Recent Talks

Some of your autistic and ADHD learners are struggling quietly, and the ones who mask or have no diagnosis are the easiest to miss. This session helps you spot the quieter signs and make small changes that help from the very next lesson.

When a student’s behaviour escalates, it’s easy to take it personally or make it worse without meaning to. This session shows why it’s almost always survival, not sabotage, and how to get the first sixty seconds right.

Most of us believe in inclusion, then get stuck on what it looks like on a Tuesday morning with a full classroom. This session turns inclusive values into everyday practice, so you can hold high expectations and give each student the support that gets them there.

A child who doesn’t feel they belong can’t settle to learn, and when trust breaks the usual approaches often make it worse. This session covers how to build trust fast, repair relationships when they break, and use the 4Ps of relational resilience to work out where to put your effort with a particular child. It ends with the adults, because none of it holds if the staff team isn’t looked after too.

September is hardest for the neurodivergent and anxious students, and the first few weeks set the tone for the whole year. This session helps every adult in a school, teaching and non-teaching, spot struggle before it escalates, tell anxiety from overwhelm, and keep a wobbling child in the room without lowering the bar. None of it needs specialist training

When a learner’s anxiety shows up as refusal, it’s easy to read it as defiance and push harder, and in a college where they can vote with their feet that rarely ends well. This session helps you tell demand avoidance apart from defiance, lower the pressure without lowering expectations, and use language that invites rather than instructs, all built for an FE setting.