The Motional Blog

Autism Acceptance Week 2023

Doesn’t there just seem to be a week for everything now!? This one’s important to us though as it really links to our core value of ensuring Motional is a tool that supports young people wherever they are: geographically; emotionally; culturally or in terms of neurodiversity. In fact, it’s more than that; we want to celebrate the fact Motional would not exist without our diverse and neurodiverse team!

What are adverse childhood experiences and how do they affect us?

It is well known that the experiences we have early on in our lives and particularly in childhood significantly impacts how we grow and develop, our physical, emotional and mental health, and in turn our thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

The importance of understanding emotional wellbeing within schools

Emotions are sometimes seen as the bull-in-the-china-shop of well-organised thinking, well-ordered classrooms, and a barrier to academic performance; it’s time to shift that paradigm. In fact, it’s more accurate for us to imagine those emotions as shelves in that china shop on which our most treasured porcelain sits