Be the Steady Adult
Connection without losing boundaries, adult responses, repair, consistency and relational safety.
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Supporting the adults who support children.
Practical professional learning about behaviour, relationships, boundaries, emotional needs and becoming the steady adult when children are struggling.
Enquire about speaking & trainingChildren bring far more than curriculum needs through the school gates.
Vikki Dercksen brings more than 25 years of experience across teaching and school leadership to practical conversations about environments where children feel safe, understood and appropriately challenged—without lowering expectations or removing necessary boundaries.
Speaking & training
Professional learning that starts with the adults.
Not a generic behaviour-management consultancy: this is support for adults to become steadier without asking them to become permissive.
Behaviour & Relationships
What behaviour may communicate, maintaining expectations and creating consistency between adults.
Supporting Complex Needs
Environment, communication, predictability, reasonable adjustment, relationships and adult responses.
Possible formatsKeynotesINSETTwilight sessionsWorkshopsLeadership sessionsTeam development
Let’s talk about what your staff need.
Every school context is different.
Tell Vikki what would be most useful for your team. This draft form shows the information the final enquiry journey will collect.