Wonderful Me! is all about ensuring that our approach to children and young people in our churches enables every child to feel welcomed, safe, seen, heard and known – to be included and to flourish in the knowledge that they are each wonderfully made by a loving God.

Over the past few decades, our knowledge and understanding of how our brains develop and operate, of the affect that trauma can have on brain development and wider wellbeing and of how we process and understand emotions has grown exponentially. New technologies – things like MRI scans – have enabled us to more fully understand scripture that says we are fearfully and wonderfully made – that we are knit together – as we have increasingly discovered that we are integrated beings – that our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health is connected and woven together. We are better able to appreciate and celebrate difference as we have have learned more about neurodiversity and can understand behaviour as communication.

But lots of this learning is still new and hasn’t always filtered through to the people who need it the most – those working day in day out with children and young people – and so Wonderful Me! is about that – support, training and resources that draws on some of that rich learning and makes it accessible and practical for churches and organisations who are seeking to create safe spaces that enable every child to feel seen, heard and valued.