Nervous System Literacy
TRAINING WORKSHOP
Nervous System Literacy for learning, wellbeing and behaviour
You invest a huge amount of time and care in helping young people learn, regulate and thrive – while navigating increasing levels of stress and pressure in a fast-changing world.
Nervous system literacy offers a science-based understanding of wellbeing, behaviour and emotional regulation, helping staff better understand what’s driving anxiety, shutdown and regulating behaviours such as self-harm – so students can feel safer, more connected and more able to learn.
Understand the science of the nervous system and stress responses
Explore how biology shapes behaviour, wellbeing, learning, relationships and performance
Experience practical tools for regulation and co-regulation
Build greater clarity and confidence when supporting students experiencing stress and turning to regulating behaviours such as self-harm
If you’d like to explore whether this could support your team, you’re very welcome to book a 20-minute discovery call or email me.
"The guidance you provided was tangible, helpful and reassuring. It was pitched well, so both experienced and less experienced staff were able to learn. They felt that your lived experience gave it an authenticity which was humbling."
Roedean School, East Sussex
WHAT’S INCLUDED
A training for pastoral teams, youth workers, educators and other professionals
Nervous system literacy provides insight and tools to work with the body’s biology rather than against it. It explains what’s really happening beneath the surface of stress, anxiety, shutdown and regulating behaviours so you can respond with clearer strategies.
Delivered online or in person across the UK
90-120 mins flexible session to allow Q&A
Suitable for staff and practitioners in schools, higher education and youth organisations
Includes handouts and a companion guide for young people
Optional follow-on sessions for parents and young people
ABOUT THE TRAINER
What makes this training different?
Beth Derry is a Zoologist, science communicator, Resilience Coach and Certified Havening Techniques® practitioner based in Brighton.
For more than two decades, she has helped some of the world’s best-known organisations communicate complex topics relating to human behaviour, sustainability and systems change in ways that are clear, engaging and accessible.
Today, Beth brings that same skill to the science of being human – translating nervous system science into practical understanding that helps people make sense of stress, behaviour, emotional regulation and wellbeing.
As a mum of two teenagers, she grounds her work in the realities of modern life and education. Beth also draws carefully and professionally on her own lived experience of self-harm as a university student, helping bring compassion, clarity and a shame-free perspective to a subject that is often misunderstood and rarely talked about openly.
