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Great opportunity to pop along on Tuesday and find out some more about Nature-Full ✨🌱

Home | Nurture & Thrive Paediatric Occupational Therapy Nurture and Thrive Children’s Therapy Collective was established by Occupational Therapists Jamie Blank and Erin Rayner as a way to bring together Allied Health practitioners who are working towards a shared goal to improve the health and wellbeing of Tamariki and their Whanau.

A few nice little reminders and helpful ideas to assist with our young people who have trouble switching off at night 😴.

When sleep is disrupted this is a red flag for occupational therapists...

In this helpful article by OT, Dr Jamie Chaves, outlines how sensory sensitivities may be affecting your child's ability to participate in the bedtime routine, get to sleep and stay asleep: https://bit.ly/34NtWut

Check out our exciting groups that we are offering across our team at Nurture & Thrive Children's Therapy Collective ✨🙌🏼✨

This is going to be added to my growing list of podcasts! Could be a great one for families, teachers and other OTs to check out too. 🙌🏼

FREE TO LISTEN TO - ON THE GO OR AT HOME!
A new podcast, Sensory Chat, launches today offering insights into what therapists wish that more parents and carers knew. Listen in as four experienced Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioners chat around the challenges faced by children and families with sensory integration or sensory processing difficulties. Hear practical tips and solutions from this group of international, highly-experienced, friendly therapists.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/3HBHbgn

Listen now: https://spoti.fi/363vXDv

Let’s go 2022 ✨.

Although it’s already been 5 weeks back to work for the year it’s time to settle back into those regular rhythms and that means more time at our HQ.

Looking forward to all the magic that happens in our OT Clinic this year 👏🏻.

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Couldn’t agree more Integrated Learning Strategies my number one recommendation for those wanting to learn more about SI and understanding our sensory kiddos ✨

Sensory Integration and the Child: 25th Anniversary Edition Sensory Integration and the Child: 25th Anniversary Edition

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RECIPE SHARE 👩‍🍳 from our good friends Sensational Kids OT Kirrawee who have been riding this COVID storm for months now! 💛

Get cooking this Thursday - I’ll be choosing this sensory diet mix and some treats 🍪.

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Get over those hump day feels 🕺🏻 move that body 🤸🏻‍♂️ play some tunes 🥁 it’s balloon volleyball time 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈.
It’s a simple one but it’s lots of fun! Nurture & Thrive Children's Therapy Collective PlaySense Therapy Sensory Pathways Occupational Therapy

Come and join us for some daily fun! Nurture & Thrive Children's Therapy Collective PlaySense Therapy Sensory Pathways Occupational Therapy

Sensational Kids OT Kirrawee sharing all of their great wisdom with us via these awesome visuals and post 👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you to all of our Sense Rugby community for getting us to over half way of our goal... we are working hard to get new teams up and running out of Porirua! Please share on with anyone who might like to help make this happen 💛🖤.

*Ps the math is wrong because we do everything at 110% 😄

We are blown away with the response so far... 10 days down and 56% of our goal reached already! 💛🖤 Thank you so much for your support so far Sense Rugby community... we are well and truly on our way to helping our Kiwi Crew get their new teams in Porirua off the ground and kicking goals 😉. We have 17 days left to reach our target - and the great thing about crowd funding is that every little bit helps and you get to be apart of making this happen! A huge thank you to NZ Rugby for their ongoing support and very generous donation 🙌.

The link for anyone who missed it is - https://www.boostedsport.org.nz/projects/sense-rugby-nz

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Does your child need help to be part of a team? Our unique rugby based Occupational Therapy program supports children to develop their social, emotional, physical and sensory skills all whilst having fun, playing rugby and making new friends. Free clinic available now 🏉🏉

Can’t wait to see some familiar faces and welcome our new Sense Rugby whanau in Auckland and the Hawke’s Bay! More info coming soon - watch this space! 💛🖤

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Sensory Integration Network always creating and sharing incredible resources! 🙌🏼

Downloadable presentations and videos on for primary and secondary school students created for Neurodiversity Celebration Week: https://bit.ly/30wYV8q

There are also links to resources for businesses.

On the search for some volunteers across NZ to come and going our amazing groups! 💛🖤

Are you in Wellington, on the Kãpiti Coast, Auckland or Hawke’s bay??
Come have some fun with us!🖤💛🖤💛

You start solving problems when you start digging! 🙌🏼 Great share by Developmental FX - The Developmental & Fragile X Resource Centre and Greg Santucci, Occupational Therapist

Only looking at observable behavior (surface behaviors), doesn't tell you anything about what's actually causing the behavior.

You start solving problems when you start diggin'!

Image Description: Title: The “Why of A Behavior”. Two holes with a man digging in each hole: First hole is shallow with subtitle “The old way of thinking”. Underneath are the words “defiant”, “escape”, “avoiding” and “attention seeking”. Second hole is very deep with the subtitle “A necessary paradigm shift” (supported by brain science). Underneath are the words: sensory processing”, “emotional regulation”, “motor challenges”, “learning disabilities”, “trauma”. The function of any behavior is much deep than phrases like attention seeking. This shallow analysis will lead to using rewards and punishments to get compliance. Want to improve behavior? Solve the problem. How do you solve the problem? Dig Deeper. Greg Santucci, Occupational Therapist.

We are coming your way Hawke’s Bay! 👏🏻
If you think your child may benefit from joining us please reach out and we can pop you on our mailing list for updates and details. Send us a message below or email: [email protected]
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If you’re in the Hawke’s Bay get in touch we’re coming your way!! 🎉

Monday News!! 😁😁

We are so excited to be planning our next school holiday intensives for the Hawke's Bay. To make this happen we need to hear from you, if you think you may be interested in joining us send us a message or email us at [email protected] . We can't wait to hear from you and to meet our new Sense Rugby Hawke's Bay whanau soon! 💛🖤

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It’s finally that time for our kiwi kids to get back to school after a big summer break and reset from school life 🎒.

Check out this post filled with important wisdom and ideas from the incredible Tan from for all the important things to keep in mind as we ease back into juggling all the demands that school can present for our kiddos!

Thanks for allowing us to share this great resource Tan! ✨

And that’s a wrap 💫 Finishing 2020 in a very happy place! Thanks to all of our incredible new members of our Sense Rugby NZ Whanau... we’ve had such a great few months getting to know you all and can’t wait for all of the rugby fun 2021 has waiting for our existing team mates and new friends who will join us next year too! 💛🖤

Our first lil newsletter out in the world 🎄