including breaks)

✔ Certificate of Attendance for CPD records

✔ Supporting learning resources

✔ Optional follow-up reflection and implementation support

Further Enquiries

Not sure whether this training is suitable for your professional setting?

The core learning outcomes remain the same, while examples, discussion, and practical exploration can be tailored to your professional role.

Whether you work in parent and baby programmes, Early Years, nursery, primary education, SEND, family support, or community wellbeing, please get in touch if you would like to discuss whether this training is right for you.

Contact Tessa Ann