Recent Talks

Practical strategies for supporting autistic and ADHD learners in a college setting, built for tutors, curriculum managers and support staff. Learn to recognise the quieter signs of struggle, including in learners who mask or have no diagnosis, and make small, low cost changes to how you communicate, set tasks up and run your teaching space. Grounded in what these learners themselves say helps, with a clear focus on the changes staff can make from the very next session.

Practical strategies for school staff who want to respond well when a student’s behaviour escalates, rather than taking it personally or making it worse. This keynote shows why challenging behaviour is almost always survival, not sabotage, and uses the CALM framework to help you get the first 60 seconds right, even when you’re under pressure yourself.

Practical strategies for educators working with students who need more than the standard offering. This session shows how to translate inclusive values into everyday classroom practice, holding high expectations whilst providing the equitable support that helps every student reach them.

Written for the staff team at an all-girls boarding school. Practical ways 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 staff team, because none of it holds if the adults aren’t being looked after too.

Practical ways for every adult in a school, teaching and non-teaching, to help students settle at the start of the year, especially the neurodivergent and anxious ones who find September hardest. Learn to spot struggle before it escalates, tell anxiety from overwhelm, keep a wobbling child in the room, and support without lowering the bar, none of which needs specialist training.

Practical strategies for FE college staff supporting young adults whose anxiety shows up as refusal. Learn to tell demand avoidance apart from defiance, lower the pressure without lowering expectations, and use language that invites rather than instructs, all built for a college setting where learners can vote with their feet.