Understanding Stress & Behaviours of Concern

This full-day practitioner workshop explores how cumulative stress, sensory overload and nervous-system dysregulation drive behaviours of concern. We look beyond single incidents to understand how individual stress, supporter stress, burnout and organisational pressure interact to increase risk and impair safe, compassionate responding. Through clear theory, video case examples and practice-based exercises, participants learn how to spot early signs of escalation, reduce environmental and relational stressors, and apply Low Arousal techniques that keep people safer and preserve quality of life.

Why this workshop matters

Behaviours of concern are too often written off as deliberate defiance, when they are more commonly the body’s response to cumulative stress, sensory overload and nervous-system dysregulation.

This workshop reframes behaviour as communication: not a problem to be punished, but a signal to be understood. Low Arousal is not passivity; it is a purposeful, evidence-based approach that reduces internal and external stressors, prevents escalation and protects people’s…