
What if changing behaviour started with understanding what sits beneath it?
A powerful one-day live experience integrating Leadership influence, Business psychology, Neuroscience change work, NLP and embodied breakthrough processes.
Trusted by thousands for personal and professional transformation.
A powerful one-day live experience for the people shaping the lives, futures and outcomes of children and young people.
Created by professionals with decades of combined experience in behaviour change, children’s services, therapy and personal development.

A powerful one-day live experience integrating Leadership influence, Business psychology, Neuroscience change work, NLP and embodied breakthrough processes.
Trusted by thousands for personal and professional transformation.
Breakthrough helps you reset your identity, strengthen your self-leadership and create unstoppable momentum.
Led by 50+ years of combined expertise in psychology, coaching, leadership and human change.

Breakthrough is not another training day.
It is an immersive experience that challenges the beliefs, patterns and responses that influence how we work with young people.
You will experience powerful change interventions for yourself, gain a deeper understanding of what sits beneath behaviour and discover new ways to respond when the usual approaches are no longer enough.
You’ll leave with practical insights and interventions to take straight back into your work — helping you build stronger relationships, interrupt unhelpful patterns, support meaningful change and give young people a greater opportunity to thrive.
Because when we change what sits behind the behaviour, we change what becomes possible.
Understand the beliefs, patterns and emotional responses you bring into your work — particularly when behaviour challenges you.
Build greater self-awareness, emotional regulation and confidence so you can respond to what a young person needs, rather than simply reacting to what you see.
Because the person we bring into the room matters just as much as the intervention we use.
Working with children who have experienced trauma, disruption and adversity requires more than policies, procedures and behaviour-management strategies.
It requires adults who can remain curious under pressure, recognise what may sit beneath behaviour and understand their own responses too.
Breakthrough gives professionals an opportunity to experience that work themselves — and then consider how those insights can influence the way they support children and young people.”
The data and numbers show how real that pressure is.
So the question is not just Do you have the right strategy?
The real question is: Are you becoming the person who can execute it with clarity and conviction?
Your mindset shapes the decisions you make. Your emotional state shapes how you respond when pressure rises. Your identity forms what you believe is possible. Your standards shape what you tolerate, pursue and create.
When those internal foundations are unclear, even highly capable people get caught in patterns that quietly cost them their dreams.
Breakthrough is designed to help you strengthen the person behind the performance so you can lead your business, your message, your relationships and your life with greater influence
Take part in optional breakthrough processes designed to create meaningful personal change.
Challenge limiting beliefs. Interrupt old patterns. Experience what change can actually feel like from the inside.
Because experiencing an intervention yourself gives you a completely different understanding of its impact — and of what may become possible for the young people you support.
This is the work that creates the kind of breakthrough people remember for life.

Understand how your thinking, emotions and identity affect your business results.

Look beyond what a young person is doing to explore what may be driving it.

Understand how our own beliefs, patterns and emotional responses can influence our work.

Experience NLP, emotional regulation and guided change processes first-hand.

Explore how the learning can translate into stronger relationships and different responses with young people.
Patterns often develop because, at some point, they helped us feel safe, accepted, in control or protected.
The same is true for many of the young people we support.
What looks like challenging, avoidant or disruptive behaviour may have a belief, experience or protective pattern sitting underneath it.
At Breakthrough, you’ll explore the patterns that shape your own responses — particularly when you’re under pressure — before looking beyond behaviour to consider what may be driving the responses of the young people you work with.
You may recognise:

The Fixer: Feeling responsible for solving everything and finding it difficult to step back.
The Pleaser: Avoiding conflict, softening boundaries or carrying other people’s emotions.
The Protector: Staying guarded, needing control or finding vulnerability difficult.
The Avoider: Putting off difficult conversations, overthinking or withdrawing when things feel uncomfortable.
The Over-Worker: Giving everything to others while leaving very little emotional space for yourself.
This isn’t about judgement. It’s about recognising what may be running beneath the surface — in ourselves and in the young people we support. Because when we stop asking “How do we stop this behaviour?” and start asking “What is this behaviour trying to tell us?” we create the space for a very different response.

Gayle Lawerence

Anne-Sofi

Jay Gori


Your Breakthrough Day ticket includes:
A full-day live immersive experience
Human change and behaviour psychology
Neuroscience-informed change work
NLP-based tools and emotional regulation techniques
Practical principles, tools and approaches that can inform everyday practice.
A deeper understanding of limiting beliefs, patterns and what can sit beneath behaviour
Guided exercises to build self-awareness, confidence and emotional regulation
Optional, fully supported breakthrough experiences
Practical ways to translate what you experience into everyday practice
Connection with other professionals working across children’s homes and children’s services
Support from experienced facilitators with expertise in human change and children’s services

Registered Managers & RIs
Children’s home owners & senior leaders
Residential childcare professionals
Social workers & family-support professionals
Foster-care professionals
Therapists/practitioners working with children
Education/SEND professionals
Anyone responsible for improving outcomes for children and young people
This isn’t another training day.
It’s an opportunity to experience change for yourself, understand behaviour differently and leave with approaches that can create a ripple effect far beyond the room.

With more than 18 years’ experience across children’s services, Lucy brings together extensive sector experience and human behaviour-change work.
Her approach is built around a simple principle: we cannot fully understand behaviour if we only respond to what we can see.
Through Breakthrough, Lucy brings human-change principles into the children’s-services space. Helping professionals explore their own patterns while developing a deeper understanding of what may sit beneath the behaviour of the young people they support.

“Behind every behaviour is a belief. Change the belief, change the pattern. When we see past the behaviour, we unlock different outcomes for a child”
- Lucy Clifford

Date: 15th October 2026
Time: 9AM - 5PM (Approx)
Location: To Be Confirmed