Mark Lloyd PGCE, BA (Hons)

Background


Mark is a UK- trained educator and theatre practitioner who founded Odyssey International School in Pattaya - a small, neuro- inclusive school designed to celebrate difference. His career weaves together strengths- based education, sensory- aware design, and creative methods such as Mantle of the Expert. Mark is also late- diagnosed ADHD, which fuels his passion for building schools that work with children’s brains, not against them.

Expertise


Mark’s areas of expertise include neuro- inclusive schooling, strengths- based education, trauma- informed practice, and sensory- friendly environments. He brings creative pedagogy into practice through sound- supported routines (such as ‘Be Time,’ Frequency Fridays, and the HushAway® Snug), strengths- based coaching, outdoor learning in ‘The Wild Place,’ and role- driven approaches like Mantle of the Expert. His methods are simple yet impactful - from environmental tweaks with light and sound, to giving children movement options and quiet zones.

Connection to the Mission


Mark is inspired by the PeacePath Circle’s commitment to giving schools and families practical ways to help children feel safe and settled. For him, ‘finding peace in the little sounds’ is that moment when a gentle soundscape helps a child’s body exhale - less fight- or- flight, more ‘I’m okay.’ His contribution to HushAway® is offering the classroom reality check: translating great audio tools into simple routines teachers and parents can use tomorrow.

Lived Experience & Insights


Mark’s own late ADHD diagnosis gives him lived insight into how environments shape outcomes. He has worked in a UK Communication & Interaction Centre and as a support worker, grounding his philosophy that inclusion is not theory - it’s day- to- day practice. He has learned that regulation always comes before education: when a child feels safe and settled, their capacity for learning, relationships, and behaviour grows.

Vision & Impact


Mark believes sound regulates, science guides, and storytelling motivates - and that together they create calm bodies, clear plans, and children who want to engage. Looking ahead, he sees the greatest opportunity in scaling low- cost, high- impact environmental changes like sound routines, movement choices, and teacher training, ensuring every classroom can support regulation without waiting for major rebuilds.

Fun Fact


Mark runs a theatre company and once performed Every Brilliant Thing in England, Thailand, and Cambodia. In a twist of fate, he later discovered his own name in a visitors’ book from 2010 in the very building that eventually became his school.

Three Words


Hopeful · Practical · Wholehearted