This year we have continued to support, shape and refine our support to all families by helping them achieve their goals. The main focus was on how our families are accessing their community to help them, as well as how we can help expand their achievement of goals not just in the home, but in a range of different environments as well. 

The Successes!

As the whole team has reflected on this, we are so proud of what we have achieved together! 

For our clients and their communities: we have had clients successfully engage in their first experience of team sports over the winter as well as some clients that have learnt new skills within a clinic environment and transferred to home or in the community. Our families leaned in and allowed us to continue to support them with any challenge that has come their way this year. We have been absolutely overjoyed watching all these successes with the excitement and confidence it has given all our clients and their families! It is the reminder each year of why we are here to support you and remaining true to our values – working within our local communities. 

For our team: we have loved being present by providing our ongoing, consistent support to our monthly parent and caregiver support group as well as our ongoing social group programs. We also successfully passed our NDIS reregistration and were able to adapt quickly to support our team, clients and community with all the NDIS changes!

The Challenges!

I don’t know about our clients and families, but this year has come with an array of challenges that we have needed to address and overcome in order to continue to support ourselves, our team and the Explore & Soar community! 

For Explore & Soar specifically, there is no lie, at the beginning of the year we had some staffing changes which impacted our consistency of interventions and support initially for some clients. We had to be flexible and creative in adapting to the NDIS changes in July and continue to do so for all our clients for the rest of the year. We are beyond grateful for our team and community in supporting us in doing so over the last 12 months with these changes!

For our clients and their communities; the financial, time and NDIS pressures have definitely taken its toll this year. We are seeing increased challenges for our caregivers when trying to problem solve how to give everything they can for their children whilst navigating these challenges. This has contributed to the increased pressures and demands of everyday life – only increasing stress and fatigue! We see you, we hear you and we are also navigating the same challenges personally with you. We hope that we can continue to be a support around you still helping navigate success within the chaos! 

End of Year Celebrations and the Year Ahead

The Explore & Soar team took a well earned afternoon off to celebrate the end of year with some great food, connection and some axe throwing to end the year with a challenge. It was so much fun to enjoy the quality time together and seeing who had the best aim with the axe. Can you guess which one of us has the best aim??? If you guessed Sophie, then you are right! She definitely threw it out of the park, with many bullseyes, while the rest of us were just trying to let the axe stick!

We also spent some time sitting on what we would like to focus on and support our clients into 2026 based on what we have seen the common themes for the coming year! We are excited to share the theme for 2026 with you in January and direct our focus again in the new year to  provide support, knowledge and high quality interventions to achieve your goals!  

Important Dates: Holiday Closure and Upcoming January School Holiday Programs

As the year comes to a close our team will be taking a well-deserved break to rest, recharge to either stay at home, visit a new place or spend some time with our family or friends. 

This year, our end of year closure will begin at the end of business Friday 19th December 2025. We will return with our January School Holiday Group Programs & Intensives on Monday 12th January 2026!

If you would like to join our January programs,be sure to secure your spot today! These fun and engaging programs will run from January 12 to 16 & 19 to 23 January 2026. We cannot wait to see you there. Click here to see more about the programs and secure your spot.

Our intensive programs will be running each week in the January school holidays, including the 27 to 30 January 2026! Enquire today on which week will suit you best! 

We wish all of our Explore & Soar families and communities a joyful Christmas and New Year break. We look forward to continuing our journey together in 2026 with lots more support coming! 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Until next time,
Jess

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If you’d like to chat more, please don’t hesitate to contact us today! Call us on 0477 708 217 or email admin@exploreandsoar.com.au

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PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2025