RESPECT, INTEGRITY AND NON-VIOLENCE
Program Director / Facilitator - Mark Wadie

You've received the letter. Suspension. Expulsion. Your child's education and future is at risk. The school has reached a breaking point. And you're left wondering: what now?
Before exclusion becomes permanent, know this: one mistake or a pattern of them doesn't have to end your child's schooling or their prospects. Often, the behavior you
You've received the letter. Suspension. Expulsion. Your child's education and future is at risk. The school has reached a breaking point. And you're left wondering: what now?
Before exclusion becomes permanent, know this: one mistake or a pattern of them doesn't have to end your child's schooling or their prospects. Often, the behavior you're seeing isn't simply defiance or poor choices made in a vacuum. Trauma, peer pressure, unprocessed emotions, family stress, substance experimentation, or exposure to violence create automatic reactions that young people may not even understand themselves. Standard disciplinary approaches often fail because they don't address what's actually driving the behavior.

The Forge in Schools is a structured, evidence-based intervention program; not punishment, but clinical support. Designed for students facing serious school discipline, the 12 week program combines Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Behavioral Coaching to address the underlying drivers of misconduct before a young per
The Forge in Schools is a structured, evidence-based intervention program; not punishment, but clinical support. Designed for students facing serious school discipline, the 12 week program combines Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Behavioral Coaching to address the underlying drivers of misconduct before a young person is lost to the system.
Led by Mark Wadie (NLP Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, and Coach Psychotherapist), The Forge helps students:

Neuroscience shows us that traumatic experiences, unprocessed emotions, and ingrained neural patterns drive automatic responses that willpower and consequences alone won't shift. The Forge works directly with these subconscious patterns, creating measurable improvements in behavioral regulation, conflict resolution, and genuine insight i
Neuroscience shows us that traumatic experiences, unprocessed emotions, and ingrained neural patterns drive automatic responses that willpower and consequences alone won't shift. The Forge works directly with these subconscious patterns, creating measurable improvements in behavioral regulation, conflict resolution, and genuine insight into change.
For Schools
Rather than excluding a young person, give them a real clinical pathway back. The Forge works alongside your school's pastoral care, providing professional intervention that addresses the factors behind the behavior while keeping students engaged with education. It supports your duty of care and produces better outcomes than exclusion alone.
For Parents
Your child deserves a second chance, with the real support to take it. Before exclusion becomes their path, explore an alternative that gives them genuine tools and professional help to turn things around.

BREAK THE CYCLE - GET BACK IN
ASSESS: Comprehensive intake assessment to understand your triggers, patterns, and what support you actually need.
TRANSFORM: 12 SESSIONS of structured change through three intensive phases:
RETURN: Your progress report becomes the evidence schools need for readmission. We provide ongoing support and accountability sessions to keep you moving forward post-return.

Understand Yourself: Know what's really driving your behavior: the triggers, patterns, and beliefs that keep you stuck.
Manage Your Emotions: Learn to handle anger, stress, and pressure without exploding, hurting people, or reaching for drugs or alcohol.
Own Your Choices: Stop blaming others. Take responsibility and build the skills to make different decisions going forward.
Shift Your Mindset: Move from reactive and negative to proactive and resilient. Stop expecting the worst and start building something better.
Handle Stress Without Relapsing: Get real tools for high-pressure moments so you can stay clean and stay focused.
Break Bad Habits, Build Good Ones: Ditch the patterns that destroy your life and replace them with routines that actually work for you.
Find Your Purpose: Discover what you're actually about. Your values, your passions, your why—and build a life around that, not your past.

What Changed:
How your emotional regulation, mindset, self-awareness, and accountability have improved, and the specific behavioral shifts you've made: reduced conflict patterns, greater emotional intelligence, and healthier ways of coping with stress and triggers.
What You Achieved:
Your progress against the goals you set at the start. Whether that's breaking negative habits, managing stress more effectively, or building routines that actually work for you.
Your Journey:
A session-by-session summary that tracks your breakthroughs, key insights, and the turning points in your development, creating a clear timeline of how you've moved forward.
What's Next:
Practical strategies and recommendations to maintain your progress and continue building on the foundation you've created.
This report is evidence. It shows schools, courts, and the people who matter most that you've done the work and that change is real.
This Client Progress Report documents real change. It's tangible evidence of the student's commitment to rehabilitation, showing the specific work they have done to address behavioral issues and the measurable progress they have made through structured intervention. Schools use this report when considering readmission. It demonstrates not just intention, but concrete action and genuine transformation. It's the evidence that supports their return to the school community.
You'll work to address your substance use, manage cravings, navigate peer pressure, and build a relapse prevention plan that actually works for your life. Sessions are personalized based on your intake assessment. Whether you're dealing with alcohol, drugs, or both, and what triggered your use in the first place.
The goal isn't just getting clean. It's staying clean and understanding why you used so you don't go back.
Violence comes from something such as anger you can't control, feeling disrespected, needing to prove something. The program helps you understand your triggers and why you react the way you do.
Once you get that, you learn how to handle conflict without escalating, how to walk away without losing face, and how to build relationships where you're not constantly fighting for control or respect. You'll get practical tools for when anger hits—because we know it will.
The goal: break the cycle and build a future where violence isn't your answer.
You're not doing this alone. From day one, you'll work with Mark as your mentor and accountability partner. Someone who knows what you're dealing with and actually calls you out when you slip up.
At the start, you'll make a program agreement together. It's straightforward: here's what success looks like, here are the boundaries, here's what you're committing to. It sounds simple, but this agreement is everything. It's what keeps you on track when things get hard. You'll have regular check-ins where Mark reviews your progress, keeps you honest, and makes sure you're doing the work.
Ready to walk a different path? Our program uses advanced techniques to access and unlock the subconscious barriers created by addiction, trauma, and violence, allowing you to find lasting freedom and transformation. These barriers aren't just ideas you have. They are deeply embedded patterns that operate beneath conscious awareness, automatically triggering cravings, emotional reactions, or defensive behaviors before you've even had a chance to think. Through hypnotherapy, we work directly with your subconscious mind in a deeply relaxed state, where these patterns are most accessible and changeable. Rather than fighting against unwanted behaviors at the conscious level, we help reprogram the underlying responses including the triggers, associations, and learned reactions that drive them. This allows you to break free from cycles that logic and willpower alone haven't shifted, creating genuine neurological change that supports lasting recovery and resilience.
Building your own practical tools to reframe negative thoughts and beliefs, fostering healthier thought patterns to improve your life. Through NLP techniques, you'll learn to identify the language patterns and internal processes that keep you stuck. Whether that's automatic negative self-talk, limiting beliefs about your potential, or habitual thought loops that trigger unhelpful behaviors. We help you restructure these patterns at their source, giving you concrete strategies to interrupt old thinking habits and replace them with responses that serve you better. This isn't about positive thinking alone...it's about understanding how your mind works and gaining the flexibility to respond differently to life's challenges, building genuine resilience and lasting behavioral change.
Full participation in all coaching sessions is mandatory. Missed sessions must be rescheduled in advance, and consistent participation is key to achieving program outcomes.
Clients are expected to actively engage in all aspects of the program, including coaching, exercises, and the implementation of new strategies outside of sessions. Progress depends on the willingness to apply new techniques in real-life situations.
All sessions and personal information shared within the program are confidential and will not be disclosed without prior consent, except when required by law.
Clients must demonstrate a genuine desire to change and be open to feedback. The program involves confronting difficult emotions and behaviors, and clients must be willing to challenge and reshape their thought patterns.
Successful completion of the program is defined as meeting the personal goals outlined during the intake assessment, participating fully in the program, and showing measurable progress.
Clients are expected to comply with any legal obligations they may have, including attending school-mandated appointments or meetings.