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HELLO!

My name is Tier Blundell

Formerly excluded from school, I rose to attend Oxford University. I now help
individuals and organisations with educational consultancy and coaching. I am a
keen public speaker and live to inspire positive change.

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What I Do



EXCLUDED: BBC LIFE CHANGING WITH DR SIAN WILLIAMS


It was a real pleasure to meet Dr Sian Williams and appear on her inspiring BBC
programme, Life Changing. The broadcast goes out on Radio4, 09:00, Wednesday 1st
May  2024, but the podcast is available immediately.
Listen Now




THE LATE SHOW: WITH BECKY WANT


Delighted to be invited for a late night conversation with the BBC's Becky Want
on The Late Show. My segment begins 00:14:47 into the show, which is available
online for the next 30 days, or downloadable using the BBC Sounds App.

Listen Now



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MY WORK


HEALTHY WARRIORS


Healthy Warriors has been created to help men train their anger to serve them. A
man who does not harness their anger, picks a fight with everyone and about
everything; his relationships fail and he is delayed in his personal
development. The man who reins in his anger too much becomes a push over,
someone others may view as 'soft'. One who has mastery over his anger, harnesses
it as the force that pushes him to compete to be the best and moves him ever
forward towards his goals.

The overall aim of Healthy Warriors is to equip men to support men everywhere
with their anger, building a revolution in healthy masculinity that does not
allow anger to affect others, but is consciously expressed by individuals alone
or amongst peers, without shame or stigma.

Find out more at: https://healthywarriors.co.uk




SPEAKING

I seek to inspire and motivate through my real life, and often poignant, growing
up experiences. From early exposure to racism and rejection, through exclusion
from school, turning the corner as an MMA cage fighter, and the experiences
leading to my undertaking a PhD at Oxford University. I narrate my story whilst
curating the detail to the audience. My unique skill is being able to articulate
the experiences of young people in context. I enjoy questions and answers and
have lots to offer in the way of solutions to problems. I have spoken at
schools, businesses, community projects, conferences and more.

I am also passionate about amplifying the voices of lived experience and
bridging the gap between different groups of people, particularly in the
education space. I can facilitate discussions and collect insight in a report or
feedback session for your organisation. I can also offer various workshops that
help bring people together and better understand themselves and others.




WORKSHOPS

Engaging groups to recognise the positive possibilities for their life, through
interactive workshops that draw deeply on my life experiences as an excluded
child who is now undertaking a PhD at Oxford University. Building on our own
life experiences, we learn to see our past with compassion and approach our
future with new eyes and integrity.
I welcome enquiries on how I can create a workshop for your organisation. I have
an Enhanced DBS on the update system.


ABANDOFBROTHERS

Serving as a trustee for this inspirational organisation, concerned at the
continuing escalation of self-destructive and anti-social behaviour among young
men from every section of society, with recognition that any meaningful and
sustainable solution entails the reclamation of shared local responsibility. I
endeavour to bring the voice of young men between the ages of 18-25 who are
involved with or at risk of being involved with the criminal justice system, to
the board of trustees.

I also regularly volunteer and staff ‘rites of passage’ weekends for young men
and trainee mentors. It was at one of these very weekends where I was able to
inhabit the deep sense of shame within me, internalised racism and
self-loathing, leaving it all behind and stepping into a new manhood.

Find out more at: https://abandofbrothers.org.uk


HEALING THE SHADOW


I now undertake professionally accredited training in Shadow Work, a form of
therapeutic psychodrama aimed at helping people understand their inner-world and
make positive changes using symbolic action. Find out more at:
https://htsorganisation.co.uk/our-shadow-work-trainees/


EXCLUDED FROM SCHOOL

I am aiming to create a network of people who have been excluded from school so
that we can share our experiences and difficulties, be heard and advocate for
change. Many children are permanently excluded from school through no fault of
their own, they are children who suffer from adverse childhood experiences,
trauma and neurodiversity such as ADHD.


Rather than be offered treatment and support, they are often excluded first and
this may become an indelible mark on their psyche and future. Join or support
the network at: www.excludedfromschool.com

 * "Lots of parents contacted me saying their child's got ASD, or ADHD, or
   suspected neurodivergency and they're not in school at the moment, or they're
   facing exclusion, or they're appealing exclusion. And in every single one of
   those messages they are very clear. Their child is so intelligent, and so
   beautiful, and has so much ability but they're facing this horror story with
   schools and they're really fearful of their future. And what they're starting
   to see as well, and even professionals have spoken to me about this as well -
   educational psychologists have contacted me - those kids are losing hope,
   they're losing hope and we're missing out. We're missing out on their
   potential as well as a society and it's really sad. So I'm trying to create a
   network, build these stories, put people together and see what we can do.
   Because it isn't right that just because people can't conform and find
   themselves operating within the normal school system and the expectations of
   the school system, within classes of thirty, doing exams and that kind of
   conveyor belt, shouldn't mean they are written off."
   
   
   TIER BLUNDELL
   
   
   On BBC The Late Show, with Becky Want
   

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MY STORY

I am named after two men who rejected me and yet, I am able to stand in my
power.

My childhood was a mess, enmeshed between competing racisms, from both my
English and Pakistani sides of my identity. Too brown for one and too white for
the other, I struggled to make sense of my self and my surroundings. I had ADHD
and was developing Emotional Behavioural Difficulties due to a tumultuous
home-life and a lack of familial affection. With my brown skin in predominantly
white spaces, like my council estate and schools in Northampton, I was picked on
and provoked, until I fought back. Fighting back didn’t serve me though, it only
transferred my victimhood from perpetrators to teachers, who were only too
willing to throw the book at me. Defending myself became pathological, I became
reactive, argumentative and famously, disruptive - the keyword to throw any
young trauma laden lad out on his boot heels.

I had a passion for learning, particularly history, though my pupil referral
unit did not teach it specifically, we had a humanities teacher that told me I
wouldn’t amount to anything anyway. So I remained there, in my teenage years,
starting out as English as possible, socks tucked into my Adidas poppers,
Burberry (fake of course) cap with the visor bent as narrowly as possible and
three lions on my shirt. Later, as I got older and manoeuvred myself into a
position of being one of the ‘harder’ lads at school, I found solace in hip hop,
particularly Public Enemy and their song ‘Fight the Power’. I studied Malcolm X
and found vindication in a struggle that wasn’t my own but made me feel at home.

I left the referral unit at sixteen with no qualifications, addicted to energy
drinks and video-games. I held within me a repressed anger, which made me
irritable and always looking for a war to fight. That was until I got into
martial arts. I finally found a way to release my inner anger and harness it. In
that, I discovered a way I could make things happen for myself. I went on to
fight professionally and worked doors to fund my career, where I had many
encounters with men and their repressed anger and rage. Thanks to my training, I
kept my cool.

After a career in MMA, that took me around the world and made me a champion, I
wanted something more for myself and I wanted to right the wrongs of my
childhood, so I applied to do an Access Course at college and then went on to
get into the University of Warwick, where I earned a first class degree. I
undertook a masters degree at the University of St Andrews, where I studied the
history of ideas and then onto the University of Oxford, to undertake a PhD, an
extraordinary course for someone who had been excluded from school.

This led me to build on my knowledge of school exclusion by studying it
academically whilst practically involving myself in local alternative provision.

I began a business teaching martial arts in an inclusive way, setting up a gym
in Oxford. I focused the training sessions not only on raw technique and
fitness, but on how people could use technique to symbolically defeat what was
holding them back and set boundaries.

I then discovered the ‘Men’s Work’ movement and my life changed. Whilst
attending a ‘rites of passage’ weekend, I had the opportunity to really have a
look at myself. To look at the parts of me I have repressed and held in shadow -
stories and lines I have told myself for as long as I can remember and which no
longer serve me. After some powerful and transformational work expressing my
anger and grief, some of which had laid dormant for over a decade, occasionally
bubbling up like an invisible geyser of poison, I finally felt free to be me. I
didn’t need to hate myself anymore and unconsciously pursue self-destruction and
affirmation. I knew then I had to bring this work to as many men as possible.

I have spent the last three years throwing myself into this world, learning how
to facilitate and coach men to make a change in their life. Using my experience
in martial arts, education and men’s work, I stand ready to bring support to
people who want to say enough is enough and step into their power too.

Have a question? Just contact me...


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