Available keynotes

Decoding Complex Behaviours:
What Every Professional Needs to Know About the Brain, Trauma, and Safety

Why do some children continue to struggle despite everyone's best efforts?

When behaviours become aggressive, explosive, avoidant, or seemingly defiant, adults often feel pressured to "fix" the child. Yet many of the most challenging behaviours are rooted in neurodevelopmental differences, trauma, attachment disruptions, and chronic stress—not a lack of motivation or poor parenting.

In this keynote, Dr. Maude Champagne combines neuroscience, attachment research, trauma-informed practice, and real-world clinical experience to help audiences understand the hidden factors driving complex behaviours.

Participants will learn how to move beyond behaviour management and develop responses that increase safety, connection, regulation, and long-term success.

When Love and Care Is Not Enough:
Supporting Families and Professionals Facing Aggression, Violence, and Relational Trauma

What happens when the people trying the hardest to help are the ones slowly breaking down?

Behind every child with severe behavioural challenges is a network of adults carrying enormous responsibility. Parents may be living with aggression, threats, destruction, fear, and isolation. Educators and professionals may be experiencing burnout, compassion fatigue, moral distress, and concerns about safety.

This keynote brings forward a conversation that is often missing: the impact of complex behaviours on the adults who care.

Drawing on Nonviolent Resistance (NVR), caregiver recovery, and years of work with families experiencing aggression toward caregivers, Dr. Maude Champagne explores how communities can respond in ways that protect safety, reduce isolation, and strengthen relationships without shame, blame, or punishment.