CPD-accredited programmes helping schools understand behaviour,
intervene earlier and strengthen inclusion.

  • BACP · UKCP · BPS Registered
  • Published by Routledge
  • UK Home Office Recognised
  • Freud Museum London Keynote
  • CPD Accredited
Our programmes

Training for the real challenges schools face

What is included

Everything your school needs

8 online modules
Structured learning staff can complete at their own pace.
CPD accredited
Recognised professional development for school staff.
Designed for schools
Created for teachers, SENCOs, pastoral teams and leaders.
Practical strategies
Tools staff can apply immediately in classrooms and pastoral settings.
Reflection-based learning
Helping staff think differently about behaviour and relationships.
Whole-school impact
Build consistency across teams, roles and settings.
Why schools choose BTP

Practical training, psychological depth

Understand Behaviour

Move beyond surface behaviour

Help staff understand what behaviour is communicating, rather than simply responding to what pupils do.

Intervene Earlier

Reduce escalation

Equip staff with the confidence to respond sooner and support pupils before difficulties become entrenched.

Strengthen Inclusion

Build better relationships

Create more consistent, psychologically informed practice across classrooms, pastoral teams and leadership.

Reduce Exclusions

Proven in practice

Support schools to strengthen relationships, improve outcomes and reduce suspensions and exclusions.

Inside the programme

Eight modules. One shared framework.

Fully interactive and completed at each member of staff’s own pace, the modules build a psychological understanding of what behaviour is communicating — why it escalates, what sits beneath it, and how staff can respond earlier and more effectively. Each module includes a workbook for action planning and implementation at your setting.

Module 1 -

Understanding Young People

Explore how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours connect, and how understanding a young person’s inner world transforms your interventions.

Module 2 -

Understanding Behaviour

Learn how behaviour often expresses deeper needs, and how curiosity helps uncover what’s truly happening for a young person.

Module 3 -

Communication

Understand how your words, tone, and body language influence young people’s trust and sense of safety.

Module 4 -

Boundaries

See how clear, consistent boundaries provide emotional safety and how to set them without damaging relationships.

Module 5 -

Endings

Discover how young people experience endings and transitions and how to support them through change.

Module 6 -

Self-Awareness in the Classroom

Observe how classroom energy and group dynamics affect young people emotionally, and how to respond effectively.

Module 7 -

You See and I See

Recognise that young people may see the same event differently—and how empathy and perspective-taking reduce conflict.

Module 8 -

Unconscious Processes

Explore how unconscious feelings and past experiences influence current behaviour and how to gently bring awareness to hidden patterns.

Programme

For Schools

Schools are under increasing pressure to improve attendance, strengthen inclusion and ensure behaviour policies are implemented consistently. Beyond The Present helps schools move beyond simply managing behaviour by giving staff the psychological understanding to recognise what behaviour is communicating and intervene earlier.

The programme is built on more than two decades of frontline therapeutic practice in schools. Alongside developing Beyond The Present, Daniel has worked directly with schools through Pause Reflect Progress (PRP), supporting pupils at risk of exclusion and those experiencing complex emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. Working alongside teachers, pastoral teams and school leaders in some of the most challenging educational settings has shaped the practical, evidence-informed strategies that underpin the programme today.

Beyond The Present translates that frontline expertise into CPD-accredited training, equipping teachers, SENCOs, pastoral teams and school leaders with practical strategies that strengthen relationships, build staff confidence and create more psychologically informed school communities.

Programme

For Multi-Academy Trusts

For Multi-Academy Trusts, Beyond The Present provides a scalable, trust-wide approach to professional development. Every school benefits from the same shared framework, language and evidence-informed practice, helping trust leaders improve consistency, support inclusion priorities and embed high-quality behaviour practice across all their schools.

A shared understanding of behaviour is one of the most powerful levers a trust has. When every teacher, SENCO, pastoral lead and headteacher across the trust is working from the same psychological framework, behaviour practice becomes consistent between schools, staff moving within the trust carry the same approach with them, and inclusion outcomes can be compared and improved trust-wide rather than school by school.

Trust-wide licences include unlimited staff access across all schools, whole-trust reporting to track engagement and completion at both school and trust level, and completion certificates for every participating member of staff—giving trust leaders clear evidence of CPD delivery to share with boards and inspectors.

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