Building understanding. Strengthening relationships. Improving futures.
We are a women-led social enterprise working to improve outcomes for women and girls.
Our work brings together nervous-system understanding, evidence-informed practice and creative ways to learn.
Through programmes for primary school children, teen girls and women, and training for the adults around them, we support greater self-understanding, choice and healthier relationships.
Why We Begin Early
Learning to recognise our needs, respect difference and seek support begins in childhood.
These foundations matter throughout our lives.
Our work brings together early intervention with primary school children, dedicated programmes for girls and women, and training for the adults and organisations supporting them. Each strand contributes to our wider purpose: improving outcomes for women and girls, with greater safety, choice and opportunity.
Why We Begin With The Body
Tight shoulders, a racing heart or the urge to move away are all information. Developing an understanding of what this information means for each of us as unique individuals helps us to build self-awareness of our needs and how we can best have them met.
Our approach uses movement, breath awareness, sensory activities and creativity to explore these experiences, alongside simple explanations of how the nervous system responds to stress. This offers a practical starting point when words are difficult to find.
Notice. Understand. Choose. A small movement, a sensory adjustment, a boundary or someone’s support can become a possible next step.
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Grounded in Research & Delivered With Care
We draw on research-supported mind-body approaches and practices and bring them into accessible, creative programmes. Our trauma-informed practice makes choice, collaboration and sensitivity to individual experience part of how we work.
All of our programmes, courses and resources are living pieces of work and we continue to evaluate and refine as they develop with lived experience of who we support at the heart of everything we create.
Three connected strands
Early intervention & education
Body-based learning for primary school children, developing emotional understanding, respect, communication and practical skills for navigating change.
Targeted support for girls & women
Trauma-informed programmes exploring body signals, identity, self-worth, boundaries and relationships, with individual needs and choices at the centre.
Professional training & practice
Accessible, trauma-informed nervous-system education and practical learning that help adults understand their own responses and support others with greater awareness.
Find a Starting Point
Connect with Respect
Fully funded eight-week courses for girls aged 7–13 in Thanet. Body-based and creative activities connect feelings and self-understanding with friendships, voice and boundaries.
Family Transitions
School-based learning and CPD staff training that bring nervous-system understanding and practical tools to supporting children through family change.
Supported Wherever You Go
A free five-part audio course for women, with short body-based practices to explore at your own pace.
Understanding stress & trauma changes how we respond
Our training helps schools, services and organisations explore how stress, trauma and sensory demands can affect communication, relationships and participation.
Adults try practical approaches for themselves and consider how their own capacity, language and responses shape the support they offer. We look at what the person may need and what could change around them.
Community purpose. Practical ways to work together.
As a Community Interest Company, our work has a social purpose. Funding, paid training and commissioned projects help us develop our work and widen access to support.
Whether you are a parent, a school, a professional or a potential partner, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Our Community Project Partners & Professional Networks
Thank you to the National Lottery Community Fund for funding our Connect with Respect community programme in Thanet, and to Ramsgate Town Council for their support with core costs.
Thank you to SEK for your fabulous Thanet Social Enterprise Boost programme, development support and grant funding.
We are a member of The CPD Certification Service, which provides accreditation for our Family Transitions in-school training.
Proud to share our role as Kent Domestic Abuse Champions, following training with Kent & Medway Domestic Abuse Services.
Resolution membership links us with a trusted network of family justice professionals and child-focused best practice.
Our work may focus on girls but so vital to have completed training with Men at Work CIC. They support the healthy personal development of boys and young men, challenging sexism and fostering violence-free relationships and communities.
SHIFTwithin CIC Resource List
Have a look at our resource list to find confidential, independent support and helplines for domestic abuse, sexual violence, mental health, family & young person wellbeing. Access Kent-based and national services.
