🎙️ Future Talks When the System Fails You, You Build Something Better | A Story for Every SEND Family

Sharon Wilson and Helen Girvan are the co-founders of KyndeConnect — a development programme for parents and carers of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

Sharon and Helen have just been awarded the Diversity and Inclusion Leaders Award at the SouthWest Leadership Awards.

In this episode we talk about the isolation, identity loss, and mental health crisis that so many SEND parents are carrying, and what becomes possible when you finally find people who truly get it.

Topics we cover:

• What drove two SEND mums to build something the system wasn't providing
• The mental health crisis hiding inside isolation — and the research that proves it
• Why connection, identity, and nervous system regulation are the foundations everything else is built on
• Radical acceptance and the inherited maps of parenting we don't realise we're running on
• Guilt, shame, and the voice that says you're not trying hard enough
• The invisible load — and why SEND parents never really get two hours off
• Why the children don't need fixing, and what it actually means for the whole family to thrive
• The difference between what mums and dads tend to need from the programme

• Their vision for government policy, National Lottery expansion, and supporting employers during Carers Week in June

Find Sharon and Helen here:

🌐 www.kyndeconnect.co.uk

 💼 Sharon: linkedin.com/in/sharon-wilson-kyndeconnect

💼 Helen: linkedin.com/in/helen-girvan-aa568586

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