Transforming Experiences of Children, Caregivers and Care Services
Supporting calm, safety, and connection through evidence-informed approaches that strengthen psychological safety, workforce capacity, and sustainable care across families, services, and communities supporting children.
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A Vision for Safer, More Connected Communities
Safer, more connected communities begin in the nervous systems of the adults who care for children.
You cannot co-regulate a child from a dysregulated body. The training, the strategy, the framework, can not work when the adult delivering them is depleted. This is the gap that ends careers in care, and leaves children without the consistent adults they most need.
Inner Resonance Global supports children, and the adults who care for them; in schools, out-of-home and residential care, community and humanitarian organisations. The work is grounded in a decade of practice, an independently evaluated program, and ongoing doctoral research at the Queensland Brain Institute.
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Every part of the practice begins and ends with the children whose nervous systems have been shaped by experiences that no child or carer should have to carry alone; the children in classrooms, in care, in family systems and humanitarian services. They are the reason this work exists. The decisions about what to teach, what to research and what to create, are all made with the children and their caregivers front of mind.
About Michelle
Michelle Black is a senior consultant, registered clinical counsellor, and PhD Candidate at the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, where her research examines the autonomic nervous system through a polyvagal lens for children and adolescents with Down syndrome.
For the past decade she has worked across the full system that surrounds a child; the child, the caregivers, and the organisation; guiding teams through practice and leadership of care frameworks that make consistent, regulated care possible. Before this work, she spent over twenty years in executive leadership across the corporate and education sectors, an experience that shapes how she partners with organisations today: clinically grounded, fluent in strategic and operational reality.
When a felt sense of presence, safety, calm, and aliveness occurs, the effects ripple outward, strengthening capacity, relationships and safer communities.
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Explore Our Offerings and Services
Sessions
Our sessions are for individuals and small teams who need tailored 1:1 or group support.
Workshops
All workshops are for groups who want to learn experientially together.
Courses
Our Courses are for organisations and caregivers wanting structured, evidence-based development
If your team is running on empty and you're losing talented people
You have probably watched it happen more than once. A good worker, a strong teacher, a steady carer, someone the children depended on walks away because the work was costing them more than they could keep paying. The children pay for that loss, every time.
Building the capacity that holds people in the work and holds the children they care for is what the conversation is about.
Starting with your needs, goals and the options explored together. If your team is exhausted and your turnover is rising, the conversation starts here.
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Inner Resonance Reconnect and Reduce Stress Course
Caring for others is rewarding and challenging. It is natural to feel stressed and/or fatigued.
Our Inner Resonance Reconnect and Reduce Stress course is designed to guide caregivers to reconnect and reduce stress, with awareness and simple evidence informed easy to implement actions that renew energy, bring a felt sense of calm, safety and presence, for inner resonance.
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Let Others Inspire You
"Michelle has a unique sense of calm and confidence. I learned I was not alone in how I was feeling and new ways to become more present, thank you."
Stella - Team Leader Residential Care.
"I had tried breathing before and didn't think much of it. When I learned about breathing for calming my system from Michelle, I was surprised how calm I felt after a short time."
James - Region Manager Residential Care NSW.
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Expand your inner resonance.
Inner Resonance - Combat Compassion Fatigue Course
Developed specifically for people caring for others and exposed to trauma.
Restorative Breath Workshop
Tune into inner resonance and awaken harmony within.
Sound and Story Workshop
A heartfelt workshop for children and their caregivers.
The Caregivers Reset Guide
Five practices for calm in high-stress care. For caregivers, teachers, and the children in their care.
