Peaceable Movement Mentoring
Build real connection with the young people who are hardest to settle, reach, and teach.
Peaceable Movement Mentoring uses non-contact boxing padwork to help young people regulate, connect and become ready to learn.
What is Movement Mentoring?
Movement Mentoring uses engaging, and endlessly popular, non-contact boxing padwork to help young people who are hard to reach — whether because of trauma, neurodiversity, learning needs or behavioural challenges.
When a young person is too dysregulated to settle and learn, we don't start by asking them to sit still. We start with movement.
How does it work?
Most calming methods ask a wound-up young person to settle down. For a lot of them, that backfires.
Movement mentoring works the other way. Instead of asking a young person to suppress what they're feeling, padwork gives that energy somewhere to go - into structured, satisfying movement they can do at their own pace, with no one to compare themselves to. They come out the other side calmer, more focused, and more in their bodies.
And those calm moments between rounds are where the real work happens. A settled young person can finally take in the things that are almost impossible to teach when they're dysregulated — how to read a room, handle conflict, spot when someone isn't being straight with them, and stop an impulse before it takes over.
The padwork settles them. The settled moments are where the learning lands.
Settle
Padwork channels energy into movement, so a young person regulates through doing rather than being told to stop.
Connect
The shared, side-by-side nature of padwork builds trust without demanding eye contact or talk.
Teach
In the calm between rounds, the social and emotional skills that usually come hard finally land.
Fifteen years and hundreds of young people tell us how effective this is. Now we want to give teachers and other sector workers the same skill.
Peaceable's Movement mentoring gives you a proven, practical method using padwork as your vehicle for settling young people through padwork, then teaching the social and emotional skills that usually come hard.
Our experienced team
Peaceable is led by Bee Wilson, who has spent fifteen years teaching padwork to young people with complex needs across mainstream schools, SEND units, and alternative provision. The work is shaped together with Kev Ayre — founder of two successful alternative provisions and a CIC trusted by local authorities, and a respected mentor for young people with the most complex needs.
Our Services - pick the appropriate choice for your setting
Learn the framework
Train to deliver movement mentoring yourself with the young people you already work with.
Most requested.
Bring us in
We deliver sessions for you in your school or setting.
In-setting delivery
Training for parents
A shorter, lower-cost course for parents to use at home with their own children.
Lower-cost
Partner with us
Would you like us to deliver for your organisation or local authority?
For partnering organisations
Testimonials
״Peaceable Padwork has made a huge difference to the lives of a number of our learners.״
Angela Tombs, Assistant Principal for Student Services
״I'd highly recommend Peaceable. The training they delivered to our team was excellent."
Headteacher Paul Norman
״Padwork has been transformative for our families and service users. We highly recommend it and the Peaceable team.״
Councillor and Charity Founder, Ian North
Get in Touch
For enquiries or to enrol in our programmes, feel free to reach out to us. We are here to assist you on your Movement Mentoring journey.