Consultancy with Forming Connections
Let’s connect to create the change you’ve been hoping for.
Your first step begins with a free 30-minute online consultation to explore your needs, ask questions, and discover whether we’re the right fit for your journey.
Our consultancy is an invitation to go deeper: to look beneath behaviour and policy, and into the nervous system where real transformation begins. Together, we create environments where people feel safe, connected, and empowered to learn and belonging. Rooted in lived experience as a leader, advisor, teacher, parent, and AuDHDer, and grounded in the science of brain, body, and environment, our work is compassionate, curious, and deeply human.
We listen. We notice. We work alongside you to nurture change from the inside out.
Every setting is unique.
So every piece of work is bespoke, crafted to honour your community and designed to bring clarity, alignment, and lasting impact. Get in touch to see what package of support is needed to empower your school community to thrive.
Let’s connect to create the change you’ve been hoping for.
Your first step begins with a free 30-minute online consultation to explore your needs, ask questions, and discover whether we’re the right fit for your journey.
Our consultancy is an invitation to go deeper: to look beneath behaviour and policy, and into the nervous system where real transformation begins. Together, we create environments where people feel safe, connected, and empowered to learn and belonging. Rooted in lived experience as a leader, advisor, teacher, parent, and AuDHDer, and grounded in the science of brain, body, and environment, our work is compassionate, curious, and deeply human.
We listen. We notice. We work alongside you to nurture change from the inside out.
Every setting is unique.
So every piece of work is bespoke, crafted to honour your community and designed to bring clarity, alignment, and lasting impact. Get in touch to see what package of support is needed to empower your school community to thrive.
Our Approach
Our work is grounded in the science of how humans connect, learn, and heal. We draw on Polyvagal Theory to understand how the nervous system shapes behaviour, communication, and the capacity to feel safe in relationships. Through this lens, we explore the solutions to empower individuals to move from survival to connection. Attachment theory further informs how we support relationships, recognising that trust, co-regulation, and emotional safety are the cornerstones of learning and wellbeing.
We look beyond what is seen to what is sensed, integrating research in brain development, memory, and neuroplasticity to understand how past experiences influence present behaviour and how new experiences can rewire patterns over time. This insight helps us make sense of stress responses, identify unmet needs, and nurture conditions where every nervous system is supported to find safety.
With this foundation, we take a solution-focused, highly relational approach. We collaborate with leaders, staff, families, and young people to identify strengths, honour lived realities, and co-create meaningful pathways forward. For us, inclusion is rooted in belonging not simply access to spaces, but the felt sense of being seen, valued, and understood. We support communities to build environments that promote connection, wellbeing, and participation, placing the needs of the whole school community at the heart of every decision. Using neuroscience-informed strategies, we help establish cultures where stress is responded to, not punished; where curiosity leads; and where every member of the community is enabled to thrive. It’s reflective and practical: weaving evidence with compassion so that change is not only possible, but sustainable, inside and out.
Areas of Support
Wellbeing – Staff & Children
True wellbeing begins with a regulated nervous system.
We work with you to understand your community’s stress responses and create conditions that make safety, calm, and connection possible, for both staff and children. Together, we build cultures that sustain resilience, joy, and belonging.
SEND & Inclusion
Inclusion is not an initiative, it’s a felt experience.
Through a brain-based and relational lens, we help you uncover what’s getting in the way of access and participation. We guide you in designing practices that honour each learner’s strengths and needs, allowing every child to be understood, valued, and included.
Preparing for Adulthood
Transitions matter.
We support settings to prepare young people for adulthood with confidence by prioritising agency, identity, and connection. Our work helps young people build internal safety and self-advocacy skills, laying the foundations for meaningful futures.
Graduated Response - SEND
Improve your schools'; *Universal offer*Targeted responses*Specialist support
A responsive system sees beneath behaviour.
We strengthen your graduated response by exploring what is working, where needs are unmet, and how adaptations can create more consistency and connection. Together, we help ensure provision is relational, purposeful, and grounded in real understanding.
Parent / Carer Relationships
When home and setting move together, young people flourish.
We help build trusting relationships with parents and carers through shared language, collaborative planning, and pathways anchored in compassion and clarity. The result: adults who feel supported, and children held safely across all environments.
Consultancy with Brenda
I love learning, discovering or figuring out things that fill me with awe and wonder.
For 10 years, my passion has been exploring the brain-body connection and how it can improve quality of life, both my own and others’.
I’ve been a teacher for 21 years, starting in mainstream secondary education and then moving into SEND in various roles, including Strategic Lead for a SEN post-16 school and SEND Lead for a teaching school. I was awarded SLE status in SEND in 2016.
For the past four years, I’ve worked as an advisory teacher for a local authority, supporting schools in embedding whole-school inclusion and supporting with behaviour.
I’m also a qualified Dru yoga and mindfulness teacher.
I’m the Education Director at Forming Connections, which I have founded with the mission to share knowledge and practical tools from neuroscience to support children and adults in education, rehabilitation, and wider community settings.
