The eight-week programme — built around your stress response.

Every session zooms into a different part of the stress response — from the moment something triggers the chimp brain, through the flood of stress hormones, to the point where the thinking brain goes offline and behaviour takes over. That cycle is the spine of the whole programme. Each week, young people learn to see a different step of it more clearly, and to interrupt it earlier. The biofeedback technology makes each part of that cycle visible in real time — not as a theory on a slide, but as data from their own body, on a screen in front of them.

What it is

Eight weekly sessions of 45 to 60 minutes. Small groups of up to four young people — or one-to-one for those who can't yet access group work. Suitable for ages 7 to 25 and delivered in schools, homes, residential care, alternative provision, and community settings.

The content is progressive. Each week builds on the last. By Week 8, the young person has a working understanding of their own nervous system, a set of regulation tools they've practised, and physiological data showing the changes they've made — their own evidence, in their own body.

The Technology

Three pieces of biofeedback kit, used as part of the programme. The young person doesn't have to take our word for any of this. They can see it happening on a screen.

Heart Rhythm Monitor

A small clip on the earlobe, connected to a screen. It measures heart rate variability — the rhythm between heartbeats — and shows whether the nervous system is in coherence or out of it.

We take a baseline at the start of every programme - over eight weeks, the data tells a story the young person can read for themselves.

Neurofeedback Headset

A headset that sits across the forehead and measures blood flow to the prefrontal cortex — the thinking, planning, regulating part of the brain.

We can measure brainwaves and can see when the prefrontal cortex is active and when the chimp brain takes over.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device

A small device held against the chest that delivers gentle vibration patterns. It works through the vagus nerve to bring the nervous system out of fight-or-flight and into rest-and-digest.

Headphones play binaural beats to influence brain waves.

The eight weeks

Week 1 — Understanding Your Nervous System

The science behind why regulation comes first.

Week 2 — Recognising Survival Mode

The chimp brain, the threat response, and what it actually feels like.

Week 3 — Activating Your Regulation System

Bringing the prefrontal cortex back online.

Week 4 — Reading Your Body's Signals

Emotions as data, not problems.

Week 5 — Heart-Centred Regulation

Heart rate variability and coherence training.

Week 6 — Regulation in Real Life

The circle of control — what we can and can't change.

Week 7 — Sustained Regulation Practice

Mindfulness, resilience, and building the habit.

Week 8 — Bringing It All Together

Reviewing the data, claiming the change.

Got a young person in mind?

Below you can find a link for our referral forms for our Children and Young People services as well as Families, for both professionals and parents/guardians.

If you are not sure if you are eligible for support, please contact us and we will try and help.

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