In many organisations, supervision is spoken about warmly and treated lightly. It is described as supportive, developmental, even “nice to have”, something to prioritise when workloads ease or when everything else feels under control. In reality, supervision is often among the first things to disappear under pressure, quietly replaced by action, urgency and task completion. […]

Behaviour policies sit at the heart of most school systems. They are designed to establish expectations, maintain order and ensure that learning environments remain safe and predictable. In many schools, behaviour frameworks are structured around consistent responses to rule-breaking, often involving a graduated system of warnings, sanctions and rewards. For many pupils, these systems function […]

Each year, Eating Disorder Awareness Week invites us to look more closely at experiences that are often hidden in plain sight. This year’s theme is community. Beat, the UK’s leading eating disorder charity, defines this theme as follows: “We’re celebrating the power of community and the vital role family, friends, and other support networks play in […]

Writing has long been used to satisfy the call to heal from emotional distress, to understand more of our internal workings and to share what we have learnt in the process of experiencing something we have struggled with or found traumatic. I first learned of this wonderful healing ability in its full entirety as I […]

Underpinning Trauma Informed principles into your setting, service or system is now more important than ever. A trauma-informed approach can support children, young people, families and those working in the settings that support them, dealing with the impact of the areas highlighted in the report above.

As described by David Emerson and Elisabeth Hopper in their book “Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga” Human beings are tender creatures - we are born with our hearts open. Sometimes our open hearts encounter experiences that shatter us. Sometimes we encounter experiences that so violate our sense of safety, order, predictability and rights, that we feel […]