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The BOUNCE Approach® Lens

Behaviour is communication.Understand first. Then support.

We turn evidence-based models into practical tools you can use today. See what may be underneath, act the same day, and know within weeks what is helping.

B O U N C E
Child Therapy Service in practice
  • 2 minutes per SnapshotKnow where to start, for one child or young person or a whole group
  • Use it the same dayPractical tools, with nothing to laminate or prepare
  • Review at 4–6 weeksWhile there is still time to change the support

Trusted by settings across the UK

1,000s

People trained

831

Reviews

100s

Case studies

25+

Years of practice

Approved supplier to local authorities and trusts

  • Lancashire
  • Leeds
  • South Ayrshire
  • Hampshire
  • Bridgend
  • and across the UK

Research partnership with Leeds Beckett University

A whole-child framework

What is The BOUNCE Approach®?

A developmental lens for seeing behaviour differently. When the need underneath is met, things can change.

BOUNCE® brings together well-established research from six disciplines, usually taught separately, into one practical framework.

Each level rests on the one below

  • Body first. You cannot reason with a child whose body does not feel safe, or build identity before connection.
  • Meet the need, and more becomes reachable. When a need is met, what sits above it comes within reach.
  • Returned to again and again. Body and the Nervous System is the ground the other five stand on.

“What does this child need right now?”

The question the framework exists to answer

Free to start. No account needed.

Select a pillar to find out more

Everything rests on the base

Pillar 1 · Foundation

Body and the Nervous System

ResearchPolyvagal Theory

How the nervous system senses safety and threat. The foundation everything else rests on.

Pillar 2

Openness and Trust

ResearchAttachment Theory

How relationships build trust, co-regulation and safety.

Pillar 3

Understanding Sensory Differences

ResearchSensory Integration and Interoception

How each child or young person experiences their body and the world around them.

Pillar 4

Navigating Emotions

ResearchTrauma-Informed and Neurosequential Models

Recognising, expressing and making sense of emotions, in developmental order.

Pillar 5

Connection and Communication

ResearchCommunication Science

Behaviour, language and interaction as communication, and a way to connect.

Pillar 6

Esteem and Identity

ResearchIdentity and Reflective Practice

Self-awareness, belonging and a positive sense of self.

Established researchThe BOUNCE Approach®Tools you can use today

We don’t replace the models the research comes from. We make them usable on a Monday morning.

What you get

One portal. Everything connected.

One framework, from need to support to review.

Know where to start

Snapshots

2-minute Snapshots showing strengths, needs and priorities.

See Snapshots

Hear their voice

The Professional Studio

Interactive tools to use side by side. Nothing to laminate.

Explore the Studio

EHCP and SEND tools

With or without an EHCP.

Support can start when it’s needed most.

  • With an EHCPMatch Section F to resources, then set short-term targets.
  • SEND RegisterStart from the Snapshot, create a provision map, and set I can… targets.
Explore the EHCP and SEND tools

Thinking about a nurture room, inclusion base or EBSA pathway? Book a free 30-minute consultation

With an EHCP, the EHCP Provision Planner and the Short-term Target Generator lead into Provision Mapping. On the SEND Register, a Snapshot and the I Can… Target Tool lead into the same plan.

Emotional literacy

ELSA tools

Six ready-made LEGO®-inspired lessons. Each one is a complete emotional literacy session, with the Studio tools built in.

See the emotional literacy programme

Develop practice

65 CPD courses

Around 127 hours of CPD, planned across your year in your own CPD Pathway.

See the training

Lead a team

CPD and leadership toolsNew

Plan who does what training, and when, across your team.

See the CPD tools
“I feel ready to tackle the preparation and to start delivering the intervention at school now. Having all these resources available on the learning portal will be so helpful!”
Jennifer CampbellRunning Lego-based Therapy Sessions · 2 September 2026

No big data system.No extra cost.

  • No personal data stored
  • A PDF for your own records
  • Works with your systems

I am a…

See what needs attention first. Review before the term is over.

Two-minute Snapshots organise what staff are already noticing. The EHCP and SEND tools turn Section F and your SEND register into one provision map, with I can… targets you can review at 4–6 weeks.

With or without an EHCP, support can start when it’s needed most.

Explore the EHCP and SEND tools
EHCP Provision PlannerThe EHCP Provision Planner, grouping Section F provision into strands

Some things are easier to show than to say.

The Professional Studio gives children and young people creative ways to show what is happening inside. Choose a tool, read the guide, and work through it together on screen. They lead. You stay curious.

18 tools and growing, each with a guide for the adult.

Explore the Professional Studio

See the PSHE Learning Journeys that use it

Hear their voice, side by side.

Run emotional literacy sessions built around LEGO®, then use the Studio’s interactive tools to work through feelings on screen with a child or young person. They can create, choose and show how they are feeling in more than one way.

Connection before correction. Nothing to laminate, nothing to prepare.

See the Emotional Literacy Programme

Explore the Studio’s interactive tools

My Body Scan: what do I notice in my body? Breathe: follow the bricks round the shape and breathe along My Inner Team: choosing what each part looks like Regulation: where am I, pick my tools, try them out The Magic Tree: which brick person feels like me today? My Window: building a brick window of feelings Superpowers: kindness, courage, listening and being funny A Get Curious slide from The Growth Zone
The Just Right Zone session in the Studio: watch, start, explore and finish

One session, start to finish

The Just Right ZoneFinding my starting point.

  1. Start
    • 1My Battery
  2. Explore
    • 6The Scale
  3. Finish
    • A calm close

Plan who does what training, and when.

Choose the training your team needs, decide who completes each course and when, then give each person their own plan. Everything they complete builds their CPD Evidence Portfolio.

Plus the Team Leader Dashboard, from £36 a licence.

See the team tools
Team CPD PlannerA team CPD plan showing who completes each course and when

One shared framework across settings.

Multi-setting licences for advisers and services working across settings. Everyone uses the same language, the same Snapshots and the same route from need to support to review.

Evidence of what changed, setting by setting.

See multi-setting pricing
Provision MappingA provision map setting out what is in place and what may need to change

Make sense of what you are seeing at home.

Family coaching helps you understand what may be underneath your child or young person’s behaviour, and leave with something practical to try at home. You don’t have to work it out on your own.

You know your child or young person best. Coaching helps you find what to try next.

Find out about family coaching
Family coaching

Also used by early years practitioners, college SEND teams, alternative provision staff, family support workers and educational psychologists.

“Fantastic course with lots of invaluable information. It is broken down into a way that will support understanding of needs and implementation of support. I would definitely recommend it.”
Davinia CooperAn Introduction to The BOUNCE Approach® · 8 June 2026
The impact

What changed was not the child. It was the adults’ understanding.

Case study

Year 4 · mainstream primary · Engagement

More time in class, fewer adult interventions

  1. What the Snapshot showedOverload, not avoidance.
  2. What adults changedThey broke tasks into steps and added movement.
  3. What movedMore time in class, and fewer adult interventions.
Read the case studies
See what changedA Snapshot progress and review report comparing before and after

Primary aged · Wellbeing

Attendance up, fewer medical room visits. The Snapshot pointed to anxiety. Adults added predictable routines and daily check-ins.

★★★★★

We started with a single subscription but quickly realised how beneficial it would be for many of our teachers and classes, and therefore now have the school subscription.

HA
Heidi AlexanderDeputy Head · John Grant School

★★★★★

The resources have been embedded into our whole school mental health approach and the emotional regulation tools embedded into our behaviour for learning policy.

DS
Debbie StonerPastoral Lead · Primary School

★★★★★

Services like CTS are SO important in equipping us as professionals with a range of ideas and knowledge to support children and families who feel lost or in the dark.

CS
Dr Claire StubbsCounselling Psychologist
Membership

One login. Everything above.

Pay by card or invoice.

One professional

Professional Membership

£319a year

or £39.99 a month

See what’s included
Most settings choose this

Whole team · 3 to 50

Team Membership

From£36a licence

Plus the Team Leader Dashboard

See team pricing

Services and trusts

Multi-setting licences

From£499a year

For advisers working across settings

See pricing

See how it works in practice

Try a Snapshot, explore the tools and see how the parts connect before you decide what you need.

See it for yourself. Look around the whole portal.

Pricing Explore the portal
ResourcesMonthlyAnnual
🧘 Somatic Toolkit✔
🪟 Window of Tolerance Activity Pack✔
🧩 Managing Demand Avoidance Toolkit✔
⛏️ Minecraft Belief Systems✔
🧱 LEGO® Belief Systems✔
🧱 Therapeutic LEGO® Pack✔
😀 Emoji Body Map✔✔
🧠 Creating a Neuroprofile✔✔
🧍 Physical Body Scan✔✔
🗓️ Visual Timetable (Home Use)✔✔
📊 SEMH Assessment Trackers✔✔
📖 Metaphorical Stories✔✔
🧠 Sensory Profile Assessment✔✔
🗣️ Pupil Voice Tools✔✔
🗺️ Body Mapping✔✔
🛠️ Restore, Repair & Prevent Toolkit✔✔
🧩 “A Part of Me Feels” Resource✔✔
🎨 Window of Tolerance Fun Pack✔✔
📈 Assessment Trackers✔✔
📉 SUD Scale✔✔
📝 Support Plan Pack✔✔
😊😟 Positive & Negative Affect Schedule✔✔
📎 BOUNCE Strips and Fans✔✔
🧠 BOUNCE + Window of Tolerance Pack✔✔
🧱 Positive Posters – LEGO® Style✔✔
🤝 Self- and Co-Regulation Posters✔✔
🏫 Classroom Bumper Display Pack✔✔
🌈 Sensory Differences Activity Pack✔✔
👾 Mood Monsters Classroom Pack✔✔
⚙️ Executive Function Pack✔✔

EVERY resource on the website is included, such as:

🧘 Somatic Toolkit
😀 Emoji Body Map
🧍 Physical Body Scan
🧱 Therapeutic LEGO® Pack
🗓️ Visual Timetable (Home Use)
📊 SEMH Assessment Tracker
📖 Metaphorical Stories
🧠 Sensory Profile Assessment
🗣️ Pupil Voice Tools
🪟 Window of Tolerance
🧩 Managing Demand Avoidance Toolkit
🗺️ Body Mapping
🛠️ Restore, Repair & Prevent Toolkit
🧩 “A Part of Me Feels” Resource
🎨 Window of Tolerance Fun Pack
📈 Assessment Tracker
📉 SUD Scale
📝 Support Plan Pack
😊😟 Positive & Negative Affect Schedule
📎 Strips and Fans
🧠 BOUNCE + Window of Tolerance Pack
🧱 Positive Posters – LEGO® Style
🤝 Self- and Co-Regulation Posters
🏫 Classroom Bumper Display Pack
🌈 Sensory Differences
👾 Mood Monsters Classroom Pack
⚙️ Executive Function Pack
🧠 Creating a Neuroprofile
⛏️ Minecraft Belief Systems
🧱 LEGO® Belief Systems

Licence: Whole-setting use

Team Membership

  • Best for: Whole schools, nurseries, colleges, or service teams (e.g. NHS, local authorities, care settings)

Each month you’ll get an EXTRA:

✅ A professional resource

🎥 A walkthrough video

🎓 A CPD professional webinar

Licence: Whole-setting use

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