Forming Connections

“Workplace stress affects hundreds of thousands of UK employees, every year 776,000 workers reported stress, depression, or anxiety in 2023/24, leading to 16.4 million lost working days (HSE 2024). Mindful practices give your team the tools to stay present, improve focus, and manage stress before it takes hold. By learning simple, practical techniques, employees can boost wellbeing, build resilience, and create a calmer, more productive work environment.

Why not treat your staff to an in-house or  online wellbeing session? These sessions combine engaging mindfulness-based activities with practical insights from neuroscience to support a calmer, more focused workplace.

Regulating the Room is a six-week online programme for teachers at any stage of their career, designed to improve teacher wellbeing, regulation, and confidence when supporting behaviour in the classroom. Using trauma and polyvagal-informed approaches, teachers learn practical strategies to manage stress, co-regulate pupils, and create calmer learning environments.

The programme introduces nervous system awareness, behaviour responses, and early SEND identification through the assess–plan–do–review model from the SEND Code of Practice, building confidence and early intervention skills.

How this supports the November 2025 Ofsted Framework:
The framework places increased focus on staff wellbeing, sustainable workload, behaviour culture, and early identification of SEND. Regulating the Room helps schools meet these expectations by equipping teachers with tools that reduce stress, strengthen relationships, improve behaviour responses, and support proactive SEND practice — contributing to a healthier staff team and improved outcomes for pupils.

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In this practical and inspiring webinar, you’ll explore how music and movement can gently shape the brain’s readiness to learn. Grounded in neuroscience and real classroom experience, this session shows how rhythm, routine, and sensory safety can help children feel calm, connected, and ready to engage, especially those with SEND.

Research shows that the brain prioritises safety before learning. When children feel regulated, attention, memory, and motivation naturally follow. Through simple, intentional strategies, from musical transitions and movement breaks to calming routines, you’ll discover how to support emotional regulation without adding pressure or workload.

Whether you work in early years, primary, or specialist settings, this session will help you:

• Understand why music is such a powerful regulatory tool
• Create predictable, supportive routines that reduce anxiety
• Support attention, engagement, and emotional safety
• Use music purposefully — not as background noise, but as a tool for learning

Because when we change the state of the body, we change access to the brain.