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Helen Dos Santos

Helen Dos Santos

Manage Your Mind - Manage Your Future - My business is to support yours by reducing mental health absence and related costs, and increase resilience and well-being in your workplace.

Helen's work provides empowering change and wellbeing through Neuroscience and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) helping individuals to upgrade their mental apps to truly serve them and get the best out of brains!

Helen offers Havening training in schools introduces staff to Havening Techniques — a gentle, psychosensory approach that helps children and adults reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm while boosting focus, resilience, and confidence.

Developed by Dr. Ronald Ruden, Havening uses simple, self-applied touch on the hands, arms, or face to generate calming delta brainwaves. Pupils benefit from calmer minds that retain information better, increased self-belief, and greater resilience under exam pressure, improved emotional regulation, reduce overwhelm and replace self-doubt with confidence.

In a two-hour session, educational staff learn the neuroscience behind the method, experience it first-hand, and explore practical uses with either primary or secondary pupils. Already praised by school leaders for its impact, this training empowers staff to support both their own wellbeing and that of their students, fostering a calmer, more resilient learning environment. The National Educational Magazine recently published an article about Helen's Havening work, please read it here havening-dps.pdf

Helen developed the Leaders in Education training programme offers a powerful blend of four interconnected modules designed to elevate leadership capability, communication skills, and emotional intelligence within educational settings, all backed with neuroscience. Developing a Coaching Management Style equips leaders with active listening, empathy, and questioning skills that empower staff, promote self-responsibility, and drive continuous improvement, whilst building a culture of psychology safety.

Through DiSC Profiling & Training, leaders gain deep insights into behavioural styles, learning how to adapt and connect more effectively with teaching staff and parents to foster collaboration and reduce misunderstanding often experienced in conversations. The Impact of Words – Mind Your Language module harnesses neuroscience to help participants choose words that inspire, motivate, and build a positive and empowering relationships.

Finally, Difficult Discussions to Courageous Conversations provides the tools and confidence to navigate sensitive topics with clarity, empathy, and a solution-focused mindset. Together, these modules build stronger relationships, enhance staff engagement, increase resilience, and foster a thriving, motivated educational community. These modules can be booked one at a time – dependant on the needs of the senior leadership team.

Testimonials from Teachers

"Staff speak very positively about their workload and well-being. They highly valued the recent training session about stress management and managing anxiety delivered by Helen Dos Santos which surpassed their expectations. Staff have thought of ways to support well-being, for example suggesting books to read for pleasure to colleagues and having weekly staffroom treats. Staff say leaders think about ways to minimise workload."

I can highly recommend Helen Dos Santos’ services on a one to one or whole team workshops"

– Zoe Cooper, Former Headteacher, St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy

"I just wanted to say thank you so much for the session on Positively Managing Worry, it was a real pleasure listening to you. To be honest, I didn't want to take an hour out of my day to listen to a course about not worrying, I am loving ploughing through my list of jobs during lock down. I see lock down as a gift, I've wanted the world to stop while I catch up for a while. However I realise that this will not last forever and that soon my exhausting lifestyle will be back and it will be full on.

I have come away with some great tips that I can use for myself, my teenage daughter (who is coming up to GCSE year) and for my family. So, many thanks, I really enjoyed it and feel like it has benefited me a lot."

– Emma Young, Teacher, St Dominic’s Catholic Primary

"Staff feedback from full Trust Inset Day.

  • Highly engaging, professional and very easy to listen too. Very relatable.
  • Really useful event to help evaluate the way you live and work and consider ways of reducing stress
  • She was funny and had good humour
  • Fantastic delivery – excellent knowledge and expertise with great anecdotes and humour.
  • Very well delivered and engaging throughout.
  • A really engaging, informative and helpful workshop"
– Ian Beardmore, Chief Executive Officer, Newman Catholic Academy Trust

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Location

Staffordshire

Topics

  • Well-being
  • Teacher CPD
  • Mental Health
  • Conference
  • Happiness

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