🌱 Foundations Pathway

A Gentle, Accredited Starting Point for Learners Rebuilding Confidence, Curiosity & Emotional Safety

Every learner starts somewhere — we start with safety.

The Foundations Pathway is designed for young people taking their first steps back into learning after anxiety, trauma, or long-term disengagement.

It focuses on rebuilding trust, confidence, and curiosity through creative, nurturing, and relationship-based education.

We understand that for many neurodivergent or emotionally overwhelmed learners, traditional classrooms can feel unsafe or unmanageable.

This pathway provides exactly what’s needed first — a calm, compassionate space to grow at their own pace.

Many learners begin here before moving on to our Future, Creative, or Independence Pathways — creating a supported route back into learning, life skills, and hope.

💬 Who It’s For

    • Young people aged 9–25 who have disengaged from education or are on EOTAS packages
    • Learners with anxiety, trauma, or low self-esteem
    • Those who struggle to cope in busy classrooms or large social settings
    • Students re-engaging after school refusal, exclusion, or extended absence
    • Neurodivergent learners who need a flexible, relationship-based approach

    The Foundations Pathway helps each learner reconnect with learning safely — without pressure, judgment, or fear of failure.

🌿 How It Works

  • Individualised learning plans built around emotional readiness and strengths
  • 1:1 or small-group mentoring sessions
  • Creative and experiential learning (art, music, movement, discussion, nature-based)
  • Flexible delivery — online or in-community
  • Regular reviews and progress updates for parents and professionals

Every learner is supported by mentors trained in trauma-informed practice, neurodiversity, and relational education, ensuring every session feels calm, predictable, and emotionally safe.

  • 🧠 Our Trauma-Informed Approach

    Every session is built around emotional safety and co-regulation.

    Our mentors and educators understand how trauma, anxiety, and sensory stress affect learning — creating an environment where young people feel calm, respected, and in control of their own pace and progress.

  • 💖 Why It Matters

    For many young people, learning can’t begin until they feel safe enough to take risks again.

    The Foundations Pathway focuses on re-establishing trust — in adults, in learning, and in themselves.

    It’s not about tests or grades; it’s about building the internal foundations that make future learning possible: confidence, connection, and curiosity.

  • 🌈 Outcomes

    Learners completing the Foundations Pathway will:

    • Gain accredited ASDAN Personal Progress or PSHE credits
    • Increase confidence, communication, and motivation
    • Strengthen emotional awareness and self-regulation
    • Develop readiness to progress into other Moving Mindspace pathways
    • Reconnect with their own potential and sense of achievement

✉️ Get in Touch

If your child or a young person you support is struggling to re-engage with education, the Foundations Pathway can help them take that first step — gently and safely.


Before we can build the future, we must first rebuild belief — in learning, in trust, and in themselves.

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