Many educators are now recognising how significantalternative ways of thinking in the classroom are foroptimising engagement and learning. Louise exploreshow to facilitate quality moments of relationship withchildren and young people that genuinely reach them,where they are, recognising the impact of trauma ontheir emotional state, mental functioning and ability, orlack of it, to trust the adults. She helps identify thebest way to work in practical terms so that we can teach curriculum aswell as healthy behaviours. Honouring biology by building on Perry's (2006) neuro-developmental sequence, Louise provides numerouscreative ways of being and doing for those wanting toensure school is as inclusive as it can be.