Speaking, writing & media
I speak, write, and contribute to media on equitable education, neuroinclusion, SEND rights, intersectionality, and the systemic change needed to make all three real.
Whether I am on a conference stage, a podcast, or the page of a white paper, I bring the same thing. Three decades of direct work, clinical training, and a changemaker’s eye for what systems could look like if they were truly designed for the people inside them. My voice is warm, funny, and honest.
Speaking
I am available for keynotes, conference talks, panels, fireside conversations, and all-staff events. Notable platforms include:
- The Parliamentary Review
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- PDA Society national events
- Sector conferences on SEND, early years, and neuroinclusion
Themes I speak on
My keynotes draw on a breadth of themes and are always informed by lived experience. Audiences can expect warmth, humour, honesty, and a directness that still leaves room for hope. Recurring themes include:
- The Freedom Approach™, my current pedagogy for equitable education and neuroinclusion
- The Maisie Poppins Way™, my early years pedagogy
- Rights-based neuroinclusion, and why compliance is only the beginning
- Children’s rights and participation in UK local authority practice
- Community building, regeneration, and the real cost of gentrification
- Youth violence, youth voice, and participatory approaches to policy
- Health equity from lived and practitioner perspectives
- Intersectional and decolonised approaches to neuroinclusion and SEND
- The intersection of disability, race, gender, and neurodivergence in education
- PDA, what schools and organisations actually need to know
- Early years neuroinclusion and the holistic ecosystem approach
- Navigating the SEND system: EHCPs, EOTAS, and the rights parents don’t always know they have
- Psychodynamic perspectives on neurodivergence
- Being a mixed race, disabled, neurodivergent woman in the UK education system
I am happy to tailor keynotes, or to explore new themes that sit within my broader work as a changemaker, with the audience and context in mind.
Writing
I write articles, blogs, features, and policy pieces for sector and mainstream audiences. My work has been published with FAMLY, PACEY, and FORWARD, and I have been featured in BBC News and Made for Mums, among others. My writing spans early years practice, holistic education, SEND rights, neurodiversity, and women’s health, and tends to sit where policy, lived experience, and practical wisdom meet.
I take on a small number of commissioned writing projects each year, including longer-form work and book projects. If you are a publisher, editor, or organisation with a brief that fits my work, please get in touch.
Media
I contribute to podcasts, interviews, and broadcast media on SEND, neurodivergence, disability rights, children’s rights, intersectionality, and broader questions of identity and belonging. I am currently featured in Growing Up Queer, the Channel 4 documentary series produced by Burning Bright Productions. Press and media enquiries are warmly welcomed. Please email yasmin@yasminadarling.com.