🎓 Training, CPD & Lived Experience Education

Learning That Builds Understanding, Confidence & Connection

Accredited and lived experience–led training for parents, carers, and professionals — covering trauma, neurodiversity, PDA, emotional regulation, and restorative practice.

For parents and professionals who want to learn, grow, and lead through lived experience.

The Training, CPD & Lived Experience Education branch of Moving Mindspace brings together evidence, empathy, and real-world insight to transform how we understand and respond to neurodivergence, trauma, and emotional wellbeing.

What makes Moving Mindspace different is our blend of professional expertise and lived experience. Every session is designed and co-facilitated by people who have walked these paths themselves — ensuring our training is authentic, practical, and grounded in real change.

We don’t just deliver information — we build connection, reflection, and confidence that last.

🪴 Our Training Pathways

💪 Parent Power

Learning, growth, and rediscovery for parents and carers — helping families understand neurodivergence, build confidence, and find purpose again.

🧠 Professional CPD & Workshops

Evidence-based training for educators, health, and social care professionals on trauma-informed, restorative, and neurodiversity-aware practice.

🌱 Lived Experience Education

Training, mentoring, and opportunities for parents, carers, and individuals with lived experience to share their voices, shape services, and lead change.

💬 Who It’s For

  • Parents and carers seeking to better understand their children — or to grow into advocacy, mentoring, or education roles themselves.
  • Professionals in schools, social care, health, youth justice, and community services who want to embed trauma-informed and neurodiversity-aware practice.
  • Organisations and networks seeking lived experience voices, CPD training, or reflective practice support.

Our training helps people move beyond awareness — into genuine understanding, compassion, and confident action.

🧩 What We Offe


All sessions are co-produced and co-delivered by experienced practitioners and lived experience educators, combining theory, neuroscience, and personal insight.

Training can be delivered online or in-person, as one-off workshops, full CPD days, or bespoke development programmes.

  • 💪 Parent Power

    Learning, recovery, and rediscovery for parents and carers.

    Parent Power supports parents to rebuild confidence, understand their child’s needs, and rediscover their own purpose — personally and professionally.

    Workshops include:

    • Understanding neurodivergence and regulation at home
    • Carer wellbeing and identity recovery
    • Reframing challenges through compassion
    • Exploring self-employment, advocacy, or education roles

  • 🧠 Professional CPD & Team Training

    Evidence-based learning that transforms practice.

    We offer trauma-informed, restorative, and neurodiversity-aware CPD for staff across education, health, and care sectors.

    Popular sessions include:

    • Trauma & the Nervous System: From Survival to Safety
    • Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA): Collaboration Over Control
    • Emotional Regulation & The Calm Lab Approach
    • Restorative Practice & Relationship Repair
    • Understanding and Supporting Emotional-Based School Avoidance (EBSA)
    • Inclusion, Belonging & Reducing Exclusions
    • Co-Regulation Before Behaviour Management

    Each CPD includes reflection tools, practice strategies, and take-away resources ready for immediate use.

  • 🌱 Lived Experience Education

    Changing systems through empathy and understanding.

    We bring lived experience voices into professional learning — ensuring policy, practice, and relationships are informed by those who’ve experienced the systems first-hand

    Includes:

    • Lived experience guest speakers and Q&A panels
    • Joint workshops for parents and professionals
    • Leadership mentoring for parent and carer educators
    • Bespoke awareness sessions for schools, LAs, and organisations

    Our goal is to bridge gaps between families and professionals — creating shared understanding and lasting change.

🌿 How It Works

  • Choose from Parent Learning, Professional CPD, or Bespoke Packages
  • Delivered online, in community venues, or in-house for organisations
  • Includes printed and digital learning materials
  • Optional CPD certification, reflection logs, and follow-up mentoring
  • All sessions are trauma-informed, accessible, and neurodiversity-aware
  • Joint learning sessions for parents and professionals available

🤝 Partnership & Consultancy

We partner with schools, local authorities, and service providers to co-develop trauma-informed and neurodiversity-aware frameworks.

Consultancy packages can include:

  • Observation and reflective practice coaching
  • Policy and curriculum review
  • Tailored CPD and staff development pathways
  • Strategic planning for inclusion and emotional wellbeing

🧠 Why It Matters

Training isn’t about ticking a box — it’s about transforming how people see, hear, and support one another.

Research shows that trauma-informed and neurodiversity-aware practice improves engagement, attendance, and wellbeing across both home and professional settings.

By combining lived experience with evidence, we create learning that builds understanding, empathy, and meaningful change.

Our approach is informed by:

  • The Trauma-Informed Practice Toolkit (Anna Freud Centre, 2022)
  • SEND Code of Practice (2015)
  • Education Endowment Foundation Guidance on Behaviour & Wellbeing (2022)
  • Youth Justice Board Trauma-Informed Framework (2021)

🌈 Outcomes

  • Participants will:

    • Gain practical strategies for supporting regulation and communication
    • Build deeper understanding of trauma and neurodiversity
    • Improve relationships with families, students, or service users
    • Strengthen team confidence and emotional literacy
    • Feel inspired and empowered to make positive change

✉️ Get in Touch

To explore Training, CPD or Parent Learning opportunities with Moving Mindspace, contact our team to request a brochure or discuss bespoke packages.


Because understanding people changes practice — and understanding practice changes lives.


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