Trauma informed training and anxiety support for UK schools and residential care settings
Schools and Care
Across schools, colleges and children’s homes, staff are supporting young people who feel anxious, overwhelmed, shut down or constantly on alert. What looks like refusal, anger or lack of engagement is often a child trying to cope with fear, uncertainty or past experiences.
The STILL Method gives professionals a clear structure for understanding these responses and working in ways that build safety, predictability and trust. It replaces outdated behaviour focused systems with practices rooted in trauma awareness, anxiety science and emotional regulation.
Our training is for by educators, SEND teams, pastoral leads, social care professionals and residential care workers who want evidence informed, psychologically informed training that actually works in real settings.
The STILL Method, The STILL Model and STILL Skills for Life
These three parts work together to support schools and care settings at every level.
The STILL Method
This is the foundation.
The STILL Method explains how anxiety, overwhelm and trauma affect thinking, learning and behaviour.
It uses five practical steps — Stop, Talk, Imagine, Listen, Learn — that help adults and young people understand fear, reduce panic and reconnect with a sense of safety.
The method is used across education and care because it is simple, memorable and grounded in real experience.
Training for schools and care teams
As well as the STILL Model, many settings choose to build staff development through our standard STILL Method training courses. These include our anxiety focused work, therapeutic art training, emotional regulation programmes, sleep training and our grief and loss training for children and young people.
The STILL Model
This is the full organisational system used by schools and residential care settings that want consistent, whole team practice.
The STILL Model replaces behaviour focused systems such as PACE, Thrive and reward or consequence based policies. Instead, it provides a structured, trauma and anxiety informed framework that helps staff respond in ways that support regulation and long term emotional growth.
The STILL Model gives settings:
A consistent culture that reduces escalation
Shared language and routines so all staff respond safely
Leadership and staff pathways aligned with inspection standards
Clear tools that work across classrooms, corridors and care environments
Accreditation for settings that embed the model fully
For organisations ready to move beyond behaviour management and into emotional safety, the STILL Model is the complete system.
STILL Skills for Life
STILL Skills for Life brings emotional and social learning directly to young people.
It is used in schools, alternative provision, residential homes and by virtual schools.
Programmes include:
Emotional literacy and understanding feelings
Communication skills and confidence building
Anxiety management tools
Independence and future planning
Support for care experienced young people
The sessions are practical, hopeful and built to help young people imagine a life beyond anxiety.
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