Give Your Team the Skills to Understand Behaviour and Reclaim the Classroom
The 12 Hour +ProActive Approaches in Schools Course. Practical, classroom-ready training that transforms how your staff understand and respond to behaviour.
Includes a full behavioural audit tailored to your school before the course begins
Is This Right for Your School?
This course is for you if any of these sound familiar:
What Your Team Will Walk Away With
Not just knowledge — practical skills and confidence they can use in the classroom the next morning.
Understand the 'Why' Behind Behaviour
Your team will see behaviour through a trauma-informed lens — understanding ACEs, attachment, and shame so they can respond to the cause, not just the symptom.
De-escalate with Confidence
Practical, classroom-specific de-escalation techniques including help scripts, the STOP strategy, and Perry's 3 R's (Regulate, Relate, Reason).
Build a Therapeutic Culture
A shared language for talking about behaviour across your school — replacing punitive reactions with empathetic, child-focused responses.
Respond Safely When It Matters
Low-level guiding, escorting, and 1-person physical intervention techniques using the research-based +ProActive Building Blocks© methodology.
Keep the Thinking Brain Online
Strategies that help dysregulated children return to a state where learning is possible — not just compliance, but genuine engagement.
Create Behaviour Plans That Work
Learn how to include children and young people in behaviour planning, promoting inclusion and therapeutic approaches that stick.
Imagine Shouting Instructions Through a Locked Door
That's what traditional behaviour management feels like for a child whose stress response has taken over. Their thinking brain is offline. No amount of reasoning, consequences, or raised voices will reach them — because the door is locked from the inside.
This course gives your staff the key. Not a louder voice — but an understanding of what locked that door in the first place, and the practical techniques to help the child open it themselves.
When your team understands the neuroscience behind behaviour — trauma, attachment, shame, and their impact on brain architecture — everything changes. The behaviour stops being a problem to manage and becomes a signal to understand.
Full Course Content
Four modules covering the what, the why, the how, and safe physical intervention.
We complete a full behavioural audit with you before the course. This ensures we teach the correct level of strategies and techniques for your setting — whether primary, secondary, or specialist.
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What Schools Say After the Course
"The course was transformative for our staff. Within weeks, we saw a measurable reduction in incidents and a genuine shift in how our team talks about behaviour."
Primary Academy, West Midlands
"This isn't another PowerPoint day. The experiential exercises meant our staff actually practised the techniques — and they remembered them when it mattered."
Secondary School, Warwickshire
"For the first time, our whole team has a shared language for behaviour. The children have noticed the difference, and so have we."
Junior School, Oxfordshire
Frequently Asked Questions
Get More Info & Book Your Course
Download our full course guide for pricing, upcoming dates, and everything you need to make the case internally. Or book a call to discuss whether this course is right for your school.
We deliver to a maximum of 12–18 delegates per session — book early to secure your preferred date.