Consultancy
Salugen supports professional individuals and teams, working with early years and primary children, to build inclusive, trauma-informed, and wellbeing-centred, place-responsive practice through relational consultancy, training, and coaching.
What makes Salugen different?
“We don’t deliver programmes to teams, we walk alongside people as they embed sustainable change.”
- Specialist focus on ASN, trauma, neurodiversity, and understanding behaviour.
- Promoting wellbeing through being outdoors
- Works with teams to co-create solutions
- Values staff wellbeing as foundational, not secondary
- Bridges education, health and care perspectives

Face-to-Face Consultancy (Individual Settings)

Who it’s for...
- Nurseries
- Primary schools
- ASN provisions
- Family centres
- Parents and carers
Focus areas...
- Inclusive practice & ASN support
- Trauma-informed culture and practice
- Outdoor learning for regulation, inclusion & wellbeing
- Understanding and supporting behaviour
- Staff wellbeing, managing emotional load & avoiding physical burnout
- Early intervention and enabling potential

What it looks like...
- Observation of practice (indoors & outdoors)
- Professional dialogue and reflective feedback
- Collaborative, solution-focused assessment, planning and evaluation with staff
- Modelling inclusive and trauma-informed strategies
- Strategic and realistic next steps

Coaching for Individuals
Who...
- Head Teachers / Senior Leaders
- Principal Teachers / ASL Leads
- Teachers and early years practitioners
- Early Years Managers
- Play workers
- Outdoor Learning practitioners

Coaching focus...
- Leading inclusive, trauma-informed change
- Practical strategies to protect wellbeing at work
- Collaborative approaches to confident decision-making
- Building psychologically safe teams
- Translating values into daily practice

Format...
- 1:1 or paired coaching
- In-person or blended
- Fixed-term coaching packages (e.g. 6 or 10 sessions)

Team-Based Consultancy & Coaching
Best for...
- Whole-school improvement
- Early Years teams
- Support staff teams (PSAs, EYPs)
- Multi-agency teams

Themes...
- Shared understanding of trauma and neurodiversity
- Consistent relational approaches
- Observation and reflective practice skills
- Outdoor spaces as inclusive learning environments
- Developing a common language across the team

Methods...
- Facilitated reflective sessions
- Practice walkthroughs
- Outdoor-based team learning
- Case discussions grounded in lived experience

Consultancy Pathways
Inclusive Foundations Pathway
For settings on an inclusive journey
- Baseline consultation
- Staff reflection session
- Priority actions for inclusion & wellbeing
- Follow-up evaluation and next steps

Trauma-Informed Practice Pathway
For teams embedding TIP
- Practice observation
- Staff coaching & modelling
- Policy-to-practice alignment
- Priority actions for TIP & wellbeing
- Follow-up evaluation and next steps

Nature, Nurture & Resilience Pathway
For outdoor and wellbeing-focused development
- Outdoor environment audit
- Nature-based regulation strategies
- Staff confidence in outdoor inclusion
- Priority actions for outdoor practice
- Follow-up evaluation and next steps

Leadership & Wellbeing Pathway
For leaders under pressure
- Coaching
- Relational leadership support
- Staff wellbeing strategy development
- Priority actions for team wellbeing
- Follow-up evaluation and next steps

Values & Ways of Working
- Relational, not performative
- Strengths-based, not deficit-led
- Trauma-aware and neuro-affirming
- Place-responsive and outdoor-informed
- Sustainable, not quick-fix
- Ethically grounded and reflective
Evidence & Impact
- Professional confidence and consistency
- Improved staff wellbeing and retention
- More inclusive responses to behaviour
- Increased engagement for children with ASN
- Stronger use of outdoor spaces
- Shared language and practice across teams
