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What you'll learn
Understand why traditional SMART targets can reinforce compliance, adult-led expectations and narrow measures of progress.
Explore the principles of ATTUNED Goal Setting as a relational, strengths-led and neurodiversity-affirming alternative.
Learn how to create meaningful goals rooted in a child’s identity, autonomy, communication and participation.
Apply ATTUNED thinking to individual plans, support strategies and everyday early childhood practice.
Meet the speaker
Ruth Jones
Speech and Language Therapist
Ruth is a speech and language therapist, working independently with specialist schools, neurodivergent children and their families. Ruth also offers supervision and training. Published ‘Neurodiversity Affirming Practice for Speech and Language Therapists’ in September 2025.
Kerry Murphy
Early Childhood Lecturer and Specialist in Neurodiversity-Informed Pedagogy
Kerry is an early childhood specialist with a specific focus on supporting children with lifelong developmental differences and disabilities. She is a lecturer, author and project lead for Diverse Pathways for Early Childhood and is currently completing her EdD at the University of Sheffield.
Be the first to access our Enhanced 2026–2027 ATTUNED Guidance
Attendees will receive access to our updated ATTUNED Goal Setting guidance for 2026–2027, featuring expanded explanations, practical prompts and examples to support more relational, strengths-led and neurodiversity-affirming planning. Please note: participants will also have the opportunity to sign up to our follow-up working group training where we re-work goals together.
What people are saying
These are just some of the lovely testimonials we received for our training!
A wonderful training session on ATTUNED Goal Setting with Ruth Jones and Kerry Murphy. I feel inspired and I learnt so much about the importance of reflection and the value of thinking about how best to support each individual child. Excellent practical resources and questions. The ATTUNED approach is necessary and so valuable for ensuring every child has the best quality of life and support. If you have a chance book in for training.
2026
The passion from both of you was amazing and filled me up with joy and hope! Your depth of knowledge was really clear and the session was practical as well as theoretical. I have big ideas to think about, as well as concrete tools to take away and use immediately.
2026
The training was so clear and so informative with a strong neuroaffirming focus throughout. I love how much knowledge was shared from both trainers from their own experiences and how they still gave open space for reflections and made it relatable to all disciplines, educational and therapeutic. The attuned goal setting training has certainly informed my future practise.
2026
The trainers Kerry and Ruth were outstanding in their presentation regarding their knowledge, information shared and explanations of its content. There’s a necessity for more specialists like them advocating for our children and their futures. Passion is addictive, thank you so much for everything you’re doing to support children - and educators - in meeting their needs.
2026
Ready to rethink goal setting?
Move beyond rigid, compliance-led SMART targets and discover a more relational, strengths-led approach. Learn how to create ATTUNED goals rooted in children’s identities, autonomy, communication, participation and flourishing. Your £30 access includes the session and our enhanced ATTUNED Goal Setting Guidance for 2026–2027, with practical prompts and examples to support your everyday planning.
£30.00