Jitbug

🌟🍎 FREE Professional Development for ECE Teachers — Christchurch 🍎🌟

📅 Saturday 28 March 2026
⏰ 11:00am – 2:00pm (Lunch provided)
📍 Multicultural Recreation & Community Centre
455 Hagley Avenue, Christchurch

Are you looking for practical strategies to support children through conflict and big emotions — while strengthening empathy, problem-solving, and self-regulation in your centre?

We’re excited to invite the ECE community to a FREE professional development workshop with Donna Stichbury (Christchurch).

🎓 Workshop Topic:
“Conflict Isn’t the Enemy — It’s a Teacher.”

This engaging session explores how everyday moments of conflict can become powerful opportunities for children to learn essential social and emotional skills — when supported with the right guidance.

✨ What you’ll gain during the session:
💡 Practical strategies for supporting children through conflict
❤️ Ways to nurture empathy and emotional understanding
🧠 Tools to help children develop self-regulation and problem-solving
🤝 Connection with fellow passionate educators

💛 Hosted by Jitbug — With Gratitude

This workshop is completely free as our way of giving back to the incredible ECE community.

ECE teachers do extraordinary work every day — supporting tamariki, families, and communities with patience, compassion, and dedication. The work you do often goes unseen, but its impact lasts a lifetime.

This event is simply our way of saying:
Thank you. We appreciate you.

This session is open to all ECE teachers — whether you’ve worked with Jitbug before or not. You are warmly welcome to join us.

🌱 Come along, connect with other educators, and leave with fresh ideas and renewed inspiration for your practice.

💫 Spaces are limited — the registration link is in the comments below 👇