The body of work
Built in practice first, and written up afterwards.
Five named frameworks, three working instruments, one living position and one free campaign. The earliest of it has been in use since 2015. None of it was designed at a desk.
The five named frameworks
The Freedom Approach
The pedagogy. The flagship.
A holistic educational pedagogy for disabled and neurodivergent children and young people and their families, and particularly for those who cannot attend school. Twenty five principles, from Acceptance and Emotional and Physical Safety through to Accessible and Holistic, and four key elements: assessment and planning, teaching and learning, collaboration, and implementation. Sixty five pages, in live use, with a book proposal of around sixty thousand words across twelve chapters behind it, and essay segments verified at Distinction level by Dr Luke Beardon and Professor Caroline Lear.
The Maisie Poppins Way
The early years pedagogy, also called the Maisie Poppins Ecosystem. Evidenced from 2015.
The way of working that grew out of a childminding setting graded Outstanding twice, and then a nursery and preschool of over thirty staff. It is backed by its own documents: the Holistic Ethos paper of December 2015, the curriculum, the self evaluation and the day guide. Everything since has been built on it.
The Early Years Ecosystem
The whole setting model. From March 2021.
Settings run as holistic communities where everyone thrives, across four layers: our environment, our people, our collaborators, and our curriculum and pedagogy. Staff wellbeing sits inside the model rather than beside it, through supervision, three hundred and sixty degree feedback, permanent contracts and the London Living Wage. Written up as a full book proposal with a chapter synopsis.
The Neurodictionary
The plain language guide. Published.
Around twenty four terms defined in a neuro-affirming way, from spoon theory and rejection sensitive dysphoria to monotropic and polytropic, elopement, internalised ableism, and the medical, social and biopsychosocial models. Illustrated. Written because no agreed definition of neuroinclusive practice exists anywhere in inspection.
MeMap
The profile, owned by the person it describes.
Interests, strengths, glimmers, bugbears and stress sparks. Eating and drinking across five pages. The seven senses, how they communicate, how they learn, and a seven stage rumble guide from basic needs through to recovery time. Fillable and illustrated, and a living document that can be changed at any time. Two strategy papers sit behind it, a SEND Assessment and Roadmap and a Strategic and Accessibility Framework, the second of which engages directly with the February 2026 Schools White Paper.
You are the owner of your MeMap. Anyone else involved is a collaborator.MeMap, page one
The working instruments
The HILP
Holistic Individual Learning Plan
Seven descriptors, goals in the person's own words for three months and for a year, and four dated check ins. Each check in carries three columns beside the prose box: where each goal is up to, how much help was needed, and whether the goal is still wanted. A fourth part records what the adults changed. It works with or without an EHCP, in a setting or out of one, and it pairs with MeMap. MeMap describes the person. The HILP tracks the goals.
The 6 Cs
A tool for great communication
Curate, connect, communicate, co-regulate, consistency, collaborate. Every one written in the first person from the neurodivergent person to the adult, which is the whole idea. It sits inside MeMap under How I communicate and works on its own as a staff room poster.
Discovery Meadow
The intake and assessment protocol
Built on MeMap for the LAMDA centre. A MeMap intake, then a relational first session with no testing in it at all, then three to four short testing sessions, with real time capture and defined data protection requirements. Designed, named and mapped.
The position and the campaign
Holding both
A living position. Disability is both the barriers society builds and the realities of impairment, illness, pain and high support needs. Held with humility, led by the people with the highest support needs, and open to challenge.
Read the positionToo Hot To Be Safe
The same argument applied to one real policy failure. Five asks on heat, schools and disabled people, with the free Keeping Cool, Staying You guides and a heat risk assessment tool a setting can actually complete. Free on purpose.
Read the campaignTraining
Two hundred and twenty nine pages of authored training, across six courses.
In depth staff training that counts towards your team's CPD. Grounding and embodiment exercises, a peer reflection activity, and adjustment guidance for nine neurotypes: autism, PDA, ADHD and VAST, Tourette's, acquired brain injury, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia.
Understanding Neurodivergence, full day
Six hours, in person. Fifty two pages.
Understanding Neurodivergence, full webinar
Four hours, online. Forty one pages.
Understanding Neurodivergence, half day
Three hours, in person. Thirty four pages.
Understanding Neurodivergence, introduction
Two hours, online. Twenty pages. A first look for a whole team, including the people who rarely get sent on training.
PDA Workshop
Forty four pages, delivered live. Pathological demand avoidance, also described as a pervasive drive for autonomy. School, screen, food, sleep, learning, transitions, mental health and self care. Reviewed at five stars by Resources for Autism.
Critical Reflections on Autism
Thirty eight pages, drawn from postgraduate work assessed at Distinction. For teams who want the theory as well as the practice.
Tworiffic Times
A holistic parenting course written and delivered free in Hackney in 2016, with written feedback collected from parents within forty eight hours of every session. Being revived as a neuro-affirming programme. The sessions are named as they always were.
Tuning in, not tuning out
Turning difficult behaviour around by responding to your child's message rather than reacting to their behaviour.
Taming transitions
Coaching your young child through the transitions that are coming whether anyone is ready or not.
Empathy building blocks
Helping your child identify feelings and build emotional resilience.
The swinging pendulum
The complexity of emerging independence, explored.
Becoming me
Introducing and exploring life for a two year old.
Fears and fantasies
Supporting developmental milestones through play.
Riding the wave of change
Sleep, toilet training and eating.
Policy and research
Where the work is heading next.
Education otherwise than at school
Written policy work and a landscape research report on a piece of ground with no named national owner, alongside a sellable template and parent guide.
The SEND Families Union
A membership collective so that families can pool support and act together, and no parent has to fight a council alone. A nine section roadmap exists.
The Holistic Learning Summary
A reporting format for young people learning outside school, in a form a local authority can use. A youth mentor version exists alongside it.
The EOTAS template and parent guide
Built and ready. A practical pack for families and settings arranging education otherwise than at school.
Stroud Valleys Children's Community
This one came out of what I saw working directly with children and families in these valleys. A place based model wrapping joined up support around children in the Nailsworth and Stroud area, built outside the statutory system rather than waiting for it to arrive. It comes with a funding idea attached: turn local wealth toward local children. The 2025 change to private school VAT and the loss of business rates relief is the moment to ask the private schools and the wealthy families in these valleys to fund the state schools next door. Two working documents exist.
Using any of it in your own setting
Licensing, plainly.
The frameworks and the documents behind them are protected by copyright and are the intellectual property of Yasmin A Darling Consultancy Ltd. If you would like to use one inside your own organisation, the answer is very often yes, and the arrangement is written down so that both of us know where we stand.
What is available, and on what terms, depends on what you are trying to do. A short conversation usually settles it faster than a price list would.