Brain Blueprint for Schools
Helping students and staff understand stress, focus, emotions and sleep
When students understand their brain, things start to make sense
Exams, friendships, social media, late nights.
When pressure builds, the survival brain steps in and the thinking brain goes offline, often right when it is needed most.
A student who freezes in an exam or snaps at a friend isn't failing.
Their brain is doing exactly what it is built to do.
Brain Blueprint helps students, staff and parents understand what is happening, and gives them simple tools to work with their brain rather than against it.
Sessions for the whole school community
Students
Year 10+
Why we feel stressed, why sleep matters before exams, and how to calm the survival brain.
Staff
A day time or evening talk
Understand stress responses in yourself and in the classroom, including how ADHD can affect focus, emotions, and sleep.
Plus tools for your own wellbeing.
Parents
A day time or evening talk
A talk on the teenage brain, stress, sleep and how to support your child.
What they will come away understanding
Why your brain reacts in 10 milliseconds
before your thinking brain catches up
Survival brain vs. thinking brain
and how to choose where you are reacting from
How your Stress Bucket fills
and how you can empty it
Why REM sleep matters
and how it regulates your 'Stress Bucket'
How it works
Details
90 minutes · up to 20 per group · in person at your school · ADHD trained · enhanced DBS checked
Includes
- The Brain in Balance Explanation
- Q&A
- A guided relaxation (included as standard unless not wanted)
- Downloadable sleep relaxation MP3
- PDF of The Brain in Balance and Daily DOSE Menu
- 6 months free access to A Peaceful Path App
One-to-One Support
Some students need more than a group session. I also offer one-to-one support for school and exam anxiety.
About Sammi
I am Sammi, a solution-focused clinical hypnotherapist and founder of A Peaceful Path.
Explaining the brain is the foundation of everything I do, in one-to-one work and my workshops.
I am also ADHD trained, and bring that understanding into my explanations where it is relevant.
Registered with CNHC· Member of the AfSFH and the NCH · Enhanced DBS checked
