Grounded in Connection

11/11/2025

Please consider adding your signature to the open letter below.

With enormous thanks to our campaigning comrade Anna Maxwell Martin, for speaking up with us on Good Morning Britain with Richard Madely and Susanne Reid.
The government must listen:

1. Reverse all cuts to the ASGSF
2. Conduct a robust and rigorous independent consultation with the sector and families
3. Make the ASGSF a permanent, ring fenced fund.

Sign our open letter to Josh MacAlister, Minister for Children and families asking for exactly this here:

https://asgsfprotest.com/add-your-signature-an-open-letter-to-josh-macalister-mp-minister-for-children-and-families/

Your rhetoric is not the reality Department for Education

04/11/2025

An excellent read for anyone navigating hospital healthcare with neurodivergent children. Latest blog from NeuroConnect ❤

Bright lights. Unfamiliar smells. Different foods. Noises that never ever stop. And people, many, many people - all day, and all night, asking questions, demanding things, entering your space with endless requests. Hospitals are the least friendly place for the neurodivergent child, and yet every da...

22/10/2025

21/10/2025

No big surprises here.

How can behaviour management in schools be reimagined through the eyes of those most affected? ARC West’s co-designed research project, led by young people, revealed common sanctions like isolation harm mental health and other outcomes. A new wave of research is challenging the long-standing domin...

20/10/2025

Autistic Burnout - Supporting Young People At Home & School. Neuroaffirming ways to spot the signs, reduce demands & support. Free Training by myself and Viv Dawes

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https://autisticrealms.com/autistic-burnout-supporting-young-people-at-home-school-3/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jetpack_social

20/10/2025

Supporting pupils through Autistic Burnout (Neuro-Affirming Teacher Guide). Free Training from myself and Viv Dawes ABN

https://autisticrealms.com/supporting-pupils-through-autistic-burnout-teacher-guide/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jetpack_social

20/10/2025

If you’ve recognised yourself in these responses — fawning, fighting, fleeing, freezing, or collapsing — please know: nothing about you needs “fixing.”

But support can help you find safety, steadiness, and self-connection again.

In my 1:1 coaching, we gently explore what your nervous system needs to feel safe and resourced — so you can respond to life with more calm, clarity, and confidence.

You’ll learn how to:
🌿 Understand your body’s cues with compassion
🌿 Regulate your nervous system in real time
🌿 Rebuild boundaries and self-trust without shame

It’s not about pushing harder — it’s about coming home to yourself.

✨ You don’t have to do this alone.
Let’s explore what support could look like for you.

📩 Send me a message or visit www.groundedinconnection.co.uk to book a free connection call.

15/10/2025

Recommend these informative webinars - just signed up for a future PIP one myself...
Emma

Applying for DLA and PIP: if you'd like to know more, do sign up for our webinars or find links to videos on our website:
https://thebelayfoundation.org.uk/benefits-advice/

12/10/2025

Hi all! Hope you're having a good weekend? I've been feeling poorly the past few days but feeling a bit brighter today, so now sitting at my laptop attempting to catch up with emails and admin. I've finally gotten around to setting up a Google business profile for Grounded in Connection 🎉🙂 But it needs a bit of a boost...

If you've worked with me (in any capacity during the last few years - via training, coaching or theraplay) and are able to leave a review here, I'd be incredibly grateful 🙏 TIA. x

Post a review to our profile on Google

29/09/2025

If you're...

- an adoptive parent, foster carer or special guardian and your child has recently started at a new school, or
- you are working in an education setting supporting children in care, or who have previously been in care
..you'll need to know about Pupil Premium Plus funding and what schools need to do to claim this vital funding ahead of the schools data census date of 2nd October.

**Important information to support families and schools with the process for claiming PP+ for the next financial year (written with input from The Hope Virtual School, Bristol):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J0d4N0coKpTR9t89OmE90Izda1mJR_yN/view?usp=drive_link

PP+ guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aSQnLvt0PHsUqE_oiWWpFRkZf7wZWvQ4/view?usp=drive_link

Please share 🙏

25/09/2025

The importance of using the right language...

I was disappointed yesterday (that may be an understatement...) as when I went to sign up for a Local Authority training account, on being invited to select a number of tickboxes according to my personal situation, there was an option under 'do you consider yourself to be disabled' which read:

'Yes - cognitive impairment (such as autistic spectrum disorder)'

The team responsible for designing this online form really needs to do better than this as it reflects the whole organisation. Autism is not a cognitive impairment!

To add irony to the situation, the online form I was filling in was to be able to look at any further training in inclusion and neurodivergence on offer in my local area.

I'll be contacting them to suggest they change their use of language in these key places - it's simple stuff, but the impact of getting it wrong can be huge.

24/09/2025

In the last couple of weeks I've bumped into two people I've worked with who have both separately told me that they still often think of things I told or taught them when we worked together (even going back 18 years!). Each time I heard it I felt very touched that in the short exchanges we had, those people had felt compelled to share this with me - made my days.

If someone's had a positive impact on your working (or personal) life and you haven't shared it with them, this is my invitation to you to do so today. ❤