Gerry Diamond.
@gerrydiamond1971.bsky.social
Nurture Lead. CBT Practitioner. Teacher of Mindfulness. International Speaker. Attachment & Trauma Trainer. gerard.diamond@ourcloud.buzz
We need to understand that our pupils challenging behaviour is often a product of a nervous system dysregulation. Switch from thinking that this is "challenging" to "distressed behaviour" can help the healing process.
Instead of co-reacting,we need to co-regulate. 🧠🌱
Instead of co-reacting,we need to co-regulate. 🧠🌱
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We need to understand that our pupils challenging behaviour is often a product of a nervous system dysregulation. Switch from thinking that this is "challenging" to "distressed behaviour" can help the healing process.
Instead of co-reacting,we need to co-regulate. 🧠🌱
Instead of co-reacting,we need to co-regulate. 🧠🌱
As I always say, "You don't teach a subject,you teach young people."
The power of connectedness & those therapeutic moments open up opportunities. A smile,compliment,
creating relationally enriched environments make a difference.
"It's not what you know,It's how you are."🧠🌱
The power of connectedness & those therapeutic moments open up opportunities. A smile,compliment,
creating relationally enriched environments make a difference.
"It's not what you know,It's how you are."🧠🌱
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As I always say, "You don't teach a subject,you teach young people."
The power of connectedness & those therapeutic moments open up opportunities. A smile,compliment,
creating relationally enriched environments make a difference.
"It's not what you know,It's how you are."🧠🌱
The power of connectedness & those therapeutic moments open up opportunities. A smile,compliment,
creating relationally enriched environments make a difference.
"It's not what you know,It's how you are."🧠🌱
When children are in survival mode,they shift from parasympathetic to sympathetic.A body flooded with stress signals hyperalert but exhausting.This event will help support anyone working with children to shift their bodies into a body that feels safe🧠🌱
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When children are in survival mode,they shift from parasympathetic to sympathetic.A body flooded with stress signals hyperalert but exhausting.This event will help support anyone working with children to shift their bodies into a body that feels safe🧠🌱
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1776798655... You will not solve the behaviour of our children by punishing them into a better way of being.This will only exacerbate their inner word. If we can be curious about their behaviour,we can help them deactivate these defensive manoeuvres that ensure their survival.
October 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1776798655... You will not solve the behaviour of our children by punishing them into a better way of being.This will only exacerbate their inner word. If we can be curious about their behaviour,we can help them deactivate these defensive manoeuvres that ensure their survival.
Due to working in a secondary school & busy myself,this will be the only time I get this one out
Nurture isn’t a room, but it should be every room in an educational setting. Creating a nurturing environment that allows children to learn, grow, and explore their potential🧠🌱
Nurture isn’t a room, but it should be every room in an educational setting. Creating a nurturing environment that allows children to learn, grow, and explore their potential🧠🌱
July 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Due to working in a secondary school & busy myself,this will be the only time I get this one out
Nurture isn’t a room, but it should be every room in an educational setting. Creating a nurturing environment that allows children to learn, grow, and explore their potential🧠🌱
Nurture isn’t a room, but it should be every room in an educational setting. Creating a nurturing environment that allows children to learn, grow, and explore their potential🧠🌱
Breaking down the 6 principles through a trauma responsive, neuroscience lens.
What would we like to achieve?
Resilience (What is resilience?)
Regulating emotions.
Help pupils better navigate the school environment.
Make academic progress.
Nurture is everybody's business
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What would we like to achieve?
Resilience (What is resilience?)
Regulating emotions.
Help pupils better navigate the school environment.
Make academic progress.
Nurture is everybody's business
🧠🌱
July 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Breaking down the 6 principles through a trauma responsive, neuroscience lens.
What would we like to achieve?
Resilience (What is resilience?)
Regulating emotions.
Help pupils better navigate the school environment.
Make academic progress.
Nurture is everybody's business
🧠🌱
What would we like to achieve?
Resilience (What is resilience?)
Regulating emotions.
Help pupils better navigate the school environment.
Make academic progress.
Nurture is everybody's business
🧠🌱
Pupils brains do not learn, process, or absorb information in hypervigilance. It becomes difficult to access the hippocampus,the part of the brain for memory & learning consolidation,which means it is harder for them to form new memories & harder to access what they do know🧠🌱
July 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Pupils brains do not learn, process, or absorb information in hypervigilance. It becomes difficult to access the hippocampus,the part of the brain for memory & learning consolidation,which means it is harder for them to form new memories & harder to access what they do know🧠🌱
Micromanagement behaviour strategies encourage pupils to suppress their emotions & robs them of the opportunity to learn how to regulate them.They need to be able to express their emotions without fear of punishment. Instead,give them the opportunity to learn how to regulate them🧠🌱
July 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Micromanagement behaviour strategies encourage pupils to suppress their emotions & robs them of the opportunity to learn how to regulate them.They need to be able to express their emotions without fear of punishment. Instead,give them the opportunity to learn how to regulate them🧠🌱
When supporting pupils with multiple ACEs,there is no quick fix solution,we also can't change the past.Its about the little interactions, being present & creating space to help them feel & grow.Opening up conversations that are healthy & supportive.
Transformation takes time.🧠🌱
Transformation takes time.🧠🌱
July 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
When supporting pupils with multiple ACEs,there is no quick fix solution,we also can't change the past.Its about the little interactions, being present & creating space to help them feel & grow.Opening up conversations that are healthy & supportive.
Transformation takes time.🧠🌱
Transformation takes time.🧠🌱
Talking to an amygdala never works.
Basic neuroscience. 🧠🌱
Basic neuroscience. 🧠🌱
July 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Talking to an amygdala never works.
Basic neuroscience. 🧠🌱
Basic neuroscience. 🧠🌱
I have only 1 date available now,12th August re-presentation.
Other dates are scattered about the year.
How to Cultiivate Create and Build More Sustainable Trauma Informed Responsive Practices Into Your School Systems.
Evidence based approaches.
Biological Underpinnings,etc
Other dates are scattered about the year.
How to Cultiivate Create and Build More Sustainable Trauma Informed Responsive Practices Into Your School Systems.
Evidence based approaches.
Biological Underpinnings,etc
June 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I have only 1 date available now,12th August re-presentation.
Other dates are scattered about the year.
How to Cultiivate Create and Build More Sustainable Trauma Informed Responsive Practices Into Your School Systems.
Evidence based approaches.
Biological Underpinnings,etc
Other dates are scattered about the year.
How to Cultiivate Create and Build More Sustainable Trauma Informed Responsive Practices Into Your School Systems.
Evidence based approaches.
Biological Underpinnings,etc
Young people who have experienced trauma,Adverse Childhood Experiences without a buffer to mitigate the stress are at a cognitive disadvantage of brain development .
Higher parts of the brain are underdeveloped, lower overdeveloped/over sensitive.🧠🌱
Higher parts of the brain are underdeveloped, lower overdeveloped/over sensitive.🧠🌱
June 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Young people who have experienced trauma,Adverse Childhood Experiences without a buffer to mitigate the stress are at a cognitive disadvantage of brain development .
Higher parts of the brain are underdeveloped, lower overdeveloped/over sensitive.🧠🌱
Higher parts of the brain are underdeveloped, lower overdeveloped/over sensitive.🧠🌱
As well as learning, pre-frontal cortex narrowing becomes overstimulated lower brain regions when a young person is dysregulated. This can show up as "challenging behaviours"when what we are actually witnessing are vulnerable nervous systems & not problem children 🧠🌱
June 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As well as learning, pre-frontal cortex narrowing becomes overstimulated lower brain regions when a young person is dysregulated. This can show up as "challenging behaviours"when what we are actually witnessing are vulnerable nervous systems & not problem children 🧠🌱
At its essence, trauma is in the nervous system. When your brain perceives a threat,it turns on your sympathetic response, moving from safety to activation, triggering a massive physiological response.🧠🌱
June 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
At its essence, trauma is in the nervous system. When your brain perceives a threat,it turns on your sympathetic response, moving from safety to activation, triggering a massive physiological response.🧠🌱
Understanding the window of tolerance is crucial in helping children manage stress & emotions.
Hyperarousal. Heightened emotions,aggression,anger panic.
Hypoarousal. Shut down, numb,dissociation.
By creating safe spaces, we can offer support to widen their window.🧠🌱
Hyperarousal. Heightened emotions,aggression,anger panic.
Hypoarousal. Shut down, numb,dissociation.
By creating safe spaces, we can offer support to widen their window.🧠🌱
June 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Understanding the window of tolerance is crucial in helping children manage stress & emotions.
Hyperarousal. Heightened emotions,aggression,anger panic.
Hypoarousal. Shut down, numb,dissociation.
By creating safe spaces, we can offer support to widen their window.🧠🌱
Hyperarousal. Heightened emotions,aggression,anger panic.
Hypoarousal. Shut down, numb,dissociation.
By creating safe spaces, we can offer support to widen their window.🧠🌱
Snippets of some excellent feedback from Dumfries.
Amazing presentation giving relevant information & strategies.
I really enjoyed the evidence based delivery.
Information about brain development was very interesting.
It will impact my practice with dysregulated learners🧠🌱
Amazing presentation giving relevant information & strategies.
I really enjoyed the evidence based delivery.
Information about brain development was very interesting.
It will impact my practice with dysregulated learners🧠🌱
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Snippets of some excellent feedback from Dumfries.
Amazing presentation giving relevant information & strategies.
I really enjoyed the evidence based delivery.
Information about brain development was very interesting.
It will impact my practice with dysregulated learners🧠🌱
Amazing presentation giving relevant information & strategies.
I really enjoyed the evidence based delivery.
Information about brain development was very interesting.
It will impact my practice with dysregulated learners🧠🌱
When a young persons brain is anxious, worried, or afraid, their body shifts into survival mode & they cannot absorb or process information. Logic shuts down & emotions take over.🧠🌱
June 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
When a young persons brain is anxious, worried, or afraid, their body shifts into survival mode & they cannot absorb or process information. Logic shuts down & emotions take over.🧠🌱
Always remember a pupil proudly showing me her report card.All top marks in class.She said,"I hated the subject but loved my teacher." If you solely focus on rules, you spend most of your time enforcing them. A classroom environment is best built on meaningful relationships🧠🌱
June 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Always remember a pupil proudly showing me her report card.All top marks in class.She said,"I hated the subject but loved my teacher." If you solely focus on rules, you spend most of your time enforcing them. A classroom environment is best built on meaningful relationships🧠🌱
Visuals inside & outside my nurture room.
Teaching pupils about their brains, cortex/limbic/brainstem,their bodies,nervous system states, sympathetic/parasympathetic responses, neuroplasticity,self regulation, window of tolerance.
When children know better, they do better.
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Teaching pupils about their brains, cortex/limbic/brainstem,their bodies,nervous system states, sympathetic/parasympathetic responses, neuroplasticity,self regulation, window of tolerance.
When children know better, they do better.
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June 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Visuals inside & outside my nurture room.
Teaching pupils about their brains, cortex/limbic/brainstem,their bodies,nervous system states, sympathetic/parasympathetic responses, neuroplasticity,self regulation, window of tolerance.
When children know better, they do better.
🧠🌱
Teaching pupils about their brains, cortex/limbic/brainstem,their bodies,nervous system states, sympathetic/parasympathetic responses, neuroplasticity,self regulation, window of tolerance.
When children know better, they do better.
🧠🌱
ACEs / trauma can have a profound impact on brain development. Neurobiologically,it impairs pre-frontal cortex activity responsible for executive functions regulating emotions, logic & judgement. This can lead to heightened emotional responses.
Educators need to know this🧠🌱
Educators need to know this🧠🌱
June 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
ACEs / trauma can have a profound impact on brain development. Neurobiologically,it impairs pre-frontal cortex activity responsible for executive functions regulating emotions, logic & judgement. This can lead to heightened emotional responses.
Educators need to know this🧠🌱
Educators need to know this🧠🌱
Fear & punishment based discipline works in the short term. True discipline in co-regulation & restorative conversations teaches,not controls. This strengthens connection & builds long-term relationships. 🧠🌱
June 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Fear & punishment based discipline works in the short term. True discipline in co-regulation & restorative conversations teaches,not controls. This strengthens connection & builds long-term relationships. 🧠🌱
In schools,children's psychological needs start with & are prioritised by basic brain map management & how the brain is organised. Starting with basic requirements for human survival. Safety,love, & belonging.When we meet their needs, we unlock their potential.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In schools,children's psychological needs start with & are prioritised by basic brain map management & how the brain is organised. Starting with basic requirements for human survival. Safety,love, & belonging.When we meet their needs, we unlock their potential.
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When working with young people,they need to feel like the people around them are on their side and have their best intentions at heart. Building relationships is absolutely essential.🧠🌱
June 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When working with young people,they need to feel like the people around them are on their side and have their best intentions at heart. Building relationships is absolutely essential.🧠🌱
When a young person experiences trauma, their emotional age might be halted, which can cause arrested emotional development . Higher parts of the brain are underdeveloped, lower overdeveloped/over sensitive.🧠🌱
June 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
When a young person experiences trauma, their emotional age might be halted, which can cause arrested emotional development . Higher parts of the brain are underdeveloped, lower overdeveloped/over sensitive.🧠🌱
When you grow up in up in a abnormal, harsh psychological environment where your needs aren't met,your brain & body are working to protect you. You learn to suppress, disconnect & adapt to survive. You stop dreaming, hoping .You internalise a message that you were the problem.🧠🌱
June 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When you grow up in up in a abnormal, harsh psychological environment where your needs aren't met,your brain & body are working to protect you. You learn to suppress, disconnect & adapt to survive. You stop dreaming, hoping .You internalise a message that you were the problem.🧠🌱