Empowering professionals to understand neurodiversity and support families in managing emotions and behaviours.

We bring over a decade of experience in training professionals across the statutory, voluntary, and private sectors. Our innovative, inclusive and dynamic programmes feature interactive participation, engaging graphics, and skills and tools that can be applied in practice.

Choose from bite-sized, half day or full-day courses and bespoke packages tailored to meet the unique needs of your team.

Training for Social Care Practitioners, Adoption Agencies, Foster Agencies and Foster Carers

Therapeutic Caregiving for Neurodiversity and FASD

Are you supporting children and families who are struggling with emotion and sensory regulation and difficulties with social communication, relationships and attachment?

Are approaches for trauma and attachment such as therapeutic parenting not always proving effective?

Neurodivergent conditions ADHD, autism and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) often lie behind the additional needs and challenging behaviours we see in care experienced children.

An understanding of neurodiversity and therapeutic caregiving skills and strategies that can be applied in practice will ensure effective support and interventions to the most vulnerable children and families and has the potential to prevent the ending of placements.

  • Paradigm shift to acceptance of brain based differences, reducing blame and shame and reframing therapeutic parenting, including anti-oppressive practice in this area.

  • The interrelationships between neurodiversity, trauma and attachment

  • What is FASD and why is it so hidden?

  • Introduction to the Neurowise parallel track approach to meeting the wellbeing needs of both caregivers and children with an Acceptance and Commitment Coaching approach.

  • A tool kit of skills to build for caregiving for neurodiversity including:

    MDT coordination, support network building, sensory environment adaptation, advocacy, relationship maintenance.

This training will help you to achieve compliance with the following NICE Quality Standards on FASD:

  • Statement 5: Children and young people with a diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have a management plan to address their needs.

  • Service providers have training programmes for healthcare professionals on managing FASD.

Training for Children’s Residential Care

Therapeutic Caregiving for Neurodiversity and FASD

Are you facing challenging behaviours that don’t respond to your usual strategies—such as aggression, risk-taking, false allegations, or difficulties with understanding consequences?

Therapeutic caregiving techniques like PACE need adapting for neurodiversity and FASD.

Neurowise Training offers a brain-first approach to help you make sense of these challenges. We provide practical tools and strategies to support the children in your care—while also addressing your own well-being through our unique parallel track approach.

We equip you with a toolkit of skills to meet needs, manage emotions, and strengthen relationships—for both staff and children. This includes tools for:

  • Spiky profile and dysmaturity

  • Sensory interventions

  • Emotion regulation and threat reduction

  • Understanding and reducing defensive behaviours and increasing safety in relationships

  • Executive functioning differences and strategies for demand avoidance, blocked goals and confabulation

  • Communication tools tailored for processing, memory and learning differences.

Understanding and Skills in Neurodiversity: Autism, ADHD and FASD

Who is this training for?

  • Social care

  • Education

  • Adoption agencies

  • Psychologists

  • Psychotherapists

  • Charities

  • Business

  • Residential care workers

What we will cover

·        Key features and diagnostic criteria of common neurodivergent conditions: Autism, ADHD and FASD.

·        How neurodivergence can intersect with trauma and attachment needs.

·        Sensory and emotion processing and regulation differences in neurodivergent conditions.

·        Executive functioning differences in neurodivergent conditions.

·        Case studies of anonymised neurodivergent clients.

·        A toolbox for supporting neurodivergent clients to compliment existing provision:

How the training is delivered

This training is available for up to 20 participants and can be offered as a full-day course, or a condensed half day course to meet your needs. You can choose to attend online or in-person.

FASD Essentials

This is our workshop covering all the essentials of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and an overview of key management strategies. This training will help you to achieve compliance with the following NICE Quality Standard on FASD:

Service providers have training programmes for healthcare professionals on managing FASD.

Who is this training for?

Anyone working with families or who is interested in FASD

What we will cover

What is FASD? Causal factors, ten brain domains and UK prevalence.

  • Co-occuring conditions including ADHD and autism and attachment difficulties.

  • Facial features and diagnosis.

  • Why is FASD so hidden? Spiky profile, IQ versus executive functioning, dysmaturity.

  • Sensory and emotion processing and regulation differences in FASD.

  • Overview of key strategies for managing emotions and behavioural symptoms.

How the training is delivered

This can be delivered as a 2-hour bite sized workshop, a half day or full day and is available for up to 20 participants. You can choose to attend online or in-person.

What people are saying

  • “This was the best training I've been on in a long time. Truly life changing for my practice and the way I think about supporting children and families. Thank you so so much."

  • “The training was wonderful, really engaging, extremely interesting, with great content and it motivated me to learn more"

  • "Fantastic course! We've learnt so much and this has given us the confidence to push forward towards a diagnosis. How you deliver it is just perfect."