SPEAKING & WORKSHOP

I'm here to helping families understand Sleep, Behaviour & Emotional Wellbeing through a Nervous-System-Informed Lens. Hire me to speak at your next event or host a workshop!

Why Jen?

Jen Cuttriss is a Registered Nurse, Certified Infant & Child Sleep Specialist, Neuroprotective Sleep Coach, Mind-Body Practitioner, Circle of Security Facilitator and Parent Mentor known for her refreshing “Safety Before Sleep” approach.

Blending science, nervous system regulation, emotional development, temperament, attachment and real-life parenting sustainability, Jen helps families and professionals move beyond pressure-based approaches into sustainable, connected support.

Her work leaves audiences feeling empowered, informed, emotionally safe and deeply understood.

Trusted by thousands of families worldwide.

  • Registered Nurse (13+ years)

  • Certified Infant & Child Sleep Specialist

  • Certified Neuroprotective Sleep Coach

  • Certified Level 2 Mind-Body Practitioner

  • Certified Emotional Processing & Nervous System Regulation Practitioner

  • Circle of Security Facilitator

  • Podcast Host: Thriving Parent-ing

  • Speaker on sleep, nervous systems, temperament & emotional wellbeing

Modern parenting advice can often feel like a pendulum swing between pressure and permissiveness.

Every day, I works with parents overwhelmed by conflicting information around sleep, behaviour, attachment, emotional regulation and what it means to be a “good parent.” Yet these parents are rarely lacking love or effort. More often, they are lacking understanding, support and confidence in what they are seeing.

Much of modern parenting culture leaves families feeling like they need to follow every opinion, every method and every rule perfectly, rather than learning how to take the information that supports them, work alongside their intuition, and leave the rest.

My work helps families better understand the nervous system, temperament, emotional development and the communication underneath children’s sleep and behaviour, allowing parents to move from confusion to clarity, fear to confidence, and reacting to understanding.

As parents begin understanding their child more deeply, they often begin trusting themselves again.

My work helps families move from:

  • Confusion → clarity

  • Fear → confidence

  • Control → connection

  • Reacting → understanding

My presentations are compassionate, evidence-informed, practical and deeply relatable, helping audiences feel calmer, clearer, more confident and less alone in the realities of modern parenting.

What’s inside the membership?

  • Monthly Themed Masterclass

    Access monthly masterclass on important parenting and sleep topics that will help you become a calm, confident and conscious parent.

  • Weekly Q&A Live Call with Jen

    Get live support on sleep, baby development, parenting confidence, mindset, and stress.

  • A Thriving Community

    Connect with like-minded parents who get it within a private Facebook group- because you shouldn’t have to do this alone.

  • Instant Access to a Growing Resource Library

    Courses (including my bestselling self-paced course - Arms to Cot), masterclasses, and quick-win guides designed to help you navigate every stage of your parenting journey.

  • Personalised Support & Guidance
    Ask your burning questions in a safe, non-judgmental space.

The Investment?

$27/month

That’s just $6.75 a week - the cheapest it will ever be, and more affordable than your weekly coffee habit, I might add!

* All prices are in AUD

I help bridge the gap between what children are communicating and what overwhelmed parents are trying to understand.

Signature Speaking Topics

Safety Before Sleep

A powerful keynote exploring why sleep is biological, relational, emotional and nervous-system based not simply behavioural.

Jen shares her signature Safety Before Sleep framework exploring:

  • Body safety

  • Relational safety

  • Environmental safety

  • Parental nervous system capacity

This keynote can be tailored for:

  • Newborns & postpartum families

  • Baby & toddler sleep

  • Educators & early years settings

  • Health professionals

  • Emotional wellbeing events

The Truth About Independent Sleep

A nuanced and refreshing keynote challenging black-and-white sleep narratives around sleep, attachment and independence.

This talk explores how independence grows through safety, trust and connection not pressure or shame while recognising that parenting constantly asks us to grow alongside our children’s ever-changing seasons.

Key themes:

  • Independence grows from dependence

  • Secure attachment & sleep

  • Middle-ground parenting

  • Nervous-system-informed sleep support

  • Sustainable sleep without shame

  • Adapting alongside children’s changing needs

Perfect for podcasts, panels, parenting events and modern family wellbeing conversations.

Why Your Baby Still Fights Sleep

A compassionate and eye-opening keynote unpacking the real reasons sleep can feel hard beyond wake windows, routines and sleep training advice.

Topics may include:

  • Nervous system activation

  • Sensory profiles

  • Co-regulation

  • Sleep pressure

  • Temperament differences

  • Why some children need different approaches

Temperament Changes Everything

Why children respond differently to sleep, parenting, transitions and emotional support.

This keynote explores:

  • Orchid, tulip & dandelion temperaments

  • Emotional intensity & sensitivity

  • Why one-size-fits-all advice often fails

  • Supporting the child in front of you

Perfect for:

  • Parents

  • Educators

  • Therapists

  • Health professionals

Transitions Without Trauma

Helping children navigate change while preserving safety, trust and connection.

Topics may include:

  • Cot transitions

  • Dummy removal

  • Sibling transitions

  • Daycare & school transitions

  • Reducing support responsively

  • Navigating developmental change

Core message:

Children don’t fear change because they are manipulative.

They fear change because predictability feels safe.

The Overwhelmed Parent

A keynote focused on parental nervous systems, emotional load and modern parenting pressure.

Topics include:

  • Stress buffering

  • Perfectionism

  • Matrescence

  • Nervous system regulation

  • Co-dysregulation

  • Sustainable parenting

  • Emotional safety for parents

Co-Regulation, Not Control

Understanding behaviour, emotional development and what children truly need during moments of dysregulation.

Topics may include:

  • Attachment & emotional safety

  • Boundaries with connection

  • Nervous system development

  • Behaviour as communication

  • "Bigger, stronger, wiser, kind"

Perfect for:

  • Daycares

  • Educators

  • Parenting panels

  • Emotional wellbeing events

Tailored To Your Audience

Every keynote, workshop and training can be adapted to suit:

  • Parents

  • Educators

  • Maternal & child health professionals

  • Therapists

  • Parenting practitioners

  • GP’s and Paediatricians

  • Early learning centres

  • Workplaces

  • Conferences

  • Postpartum audiences

  • Newborn, baby, toddler stages

Professional Development & Specialist Training

I also deliver professional development and specialist education for professionals working with children and families.

Topics may include:

  • Nervous-system-informed sleep support

  • Temperament-informed care

  • Responsive sleep approaches

  • Co-regulation & attachment

  • Emotional safety in parenting

  • Transitions in early childhood

  • Supporting overwhelmed families

  • Sustainable parent wellbeing

Perfect for:

  • Maternal health professionals

  • Educators

  • Therapists

  • GP’s and Paediatricians

  • Child health nurses

  • Parenting practitioners

  • Early learning centres

  • Corporate wellbeing events

Audiences Leave With:

✔ A deeper understanding of sleep, behaviour & emotional development

✔ Greater confidence in responding to children with warmth and leadership

✔ Practical, realistic strategies families can actually use

✔ A better understanding of what children may be communicating through sleep and behaviour

✔ Nervous-system-informed tools for regulation and wellbeing

✔ Less fear, pressure and overwhelm around parenting

✔ Increased trust in themselves as parents and caregivers

Meet Jen

Jen Cuttriss is a mother of three, Registered Nurse, Parenting Educator and Infant & Child Sleep Specialist passionate about helping families move from survival mode into sustainable parenting.

After her own experience entering motherhood feeling deeply unprepared for the emotional reality of postpartum and early parenting, Jen became passionate about supporting families in a way that felt both evidence-informed and emotionally safe.

Her work now blends nervous system education, attachment science, emotional development, temperament and practical sleep support, helping families feel less overwhelmed, less fearful and more confident in their parenting.

Jen is known for her compassionate middle-ground approach that moves beyond rigid parenting systems and all-or-nothing advice.

What’s inside the membership?

  • Monthly Themed Masterclass

    Access monthly masterclass on important parenting and sleep topics that will help you become a calm, confident and conscious parent.

  • Weekly Q&A Live Call with Jen

    Get live support on sleep, baby development, parenting confidence, mindset, and stress.

  • A Thriving Community

    Connect with like-minded parents who get it within a private Facebook group- because you shouldn’t have to do this alone.

  • Instant Access to a Growing Resource Library

    Courses (including my bestselling self-paced course - Arms to Cot), masterclasses, and quick-win guides designed to help you navigate every stage of your parenting journey.

  • Personalised Support & Guidance
    Ask your burning questions in a safe, non-judgmental space.

The Investment?

$27/month

That’s just $6.75 a week - the cheapest it will ever be, and more affordable than your weekly coffee habit, I might add!

* All prices are in AUD

Bring Jen To Your Event

Available for:

  • Conferences

  • Parenting events

  • Workshops

  • Corporate wellbeing events

  • Podcasts

  • Panels

  • Professional education

  • Online webinars

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