For Education

I spent over a decade working in youth work and secondary education. I’ve sat with young people navigating systems that weren’t designed for them, and I’ve watched how the unspoken story a school tells about itself — ‘we’re a difficult school,’ ‘these are challenging kids’ — becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that affects every person inside the building.

I’ve also watched what happens when those stories start to shift.

The myths and stories we hand young people — about gender, about success, about who gets to have a voice — are largely outdated. They were written for a society that no longer exists, and they’re not equipping young people for the one we’re in.

Change the Script in Education is a dedicated strand of work for schools, colleges, and education settings that want to do something about that. It’s in development and I’m building it carefully.

What it will include

• Staff wellbeing and voice workshops for teaching and support staff

• Institutional narrative work — helping schools examine and rewrite the story they tell about themselves

• PSHE-aligned storytelling sessions for young people

• Specialist support for settings working with neurodivergent students