Regulating the Room
What is it?
A six-week online package of training and support for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) students and Early Career Teachers (ECTs) focused on regulation, wellbeing for both teachers and their classes, and supporting challenging behaviours in the classroom.
National data from the Department for Education’s School Workforce in England report shows that only around 68% of teachers who qualified five years earlier are still teaching, meaning more than 30% leave the profession within their first five years. By giving new teachers practical tools to support their own wellbeing and that of their pupils, this programme can help more teachers stay in the classroom, build their confidence, and grow a thriving, stable workforce.
That’s why Regulating the Room exists — a six-week online programme for ITT students and Early Career Teachers that builds understanding of nervous system regulation, teacher wellbeing, and behaviour support through a trauma- and polyvagal-informed lens.This programme uses polyvagal theory and the escalation curve reimagined as a nervous system journey to help teachers track, understand, and influence their own regulation and that of their students. Supporting the journey with strategies and advice.
The package will also support in early identification of SEND within the classroom, using the graduated response process of assess/plan/do/review, from the SEND Code of Practice, which is a core element with the package
Why This Matters
This programme supports new teachers to:
- Understand their own regulation and how it influences confidence in behaviour management
- Build sustainable emotional resilience and a confident classroom presence
- Notice, track and respond to signs of dysregulation in themselves and their pupils
- Understand and manage classroom behaviour through a nervous system lens
- Identify early indicators of SEND needs in a practical, supportive way
- Support pupils with SEND within the classroom using the graduated approach (assess, plan, do, review) from the SEND Code of Practice
- Create emotionally safe and inclusive classroom environments for all learners
What’s Included?
- Week 1 (1.5 hours):
Introduction to nervous system regulation, the escalation curve, and daily tracking tools inspired by polyvagal theory.
Staff explore their own regulation patterns and identify potential triggers. - Weeks 2–5 (1hour per week):
- Guided reflection on self-monitoring
- Data analysis and pattern spotting
- Developing personal regulation strategies
- Planning classroom adjustments and supports
- Preparing to apply the same approach with children
- Identifying emerging SEND needs that can be underlying CYPs dysregulation (Cognition and Learning, Communication and Interaction, Social and Emotional and Mental Health and Sensory and Physical)
- Week 6 (1.5 hours):
- Review and reflect: what worked, what still needs support
- Next steps
- Optional moderated WhatsApp group for in-between support and Q&A
Facilitated by 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.
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Dates and times - Autumn Term
Next programme dates
There will be a six week course every half term
January term dates coming soon!
Do you have questions?
If you have any questions about this offer, please get in touch.
If you’re part of a teaching hub, academy, school, or university and would like a bespoke version, for example, different dates or an alternative format such as two twilight sessions, we’d love to discuss this with you.u
Price £95
Take part in this 6 week package and help revolutionise your teaching practice and wellbeing!