SAI
SAI Australian Courses
On Site
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Intro To Sai Foundation Module:
20th - 22nd March 2026
Cost: tbc
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The Just Right State:
26th - 29th March 2026
Cost: tbc
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Venue: To be confirmed (most likely Melbourne)
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Course Organiser: Sensory Connections
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For enquiries & booking details please email:
Introduction to SAI
The Impact of Developmental Trauma and Insecure Attachment on Sensory Processing.
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This three-day course will look at the theories that provide the framework for SAI. Emphasis will be on the impact of trauma on sensory processing, and on the capacity for self and co-regulation.
Participants will learn the neurosequential approach to intervention; that is, when it is most effective to use interventions such as narrative work, play therapy, and education.
They will learn the principles of up-regulation and down-regulation to enable physiological adaptation for social engagement and academic learning.
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Eligibility: This course is for Therapists and Practitioners with a Primary Degree in Health, Social Care or Education.
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SAI for Adults & Adolescents
This course trains therapists in the use of Sensory Attachment Intervention with adults and adolescents.
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This course introduces Sensory Attachment Intervention (SAI). It trains therapists in the use of the Just Right State Programme (JRS) for Adults and Adolescents, and in the use of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Profile Questionnaire. SAI looks at the process of regulation and co-regulation from an integrative and neurosequential perspective.
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The Just Right State Programme can be used with individuals, groups or families. It focuses on developing the capacity for self-regulation, co-regulation and reflective functioning. The Just Right State Programme was developed for individuals who struggled to participate in intervention programmes because of their incapacity to regulate their emotional states. The Autonomic Nervous System Profile Questionnaire is a self-report questionnaire that looks at indicators of stress, survival behaviour responses and self-regulating behaviours. It is an exploratory tool for use with individuals to help formulate their regulating needs.
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Course Handbook includes; assessment tools, and the Just Right State manual and JRS intervention pack.
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Entry Requirements:
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Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists working in LAC, CAMHS or Forensic Mental Health Services.​​
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OTs and Physios may do the SAI for Adults and Adolescents instead of the 3-day Introduction to SAI.​​
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The Just Right State
This 4 day course will train Professionals in the use of The Just Right State Children's Programme and Parents Programme.
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​The Just Right State Children's Programme
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The Just Right State programme looks at the use of sensory activities and foods, to help children learn how to self regulate their emotional states and behaviour. It also uses cartoon characters called 'The Scared Gang' which represents the different survival and attachment patterns of behaviour. The different characters tell the children how they react to situations and what each of them does to achieve the "just-right state". The goal of the programme is to enable children become more emotionally aware of themselves and of others, to give them simple tools to enable them to self regulate and achieve the just right state, whether it is to engage in academic learning, interacting with their peers, or to be able to get a good night's sleep. This programme can be done with individual children and their key worker or caregiver, in small groups of four to six, or can be done with the whole class in schools. Sessions last for for one hour fifteen minutes once a week.​​
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The Just Right State Parents' Programme
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Parents learn how to regulate their child from sensory and attachment perspectives. The aim of the programme is to enhance parents' awareness of their own engagement patterns and how this impacts on their child's emotional states. It also addresses the underlying reasons for behaviours. Parents first complete a sensory-attachment profile questionnaire that looks at the survival, sensory, and attachment behaviours of their child. They learn about; the different levels of self- regulation (physiological, sensory, emotional, and cognitive); the regulating effects of food and activities; and how to create an enriched environment that is tailor made both for them and their child's sensory-attachment needs.
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Parents of the children attending the JRS programme meet together for two hours once a week for six weeks. It runs in parallel to their children's programme.
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The children's facilitators also lead the parents' programme.
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Participants must have either completed Intro to SAI Foundation Course or SAI for Adults and Adolescents Course plus an accredited Attachment Course: 'Attachment: Parent Child Relationships: An Integrative Response to Assessment and Intervention' with Attachment Works or any of the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) courses or ‘Child Attachment & Play Assessment’ Module 1, with CAPA.
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