Free guide: Autonomic States, Felt Safety and Regulation.
Download the free guideLearn the language of the nervous system, during and after neonatal care
A training programme that brings together neuroscience, nervous system regulation and the lived experience of neonatal care, for those who support neonatal families.
Everyone who steps into neonatal care has an autonomic nervous system. Now you can learn its language, and deepen the care you give.
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Aligned with WHO, NICE, BAPM, GFCNI, the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and the Family Integrated Care Framework.
Designed from the ground up
Not general nervous system training adapted to neonatal care, but designed for it from the ground up.
Translated for the unit
Matrescence, the autonomic nervous system, allostatic load, the gut brain axis and more, translated into the neonatal landscape.
Steady yourself first
Learn to read and steady your own nervous system, and find practical ways to build felt safety and connection.
Taught alongside leading voices in neuroscience, neonatal and nervous system work
You will learn directly from a faculty whose work shapes how we understand the nervous system, neonatal care and trauma, and who bring lived experience of being in neonatal care themselves.
A neuroscientist, doula and NICU mother whose work explores how nurturing care shapes developing infant and parental brains.
A physiotherapist and vagus nerve educator, and author of The Nervous System Reset, who brings the science of regulation to everyday practice.
A clinical psychologist, trauma specialist and NICU parent, supporting families through birth trauma and perinatal mental health.
Has led more than £1m of mental health service delivery for neonatal families in the North East. Currently studying an MSc in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health at King's College London.
Lived experience, and the science to match.
Lottie King is the founder of NICU Neuroscience and Leo's. She has spent the last eight years overseeing neonatal, baby loss and BAME perinatal services in some of the most deprived parts of the North East, has led more than £1 million of service delivery, and has delivered measurable reductions in anxiety, depression, birth trauma and PTSD.
Her pandemic work earned a Prime Minister's Points of Light award. Lottie has lived both loss and life in the NICU through her experience of having a surviving twin. She is currently studying an MSc in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health at King's College London.
The Nervous System States Guide
Underpinned by neuroscience and lived experience, with real examples of interactions on the unit and in the community. Readable in under 15 minutes, with practical tools to help you shift your questioning to: what does the nervous system need right now for safety?
Download the free guideWhen you train with us, you fund the work
Every penny from this course goes back into frontline service delivery at Leo's, our charity supporting neonatal, baby loss and BAME perinatal families across some of the most deprived areas of the North East of England.
In their words
From training participants
It wasn't all my fault.
It's the first time anyone has ever explained why I said yes to everything on the NICU without question.
Fantastic, science-led understanding from Lottie, who has lived our situation.
It was wonderful to learn about the underlying biology that supports my day to day work, and to put words on what I feel instinctively.
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