Looking Beyond Behaviour, Blame & Crisis Toward Understanding, Connection & Prevention
LET’S PROTECT OUR CHILDREN BEFORE THE CRISIS
A Complimentary Workshop on Child & Adolescent Mental Wellbeing for Parents, Educators, School Leaders & Professionals Working with Children and Adolescents
Looking Beyond Behaviour, Blame & Crisis Toward Understanding, Connection & Prevention
LET’S PROTECT OUR CHILDREN BEFORE THE CRISIS.
A Complimentary Workshop on Child & Adolescent Mental Wellbeing for Parents, Educators, School Leaders & Professionals Working with Children and Adolescents
Looking Beyond Behaviour, Blame & Crisis Toward Understanding, Connection & Prevention
LET’S PROTECT OUR CHILDREN BEFORE THE CRISIS.
A Complimentary Workshop on Child & Adolescent Mental Wellbeing for Parents, Educators, School Leaders & Professionals Working with Children and Adolescents
There are moments that shake a community.
The recent school shooting tragedy, together with a series of deeply concerning gun-related incidents involving young people across Thailand in recent years, has once again shaken our collective sense of safety.
There is grief. There is fear. There is anxiety. And understandably, there are difficult questions being asked by parents, educators, school leaders, professionals, and communities across the country.
At Ignite Relationships Studio, our work is dedicated to human connection, relationships, and the emotional and mental well-being of children, adolescents, adults, and families.
As a centre working closely with young people, parents, educators, and families, we feel a profound responsibility to contribute what we can at this moment.
When a tragedy like this happens, our attention naturally turns to what went wrong, and who is responsible?
But perhaps there are equally important questions we need to be asking:
- What are we missing?
- What might be happening beneath the behaviours we see?
- What are children and adolescents carrying that the adults around them may not always recognize?
- What is happening within their developing brains, nervous systems, relationships, families, schools, peer groups, and digital worlds?
And perhaps most importantly:
What can we do before a child reaches a point of crisis?
There is no single explanation for an act of violence, and it would be irresponsible to reduce complex human behaviour to one child, one family, one school, one diagnosis, or one social issue.
Prevention asks us to look wider.
It asks us to understand the whole developmental ecosystem surrounding a young person.
For this reason, we are opening this series of workshops free of charge as a community service for parents, educators, school leaders, mental health professionals, and others entrusted with the care and development of young people.
This is not a conversation about blame.
It is a conversation about understanding what we need to see earlier, what we need to understand better, and what we can begin doing differently – together.
What We Will Be Talking About
What Is Really Happening Within Our Children?
What If the Behaviour Is Not the Problem?
Would We Know If a Child Was Not Okay?
What Happens When a Young Person Feels They Don’t Belong?
When Should We Be Concerned - and What Do We Do Next?
A Message from the Lead Facilitator
Who Is This For?
- ✓ Parents and Caregivers
- ✓ Teachers and Educators
- ✓ School Leaders and Administrators
- ✓ School Counsellors, Pastoral-care and Student-support Teams
- ✓ Child and Adolescent Development Professionals
- ✓ Mental Health Professionals
- ✓ Coaches Working with Children, Adolescents, Parents, and Families
- ✓ Learning-support Professionals
- ✓ Other Child- and Family-serving Professionals
This is an Interactive Hands-on Workshop
Front Building, 3rd Floor
Habito Mall, Sukhumvit 77, Bangkok
Meet the Director for Child/ Adolescent Development and Parenting Interventions
Lux Hettiyadura
Lux Hettiyadura is a Child & Family Development Specialist, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Coach Educator, and Program Director at Ignite Global, with over 15 years of experience working across child development, parenting, education, and family well-being. Her work bridges developmental psychology, attachment science, neuroscience, nervous system regulation, education, and mind-body approaches to understand the developing child within the wider relational and environmental systems that shape them.
Lux holds a BA in Early Childhood Education, a Higher Diploma in Montessori Education through Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), and an Advanced Certification in Children’s Mental Health and Behaviour from Stanford Medicine. She is currently completing her Master’s in Counselling Psychology. Her multidisciplinary training also includes a Postgraduate Diploma in Ayurveda Philosophy, alongside professional training in yoga, yoga philosophy, yoga psychology, trauma-informed practice, and nervous system regulation.
As an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and coach educator, Lux is the creator and Program Director of the ICF-accredited Child & Adolescent Development and Parenting (CADP) Coach Education Specialization—a comprehensive professional pathway integrating coaching with the science of human development.
At the heart of Lux’s approach is a fundamental principle: children are not problems to be fixed; they are developing human beings shaped by the environments, relationships, and experiences surrounding them.
Rather than addressing behaviour in isolation, her work looks at the whole developmental ecosystem—the child’s developing brain and nervous system, attachment relationships, family dynamics, emotional and relational environments, education, and wider social influences.
Her philosophy is rooted in the belief that every child carries extraordinary developmental potential. When the adults and systems surrounding children understand development more deeply and create the conditions for safety, connection, regulation, and healthy autonomy, children are better able to grow into secure, capable, emotionally intelligent human beings.
Through her work with parents, professionals, educators, and coaches, Lux is committed to creating developmentally informed, relationally healthy environments in which both children and the adults raising them can thrive.
Read More About LuxProgram Director & Lead Facilitator
Lux Hettiyadura
Lux Hettiyadura is a Child & Family Development Specialist, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Coach Educator, and Program Director at Ignite Global, with over 15 years of experience working across child development, parenting, education, and family well-being.
Her work bridges developmental psychology, attachment science, neuroscience, nervous system regulation, education, and mind-body approaches to understand the developing child within the wider relational and environmental systems that shape them.
Expert Team
Program Facilitators
Fernando Hettiyadura
Registered Eclectic Psychotherapist | ICF MCCFernando Hettiyadura is a pioneer in the fields of professional coaching, psychotherapeutic, and spiritual practices encompassing Psychedelic Integration as the center of his interventions. He is a Registered Eclectic Psychotherapist and a Master Certified Coach (MCC) designated by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
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Debbie Ekner
Community Leader & Neurofeedback SpecialistDebbie Ekner has spent four decades serving Thailand's disadvantaged communities through Central Thailand Mission — children of incarcerated parents, displaced Karen youth fleeing conflict in Myanmar, and persecuted Pakistani refugees denied education and healthcare.
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Dr. Belinda Hayes
Educator, Executive Coach & Facilitator | ICF PCCDr Belinda Hayes is an educator, executive leadership coach, and facilitator with over 30 years of experience across New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Combining Applied Linguistics expertise with over 2,000 coaching hours, her trauma-informed practice helps leaders and educators navigate complex systems and change.
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