Student Reset Workshop
A practical session introducing stress, the nervous system, breath awareness, movement and simple reset tools students can use before exams, presentations, performances or difficult moments.
Students do not need more information. They need tools they can use under pressure.
Our sessions translate nervous system education into lived experience. Teenagers learn how to notice activation, slow down, move energy, breathe with intention and come back into connection without needing to talk publicly about personal material.
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Practical self-regulation for exams, transitions, anxiety and everyday overwhelm.
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Music-led embodied learning that keeps students engaged without forcing disclosure.
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Group experiences designed to build confidence, belonging and emotional resilience.
Secondary-school formats for different wellbeing needs.
Sessions can be adapted for transition years, sixth form, exam-year support, student retreats, wellbeing weeks, international schools, staff development days and teacher CPD.
Headset Breathwork Experience
A larger immersive format using silent-disco headsets, guided breath, music and reflection. Memorable, structured and highly engaging for retreats, wellbeing weeks and senior assemblies.
Staff & Pastoral Team Session
A restorative nervous system reset for teachers, tutors and pastoral teams, supporting decompression, connection and sustainable emotional energy in demanding school environments.
Teacher Training & CPD Upskilling
Practical training for teachers, wellbeing leads and pastoral teams in safe, simple breathwork and nervous system tools they can use in classrooms, tutor time, wellbeing programmes and exam season.
Teacher training and CPD
Upskill your staff with practical regulation tools they can actually use.
This option is designed for schools that want more than a once-off wellbeing day. We train teachers to understand stress through a simple nervous-system lens and give them short, safe practices they can bring into real school moments: before exams, after conflict, during tutor time, in pastoral support, or when a class needs to settle.
The focus is not turning teachers into therapists. It is giving staff a clear, age-appropriate toolkit for regulation, confidence and emotional resilience inside the normal rhythm of school life.
What staff learn
- How stress and activation show up in the body and classroom
- Simple breathwork tools for grounding, focus and state-shifting
- How to introduce practices safely without forcing disclosure
- Ways to support exam years, transitions, wellbeing weeks and pastoral care
- Clear boundaries: education and self-regulation, not therapy
A wellbeing experience students actually want to attend.
Phoenix sits between a workshop, a music experience and an emotional resilience training. The tone is mature, practical and engaging enough for teenagers who can smell a dull wellbeing talk from a mile away.
Exam years and pressure points
- Stress, overwhelm and nervous system regulation
- Tools for exams, interviews, presentations and performances
- Short practices students can use privately when pressure rises
Retreats, TY and sixth form
- Identity, confidence, belonging and emotional regulation
- Music-led breathwork with clear opt-in choices
- Reflection on resilience, self-leadership and connection
Staff development and CPD days
- Teacher wellbeing and nervous system literacy
- Classroom-ready breath tools for grounding and focus
- Shared language for pastoral teams, tutors and wellbeing leads
Whole-school wellbeing programmes
- Student workshops plus staff upskilling
- Support around exam season, transitions and wellbeing weeks
- Options for assemblies, year-group sessions and parent evenings
Phoenix brings the scale and energy of an immersive wellbeing event into the structure and care schools need.
Led by experienced educators and facilitators.
Phoenix Breathwork was founded by James McCauley, a PGCE-qualified educator and international breathwork facilitator whose background spans international school teaching, youth development, summer camps, yoga, social circus and large-scale group wellbeing experiences.
His academic work explored international development, education and social capital through social circus, giving Phoenix a rare blend of educational grounding, embodied facilitation and group engagement.
Safe, structured and adapted to your school context.
Sessions are trauma-aware, opt-in and designed around practical self-regulation. Students are never asked to disclose personal material, and all practices can be adjusted for year group, group size, school culture and safeguarding requirements.
Built for school settings
We can work alongside safeguarding teams, wellbeing leads, TY coordinators, house systems and student support staff to shape the right format for secondary students.
Bring Phoenix Breathwork to your school.
Tell us your year group, number of students, preferred dates and whether you are planning a wellbeing week, TY retreat, sixth form session, exam support session, staff day, teacher CPD training or larger immersive experience.
Enquire for your school
Best for
Secondary schools, colleges and international programmes
Group size
Senior classes to full year groups
Locations
Ireland, UK, Europe and international schools
Format
Student workshops, staff sessions, headset experiences and teacher CPD