Co-Regulate & Connect
Raising Emotionally Resilient Kids Without Losing Yourself In The Process
The video above is our recent webinar. Some key highlights are:
2 mins 58 secs – My story and how Ginger the Frog came to life.
10 mins 30 secs – A taste of the four pillars in Ginger’s courses and powerful tools.
44 mins 52 secs – A peek inside the 9-week courses.
Change the way your child feels
about the world and about themselves.
Give your child emotional regulation tools early and you’ll support their confidence, resilience, and inner calm for life. This isn’t just about reducing meltdowns, it’s about building habits for emotional resilience from the ground up.
Rewrite the story of childhood
starting with calm, curiosity
and resilience.
This program is a heart-centered path for emotional safety, connection & confidence for kids (3-7) and their grown-ups.
You’re Here for a Reason
Imagine this…
A moment that would’ve once ended
in tears, frustration, or distance
between you and your child…
instead becomes something different.
Not because they’re perfect, but because something inside them now has a language for what they’re feeling.
You stay steady.
Not because you’ve stopped caring… but because you finally have tools that help you respond with presence instead of react in overwhelm.
This is what it feels like when your emotional toolkit is stronger than the moment that used to overwhelm you.
That shift doesn’t come from “trying harder.”
It comes from learning how nervous systems calm, how hearts settle, and how connection becomes the anchor,
not chaos.
You’re here because you want a better way,.
something that actually works for your child(ren) and for you.
Not because they’re perfect, but because something inside them now has a language for what they’re feeling.
You stay steady.
Not because you’ve stopped caring… but because you finally have tools that help you respond with presence instead of react in overwhelm.
This is what it feels like when your emotional toolkit is stronger than the moment that used to overwhelm you.
That shift doesn’t come from “trying harder.”
It comes from learning how nervous systems calm, how hearts settle, and how connection becomes the anchor,
not chaos.
You’re here because you want a better way,.
something that actually works for your child(ren) and for you.
Why This Matters Right Now
The early years (ages 0-7) are a short but powerful window where emotional foundations are formed, not just for behaviour, but for identity, safety, regulation, and connection.
This program helps you understand why things happen and how to move through them calmly, creatively, and in partnership with your child(ren).
The Ginger the Frog Emotional Resilience Program has two intertwined paths.
Both are heart-centred, science-informed 9-week journeys for your kids and for you. Each episode in Ginger’s Brave and Kind Club offers playful, creative tools to support emotional growth through themed stories, original songs, exercises and activities.
Each episode in Ginger’s Guide for grown-ups offers simple tools and strategies to help you stay calm, connected, and confident, equipping you to support your child’s emotional development while deepening your own self-awareness and resilience.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to gently guide your child(ren) toward the essential skills of self-regulation in 9 weeks or less so they can build the emotional resilience they need for the challenges of today, and the world they’ll grow into.
Imagine walking into a situation that would have set your child off just weeks before and watching them self regulate right there and then. Rather than going into a meltdown, you see them calm their body and settle their emotions in seconds while you stay more steady and grounded than you ever have before.
Join the 2026 cohort here!
Starts on the 4th of February just before the first school term of the year.
Is This for You?
Your child has big feelings and you’re not always sure how to help.
You sometimes feel overwhelmed, reactive, or unsure what to do.
You’re craving a way to parent with more calm, clarity, and heart.
You want your child(ren) to grow up emotionally resilient and you want to feel that way too.
What Makes This Different?
Most traditional parenting advice focuses on managing behaviour and giving tips on what to do when a child is upset or how to reduce certain behaviours. While that can be helpful short-term, it often misses the deeper emotional patterns that drive those behaviours in the first place.
This program goes deeper supporting both of you from the inside out.
You’re not waiting for a meltdown to scramble for answers.
You’re building a foundation of emotional resilience from the ground up during everyday moments, so you’re both ready for the big ones.
You become your child’s emotional anchor, co-regulating through somatic self care, midfulness, creativity and neuroplasticity, using themed stories, grounding, shaking, breathing, laughter, music, and creative visualisations, supported with posters audios and videos. These aren’t just ideas. They’re science-backed emotional regulation tools used by trauma-informed practitioners to support real, lasting nervous system regulation.
And they’re delivered in a way your child will actually enjoy, through Ginger the Frog’s playful, heartfelt world.
You grow together!
Here’s a deeper dive into the two programs
A playful, story-based journey for kids aged 3-7.
Ginger’s Brave and Kind Club gives kids aged 3-7 a fun, imaginative way to understand and manage their emotions. Through playful tools and activities, children learn how to recognise their feelings, express their needs, and feel more confident in everyday situations. It’s not about fixing big feelings it’s about empowering kids with emotional language, self-awareness, and connection, all wrapped in joy and curiosity.
Heal the past, grow in the present and raise the future.
As your child learns to regulate emotions, you’ll walk your own healing path alongside them. Ginger’s Guide for Grown-Ups helps you break inherited patterns, strengthen emotional presence, and create a family culture rooted in heart not hierarchy. With every shared moment, story, and co-regulation tool, caregiving becomes your most meaningful practice bringing you home to yourself while raising children who feel safe, seen, and deeply loved.
Have a peek at what’s in each lesson of
Ginger’s Brave and Kind Club
Nine entertaining stories with different themes.
Presented in a partly animated, digital storybook with embedded wellbeing concepts and exercises called ‘games’.
First episode preview 'Be Brave'
The stories are told in a slow, nurturing storytelling style that mirrors their inner world and speaks to their feelings and bodies.
First episode preview 'Be Brave'
The stories are told in a slow, nurturing storytelling style that mirrors their inner world and speaks to their feelings and bodies.
The night time lullaby - 'Shining Star'
Included in Ginger’s Bedtime Routine bundle.
An album of songs and guided visualisations
The album is made up of a variety of original songs from genres including surf-rock, hip-hop, dub reggae, folk and 70’s disco.
An album of songs and guided visualisations
The album is made up of a variety of original songs from genres including surf-rock, hip-hop, dub reggae, folk and 70’s disco.
Exercise/games used in the stories
An explanation about why we use these specific exercises.
Here’s what’s in each episode of
Ginger’s Guide for Grown-ups
1. Embracing the Transition
Guiding Your Child (and Yourself) Into a New Chapter
Stepping into preschool or school is a shared growth moment for you and your child. This chapter helps you navigate your evolving parent role, regulate your emotions to influence theirs, and understand how young brains handle change. Build a calm, connected foundation as your child enters the wider world.
2. Slowing the Spin
Creating Calm, Focus & Presence in a Busy World
Overwhelm and overstimulation steal focus. Learn to tune into your feelings, design a smoother daily flow, and slow down to you and your child can be more present. The message: do less, but with more presence.
3. Emotional Responsibility
Responding Instead of Reacting
When life with little ones gets jammed, anger can mask deeper needs. This chapter shows how to stay anchored in your own experience, explore your role in conflicts, and respond with self-awareness, compassion, and clarity-moving from reaction to responsible, calm responsiveness.
4. Awarness with Boundaries
Holding Space Without Absorbing Emotions
Empathy is powerful but can drain you. Learn to hold space without taking on others’ feelings, maintain your boundaries, and model grounded presence. Your child can co-regulate with you while you protect your own emotional well-being.
5. Repair Over Perfection
Navigating Anger with Awareness and Grace
Anger happens. This chapter helps you understand its impact on your child, spot
early signs of escalation, and practice practical tools to calm yourself and repair
when things go wrong. It’s about healthy repair and honest emotion, not perfection.
6. You’re Not Meant to Do This Alone
Reclaiming Support
Connection & shared care parenting isn’t a solo vocation. Learn to seek and build sustainable support – emotional, practical, or a breathing break. Shift from self-sacrifice to shared care, deepen connections with friends, partners, and community, and bring more ease into family life.
7. Owning Mistakes with Compassion
Replacing Shame with Safety
Shame harms trust. Understand its impact on children, learn to guide accountability without fear and own your missteps with curiosity and kindness. Foster an environment where honesty, repair, and growth thrive for both adults and kids.
8. Keep Showing Up
Reclaiming Courage, Curiosity, and Possibility
Fear can feel like a barrier. This episode invites you to pursue your dreams, that may have changed, alongside parenting – study, career shifts, or new passions may arise. Parenting becomes a portal to courage and renewed possibility, not a pause.
9. Rediscovering Your Spark
Confidence After Parenthood
Reconnect with your own voice and identity beyond caregiving. Reimagine your next chapter, reclaim confidence, and celebrate the unique strengths you bring to the world and to your family.
You and your child grow together, building a shared language, mutual regulation, and emotional resilience before it’s needed in a crisis.
This isn’t about changing behaviour. It’s emotional transformation from the inside out.
Ginger’s journey began years ago when our children were just 3 and 7 in 2003 with the creation of our first story, “Be Brave”. This tale delved into the myriad emotions a young child experiences when feeling shy and afraid to try new things. Whenever other kids stayed over, their parents would often ask, “When will this become a book?”
My career took a fascinating turn from working in the film industry, where I handled makeup, hair, and costume design, closely interacting with stressed-out celebrities and politicians, to delving into the world of psychotherapy. My sensitivity to energy frequencies led me to become certified in kinesiology, hypnotherapy, and as a Reiki Master, among many other modalities including trauma recovery. Additionally, I am a mindfulness and meditation teacher, having practiced for the past forty years.
Research begins.
In 2017, Ginger secured a place in the Accelerate program at Wollongong University to continue research and expand its reach. After the bushfires, we received funding through our nonprofit to create a theatre show, traveling to many fire and flood- affected areas. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and the show was much needed. I felt that kids were taking on their parents’ anxiety leaving a lifetime imprint and needed to have a good time and be shown that ‘we see you, and hear you, and honour you in the journey to recovery’. It also showed that children, from every background can easily learn emotional resilience through fun and entertainment. See more about the show at https://gingerthefrog.com/the-show/
The six-part series received funding form Arndelle College to upgrade the pictures and involve teachers in re writing the stories, ensuring the program meets early learning criteria in schools. The Ginger the Frog Resilience Program has been well received in a local school, and now it’s time to take it further afield and continue our research.
After fifteen years of seeing clients and three years working in crisis recovery, helping our traumatised community after the Black Summer 2019/20 bushfires, I learned some crucial truths. Our beliefs and experiences form a blueprint for the rest of our lives before the age of seven affecting how we operate throughout the rest of our lives, which become very obvious in critical conditions. Eighty percent of the population, according to psychologists, are impacted by some sort of trauma in early childhood. My experience has shown that recovery from trauma, whether from a crisis or long-term challenges, is possible with tools like somatic self-care, mindfulness, positive psychology, and creative visualisations. Strong family bonding also plays a vital role along with a connected community. These tools and concepts help build emotional resilience in all of us now.
“Ginger offers a simple yet powerful framework for teaching emotional resilience. The digital stories, songs, and lesson plans make the tools easy, playful and fun for young children to understand and implement. Thank you for making teaching a breeze!”
Martin Billingham, Ph.D., (Oxford) Teacher and Psychotherapist
The impact of trauma.
After fifteen years of seeing clients and three years working in crisis recovery, helping our traumatised community after the Black Summer 2019/20 bushfires, I learned some crucial truths. Our beliefs and experiences form a blueprint for the rest of our lives before the age of seven affecting how we operate throughout the rest of our lives, which become very obvious in critical conditions. Eighty percent of the population, according to psychologists, are impacted by some sort of trauma in early childhood. My experience has shown that recovery from trauma, whether from a crisis or long-term challenges, is possible with tools like somatic self-care, mindfulness, positive psychology, and creative visualisations. Strong family bonding also plays a vital role along with a connected community. These tools and concepts help build emotional resilience in all of us now.
Ginger comes alive.
In 2016, I was asked to create a series on emotional resilience for primary school students, which evolved into a six-part series that captivated both kids and parents in a before school class.. Even energetic three-year-olds could meditate when their parents led by example.
Ginger’s program spread to festivals and institutions, praised for helping various kids feel understood giving parents a doorway to connect and talk together about their emotions.
The bedtime routine is the starting point for carers and children to embark on a journey with Ginger, becoming familiar with exercises like ginger’s games, enjoying the songs on the album, and learning evidence-based tools that help children settle at bedtime. It’s available for free here https://gingerthefrog.com/ginger-bedtime-routine-bundle/
Proven Strategies:
Insights from Real-Life Experience.
In the aftermath of the fires and the COVID-19 pandemic, I had the opportunity to observe complementary approaches that supported children. We distributed handmade dolls infused with essential oils (of their choice) to hundreds of traumatised preschool children, many of whom had lost everything in the fires and were experiencing severe psychological distress, including mutism, bedwetting, and various behavioural issues. The remarkable shift in energy, from chaos to calm, underscored the profound calming power of scent.
feel understood giving parents a doorway to connect and talk together about their emotions.
The bedtime routine is the starting point for carers and children to embark on a journey with Ginger, becoming familiar with exercises like ginger’s games, enjoying the songs on the album, and learning evidence-based tools that help children settle at bedtime. It’s available for free here https://gingerthefrog.com/ginger-bedtime-routine-bundle/
This is why smell, touch and somatic exercises to wire the brain for safety and calm, along with songs and creative visualisations for self esteem are centre stage in the bedtime routine.
Creating a community for societal change.
The bedtime routine is a starting point to welcome Ginger into your home, and then continue with the full nine-part Ginger the Frog Emotional Resilience Program. This journey is filled with evidence-based techniques crafted to enrich yet simplify your child’s emotional world while strengthening the bonds that are the heart of your family. With ongoing support, we foster a thriving community of love and resilience, building a foundation that endures a lifetime.
I’ve seen first hand how these science-backed tools can deeply shape a child’s ability to understand themselves, express their needs clearly, and navigate life with confidence. By nurturing emotional self-responsibility, empathy, and communication from the earliest years, we’re not just helping children thrive, we’re laying the foundation for a generation of emotionally self-reliant, compassionate, and courageous adults who will shape a more connected, resilient world.
With deep respect and love for the caregivers and our wonderful kids,
What Your Family Will Gain
For Children
- Develop natural empathy by connecting with Ginger’s struggles
- Learn emotional skills through engaging stories and imagination
- Build confidence and self-love through creative visualisations
- Find their inner emotional guidance system and express feelings with clarity
- Master emotional regulation through story, movement-based tools and concepts
For Parents and Caregivers
- Discover playful and fun ways to support emotional growth
- Create deeper connections through sharing the stories and exercises.
- Learn a shared language of emotional intelligence
- Strengthen your own emotional resilience
- Build a toolkit for handling challenging moments
- Join a supportive community of like-minded families
For the Whole Family
- Transform daily challenges into opportunities for growth
- Create lasting bonds through changing adversity into love and connection
- Develop a common language for feelings and needs
- Establish positive patterns that last a lifetime
This nine week online program is only $197 (in the future it will be $497)
or 3 payments of $70
This includes The Brave and Kind Club and Ginger’s Guide for Grown-ups.
Join our first cohort! The courses start on Wednesday 4th of February 2026
This nine week online program is only $197 (in the future it will be $497)
or 3 payments of $70
This includes The Brave and Kind Club and Ginger’s Guide for Grown-ups.
Join our first cohort! The courses start on Wednesday 4th of February 2026
Frequently asked Questions
What age range is this program designed for?
The program is best suited for children ages 3–7, but older or younger siblings can also benefit
How will the material be delivered?
Each week the weekly episodes will be released and an invitation sent by email and or sms to attend the hour long webinar
What if I miss a weekly webinar?
No worries! Each webinar is recorded, and you’ll receive a replay link so you can watch it anytime.
Do I need to be super involved as a parent?
You don’t need to be perfect or have lots of extra time. The adult guide is designed to fit into real life and support your own emotional growth alongside your child’s.
How much time does it take each week?
Each episode takes about 20 minutes. Add on 10–15 minutes for optional activities. You can do it all at once or spread it out—whatever works for your family.
Is the program screen-free?
The program includes storybook style, partially animated videos, and downloadable posters, but encourages off-screen activities to help children embody what they learn.
Can I do this with more than one child?
Absolutely! The content is designed to be inclusive and engaging for multiple children, especially within the 3-7 age range.
How is this different from other parenting programs?
Ginger the Frog blends creative storytelling, emotional education, and real-world parenting support in one program. It’s not just about fixing behavior-it’s about building a solid foundation of resilience and connection from the inside out.
Is there a payment plan?
Yes. It can be split up into three payments of $70 each which works out at $23.33 per week for both courses, and the live meet ups.
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If you’re not completely satisfied, you’ll recive a full refund – no questions asked.
There are limited spots for the first cohort to ensure individual attention so grab your spot below
We’ve inspired hundreds of families just like yours. You’re in good hands!
$197 for the first cohort!
or 3 payments of $70
($497 for future cohorts)
© 2026 Ginger the Frog Emotional Resilience Program
$197 for the first cohort!
or 3 payments of $70
($497 for future cohorts)
© 2026 Ginger the Frog Emotional Resilience Program