From Speeding to Slowing Down: What a Speed Awareness Course Can Teach Us About the Classroom
A National Speed Awareness Course might seem an unlikely place to explore neuroscience, behaviour and learning — yet the experience offered surprisingly powerful insights for the classroom. By making concepts such as hazard prediction, emotional regulation and brain-body awareness explicit, the course revealed how decision-making is shaped by stress, emotion and environmental cues. These same principles are highly relevant to education, where children’s behaviour communicates vital information about safety, regulation and readiness to learn. This article reflects on how slowing down, reading behavioural signals and anticipating barriers can support safer roads, calmer classrooms and more connected relationships.
Mentorship, Respect and Belonging: What Boys Are Really Asking For
Being a Mum of adolescent boys brings its own challenges but understanding the neurobiological need for status and respect has changed everything.
What Mindset Really Is
We have heard a lot about growth mindset - but do we really know what it truly means?
Inclusion on Repeat: Time for a New Lens on SEND?
Inclusion isn’t just policy or checklists — it’s about belonging, connection, and removing barriers so every learner can thrive.
Tangled Strings, Trembling Weights, and the Messiness of Neuroplasticity
🌱 Neuroplasticity isn’t neat.
When I think about my own growth, the picture that comes to mind is a ball of string — tangled, knotted, messy. I want each piece laid out neatly in colours and pathways… but right now, it’s knots everywhere.
And that’s exactly what change feels like. Neuroplasticity happens in the mess.
Why Connection Comes Before Learning
Before a child can absorb new information, their brain and body need something more fundamental: safety and connection. Read our blog to learn about your role in creating safety in connection between you and your child.
Behind the Scenes: Where I Find My Inspiration
Inside the Work: A Quiet Look at What We Do
At Beyond Bridges Education, we believe real change begins in relationship, with children, families, and educators. In our latest blog, Lisa Low shares the quiet, powerful moments that shape our work: from co-regulation to writing breakthroughs, from noticing the unseen to holding space for growth.
Read the full post and learn how small shifts can make a big difference.
Plus, stay tuned for our upcoming course on Emotion Coaching Through a Neurobiological Lens — launching Autumn 2025.
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Reflections from the Road: Repairing the Rupture
Across classrooms in Bangkok, family meetings in Belgrade, and conferences on the windswept coasts of Scotland, I’ve noticed the same thing: young people are struggling. Rising anxiety, behavioural challenges, fractured focus, emotional overwhelm—it’s not just happening in isolated pockets. It’s everywhere.
This is more than a crisis of behaviour. It’s a sign of rupture—a fraying of the invisible threads that connect us to ourselves, to one another, and to the environments where learning is meant to flourish.
But if rupture is real, so is repair.
Drawing on the work of Dr. Ed Tronick and Dr. Claudia Gold, this post explores the Repair Theory of Human Development—the idea that healthy relationships aren’t about perfection, but about the ongoing, messy, human process of disconnection and reconnection. We don’t need to get it right all the time—just enough of the time to try again.
Because in the end, it’s not flawless strategies that change lives.
It’s connection.
"Trauma isn’t what happens to us — it’s what fails to happen within us."– Dr. Gordon Neufeld
“Trauma isn’t what happens to us — it’s what fails to happen within us.”
This was just one of the many powerful insights I took away from Dr. Gordon Neufeld’s talk at the Biology of Belonging conference.
He reminded us that attachment, not survival, is our deepest human drive, and that true healing begins when we feel safe enough to feel again.
I’ve written a blog post unpacking his rich, heartfelt talk — full of humour, wisdom, and challenge — and why it matters so much for educators, parents, and professionals working with young people.
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