INSTITUTELife Smart
Learning to participate in everyday life.
- Self-understanding
- Communication
- Daily routines
- Wellbeing and self-care
- Decision-making
- Growing independence
What does this child need to understand and practise to participate more confidently?
A NEXIE Productised Service
LAMAHS
Life, Action, Mind and Heart Smart
Learning with understanding. Growing with capability. Contributing with purpose.
LAMAHS is a personalised developmental-learning framework that helps adults understand how a child communicates, relates, processes information and participates—then create more compatible learning across life, action, mind and heart.
A new paradigm in education
Understand the child
before choosing what to teach.
Traditional approaches may begin with curriculum, behaviour or age expectations. LAMAHS begins with the learner—their strengths, communication, relationships, capacity, participation, stress, environment, supports and agency.
NEXIE does not begin by asking only:
“What should this person be taught?”
It also asks:
“Who is this person? What is their unique blueprint? What is influencing their capacity to communicate, relate, regulate, learn and participate?”
A blueprint starts observation and responsive learning. It must never fix identity or limit what a child can become.
LifeActionMindHeartIntegrated
Learner
Learner
The LAMAHS framework
Four connected dimensions of
learning and development.
Life, Action, Mind and Heart are not separate subjects. The child draws on all four to understand what is needed, explore possibilities, consider relationships and apply learning.
Life + Action + Mind + Heart = whole-learner participation
Four connected dimensions
Learning that becomes
capability.
Each dimension includes a reflective planning question and age-appropriate opportunities for practice.
Action Smart
Learning through movement, experience and purposeful action.
- Play and embodied learning
- Movement and sensory participation
- Practical problem-solving
- Persistence
- Responsible action
- Contribution
How can this learner turn understanding into purposeful action?
Mind Smart
Learning to think, inquire and make meaning.
- Curiosity and inquiry
- Language and concepts
- Reasoning
- Imagination and creativity
- Flexible thinking
- Making connections
How does this child process, organise and express understanding?
Heart Smart
Learning to understand emotions, relationships and values.
- Emotional literacy
- Co-regulation
- Relational safety
- Empathy
- Belonging
- Values and repair
What helps this child feel connected, understood and able to respond with awareness?
The child’s developmental blueprint
Personalise learning without creating
a fixed label.
SYMBEB and the Six Social Brains may support reflection on individual differences while keeping every profile open to development, observation and revision.
Communication preferencesAttention and interestsHow experiences are processedHelpful pace and structureConditions for relational safetyImportant values or needsResponses under stressSupports for re-engagementMind, heart and action preferencesStrength-connected learning
Capability and rectitude
Learn, contribute, reflect
and repair.
Real experiences develop capability; developmentally appropriate reflection builds responsibility without shame or forced apology.
What children practise to learn and contribute.
CommunicationConnectionCuriosityCreativityCollaborationContribution
How action, impact and relationship are reconsidered.
RecognitionReflectionResponsibilityRepairReconnectionRe-engagement
What LAMAHS may support
Learning beyond
academic content.
These are intended educational and developmental contributions. Individual development varies and outcomes are not guaranteed.
- Stronger child–adult understanding
- More personalised learning
- Communication and participation
- Family–educator partnership
- Recognition of strengths and interests
- Compatible learning environments
- Emotional-language development
- Reflective decision-making
- Growing responsibility and agency
- Relationship repair
- Practical life capability
- Creative and collaborative learning
- Continuity across settings
Two primary pathways
Apply the framework
where learning happens.
MUMspired empowers the parent as educator. LAMAHS supplies the child-learning framework that parents and educators apply.
Nurture life, action, mind and heart at home.
Observe how the child learns and translate understanding into everyday relationships, routines, play, projects and community experiences.
- Parent Introduction Guide
- Strengths and Interests Profile
- SYMBEB family reflection
- Four-domain observation pages
- Home-Learning Experience Cards
- Family Environment Reflection
- Emotion and Relationship Tools
- Capability Planner
- 6 R’s Family Reflection
- Child Voice pages
- Home–Education Communication Summary
- Learning Journey Portfolio
Plan curriculum through fuller learner understanding.
Connect developmental understanding with curriculum, strengths, communication, relational safety, participation and family partnership.
- Educator Practice Guide
- Learner Strengths and Participation Profile
- SYMBEB reflective resources
- Curriculum Planning Template
- Environment and Relationship Map
- 6 C’s Capability Planner
- 6 R’s Reflection and Repair Tool
- Family Partnership Summary
- Observation and learning-story prompts
- Participation planning
- Reflective-practice journal
- Program review tools
Learning environments
One framework across
different settings.
LAMAHS complements the curriculum, approved learning framework, registration process and organisational requirements relevant to each setting.
Home Learning
Routines, relationships, play, projects and community participation.
Family Day Care
Small-group, relationship-based and personalised learning.
Early Childhood
Approved frameworks, family partnership, observation and intentional teaching.
Preschool & School
Learner understanding, curriculum participation and differentiation.
Community Education
Libraries, neighbourhood centres, playgroups and youth programs.
Education Support
Participation and environmental adjustment within relevant planning requirements.
Across the NEXIE ecosystem
One child-learning framework across
many pathways.
Each connected service supplies its own audience, content, boundaries and delivery conditions.
NEXIE pathwayLAMAHS application
ECHOSGuided play and early family learning
BUMPEarly relational and developmental environments
MUMspiredParent-led home and community education
NEUROPREPLearning profiles and transition planning
TRACEDTrauma-aware, culturally responsive and inclusive learning
NEXIE INApplying learning principles in natural environments
KidspiredChild voice, strengths, agency and participation
CARIEFamily, learner and educator reflection
NEXIE PEDICureFive-pillar planning and review
Training and work opportunities
Help children become Life, Action,
Mind and Heart Smart.
Possible roles include family-learning, community-education, supported-play, home-learning, professional-learning and authorised Neuropreneur pathways.
Build responsive-learning capability.
- The NEXIE Method foundations
- Applied NeuroEducation
- Child development and participation
- Behaviour as communication
- Life, Action, Mind and Heart
- SYMBEB and Six Social Brains
- 6 C’s of Capability
- 6 R’s of Rectitude
- Observation and reflective planning
- Child voice and supported choice
- Parent and family partnership
- Inclusive and trauma-aware education
- Curriculum alignment
- Boundaries and referral
- Safeguarding and ethical facilitation
- Documentation and review
- Service delivery requirements
Completion of learning does not guarantee employment or independently qualify a participant as a teacher, therapist or specialist practitioner.
Productised Service Pack
Resources for planning,
participation and reflection.
Selected editions may add facilitator resources, presentation materials, session plans, participant handouts, implementation tools and defined professional or commercial use rights.
Family Workbook
Observation, reflection and everyday learning.
Educator Guide
Planning, participation and curriculum connection.
Learning Journey Portfolio
Child voice, experiences and progress across contexts.
Experience Cards
Practical Life, Action, Mind and Heart learning ideas.
6 C’s + 6 R’s Tools
Capability, responsibility, repair and re-engagement.
Pathway access
Continue through
My NEXIE.
As pathways open, families, educators, organisations and facilitators will access relevant learning, resources and editions. Professional and commercial editions may carry additional capability, training and use-right requirements.
Questions and Answers
Understand LAMAHS
before you begin.
What does LAMAHS mean?
Life, Action, Mind and Heart Smart—an integrated approach in which practical capability, purposeful action, thinking, emotional understanding, relationships and values develop together.
Is LAMAHS a curriculum?
LAMAHS is a proprietary developmental-learning framework and curriculum lens. It can inform planning and participation but does not replace an approved learning framework, registered curriculum, school syllabus or service responsibility.
Is LAMAHS only for children with additional needs?
No. It is designed to support fuller understanding of diverse learners. Suitability, adjustments and professional support depend on the child, context and setting.
Does SYMBEB diagnose my child?
No. SYMBEB is a collaborative reflective framework, not a diagnostic, psychometric, genetic, epigenetic or neurological assessment.
What does epigenetic-informed education mean?
It means considering development through continuing interaction between biology, relationships, experiences and environments. It does not test genes, identify biological causes or predict outcomes.
Can LAMAHS support home education?
It may support parent-led learning, routines, projects and reflection. Families undertaking formal home education remain responsible for registration, curriculum and legal requirements in their jurisdiction.
Can educators use LAMAHS professionally?
Potentially, through the appropriate edition and within qualifications, role, service governance and use rights. It does not change professional authority.
Can I deliver LAMAHS as a business?
Only through an approved commercial or Licensed Delivery pathway after meeting capability, learning, safeguarding, business and use-right requirements.
Does LAMAHS guarantee improved behaviour or learning?
No. It supports understanding, planning and participation, but individual development and outcomes vary.
Purpose. Pathway. Possibility.