BOUNCE Approach®
Practitioner Programme
Become a BOUNCE® Practitioner
Stop managing behaviour. Start reading it.
Behaviour management assumes choice. It assumes control. The children taking up most of your week can’t access any of that in the moment you need them to — because their behaviour isn’t a choice. It’s a nervous system under strain, communicating in the only language it has.
The BOUNCE® Practitioner Programme is how you learn to read what they’re communicating — and walk away with a working system to do something about it.
The BOUNCE Approach®
The BOUNCE Approach® isn't a set of strategies. It's a structured way of seeing.
Six interconnected foundations that build from the ground up – nervous system, attachment, sensory, emotions, connection, and self. Each layer supports the next. When one area becomes overwhelmed, unsupported, or out of balance, children often communicate it through behaviour, shutdown, avoidance, distress, or dysregulation.
When these foundations are understood and strengthened in sequence, children feel safer, connect more easily, regulate more effectively, and become more able to engage, learn, and thrive.
The BOUNCE Approach® helps adults recognise where support is needed most – and what needs to come first. Because emotional wellbeing develops from the bottom up, through safety, connection, and regulation.
Grounded in polyvagal-informed practice, attachment theory, sensory and interoceptive awareness, trauma-informed neurodevelopment, and neurodivergent-affirming practice – translated into practical tools, strategies, and interventions you can actually use on Monday morning.
Practitioner Programme
Know
The BOUNCE Approach® Practitioner Programme
Before you can support a child, you need to understand what is driving their behaviour. The Practitioner Programme builds your foundation across all six BOUNCE pillars — from the nervous system up.
Identify
Snapshots — See Exactly Where Each Child Needs Support
Use the BOUNCE Snapshot to build a clear picture of each child across all six pillars. In two minutes you have a baseline, an instant support plan and a starting point for every conversation — no referral, no diagnosis, no waiting.
Apply
Training, Resources & Planning from the Learning Portal
Your Snapshot tells you where to focus. Your membership gives you everything you need to act — targeted training, practical interventions, planning tools and printable resources, all mapped to the BOUNCE pillars.
Individual single-user licence. Free family accounts not included.
Evidence
Measurable, Meaningful Change
Re-run the Snapshot to show what has changed. Build a clear evidence trail of what was identified, what was put in place, and the difference it made — ready for reviews, EHCPs, ISPs and inspections.
Be Found
List Your Practice in the Child Therapy Service Directory
Your training and evidence speak for themselves. Now let families find you. The Child Therapy Service Directory connects parents, schools, and professionals with trusted, trauma-informed practitioners — and as a trained practitioner, your listing is just £10/year.
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“Really useful and I’m looking forward to introducing new practice based on this within our school for children with severe and complex needs.”
“This is a brilliant course. It has helped me so much with my job as an INA, but also as a parent and an autistic myself. There are many more courses I am going to do to help reinforce this and install what I have learnt here. Highly recommend this course!”
“This course is amazing. A plethora of knowledge. Thank you for such a wonderful work.”
Trusted Service
Supporting children across home, school and services — every day
★ Trusted by Local Authorities
Approved supplier to multiple UK local authorities, MATs, and organisations across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Including Lancashire, Leeds, South Ayrshire, Hampshire, and Bridgend
Already meeting standards for safeguarding, quality, and procurement – so you can move forward with confidence.
