Discover Butterfly Brain Learning


A holistic program designed to support children’s emotional growth, learning development and creative expression.


Challenging times call for meaningful and innovative approaches. Discover unique methods to


  • stimulate social-emotional learning & well-being
  • support inclusive learning & remediation
  • integrate holistic & creative education

1,200

Enthousiastic

participants

20

Years of experience in innovative education

150

Schools where we've implemented transformative projects

120

countries co-creating for the Societies for the Future & Schools for the Future project

A holistic learning approach for today’s classrooms

Butterfly Brain learning offers schools an integrated approach to social-emotional learning, reading motivation, and inclusive education. Through a meaningful story combined with multisensory learning materials — including movement, creative exercises, music, and reflection — children are supported in developing emotional awareness, resilience, and connection with others.


The program is designed to meet diverse learning needs and is particularly supportive for neurodiverse learners, while also strengthening language development and engagement across the classroom. In addition, it provides schools with a framework that aligns with educational priorities such as remediation, arts and cultural education, and student well-being.


This creates a learning environment in which children can grow at their own pace, rediscover motivation, and develop both cognitively and emotionally.


1. Social-emotional learning & well-being

Supports children in developing emotional awareness, resilience, empathy, and positive relationships through storytelling and reflective activities.


2. Inclusive learning & remediation

Engages diverse learners, including neurodiverse students, through multisensory methods that strengthen reading, language, and mathematical skills in an accessible way.


3. Holistic & creative education

Integrates arts, movement, imagination, and cultural education into a meaningful learning experience that fosters creativity, motivation, and personal growth.

Tailored projects for schools

Learning through creativity, story and imagination 

Creative cultural-educational programmes

We develop and facilitate artistic programmes that help children and young people find their voice, think creatively, and build self-confidence. The programmes can be implemented within schools, learning environments and extracurricular projects.


We support schools in working with arts education, imagination, and creative citizenship and connects language, art, music, movement, and storytelling into one meaningful learning experience in which children actively participate, create, and reflect. More info on request



Social-emotional learning & well-being

Social-emotional development in the classroom 

In the story 'Asiro and the magical signs', students follow the adventure of Asiro, a boy who grows up in a flower meadow and learns to navigate emotions, connection, and inner growth. Each chapter opens the door to themes such as anger, empathy, cooperation, resilience, and self-awareness, allowing children to develop social-emotional skills in a natural and engaging way.


When the book is combined with complementary materials from the online Butterfly Brain learning program — such as animated videos, songs, creative exercises, movement, and guided visualizations — it creates a holistic learning experience that goes far beyond language and vocabulary. These elements support children in exploring their inner world, developing awareness of others, and deepening emotional understanding — all essential aspects of social-emotional learning in education.


The materials are designed to:


  • strengthen social-emotional competencies such as self-regulation, empathy, and connectedness
  • stimulate reflection and deeper meaning through stories and characters children can relate to
  • support resilience, cooperation, and positive group dynamics through shared exercises and interactive activities


With this book, schools offer not only a meaningful reading experience, but also a powerful tool to help children grow in emotional intelligence, self-confidence, and connection with others — in a playful yet profound way.


Inclusive learning & remediation

Reading motivation & tailored remediation

Asiro and the Magical Signs is not only a story for social-emotional development, but also a powerful tool to enhance reading motivation and support language and mathematical skills, especially for children who find learning challenging.


Through storytelling, children naturally become curious. They want to know what happens next, identify with the characters, and become emotionally engaged. This increases intrinsic motivation to read, including for children who struggle with reading, experience performance anxiety, or have had negative learning experiences.


The story serves as the entry point and is supported by:


  • playful language and sound exercises
  • phonetic activities
  • visual support
  • movement and multisensory tasks


As a result, reading is no longer experienced as an obligation, but as exploration and discovery.

From Imagination to Mastery

Support for learning challenges and neurodiversity

The Butterfly Brain Learning materials are particularly suitable for children with diverse learning needs, including high sensitivity, language delays, and challenges with concentration or performance anxiety.


Because learning takes place through multiple channels simultaneously — visual, auditory, physical, emotional, and imaginative — children can process information in ways that suit them best. This reduces stress, increases self-confidence, and activates alternative learning pathways beyond traditional cognitive approaches.


Remediation without stigmatization

The accompanying “magic workbooks” include language and mathematics exercises that:


  • are connected to the story
  • build up gradually in difficulty
  • bridge intuitive (imaginative) and analytical thinking
  • are suitable for both individual support and classroom use


Because the exercises are embedded in a narrative context, remediation does not feel like extra work or tutoring, but as a natural continuation of the story. This makes the material particularly valuable for support teachers, learning specialists, and schools aiming for inclusive education.

A butterfly cannot fly with only one strong wing. By stimulating and using both think and dream talent, our brain and our 'being' can reach unprecedented heights.

The Butterfly Brain

 

  • The left wing of our butterfly brain can also be described as our think talent, ratio or ego: The think talent is logical, methodical, and disciplined. It learns through repetition, reasoning, and organizing data. It focuses on details, thinks in concepts such as "time," judges, and is critical. It is connected to our daily consciousness.
  • The right wing of our butterfly brain can be described as our dream talent:
    The dream talent is emotional, creative, instinctive, and learns by absorbing information like a sponge. It does not judge, focuses on the whole, and has no awareness of time. It thinks in images, colors, music, and scents. It is highly sensitive to frequencies and is connected to our multidimensional consciousness..


A Taste of the Butterfly Brain Learning Materials

 

Through the Butterfly Brain learning materials, children learn to keep their entire Butterfly Brain active and open, develop social-emotional and intuitive skills, and acquire knowledge in an accelerated and playful way.


These materials are suitable as a starting point for thematic lessons in the classroom, as homeschool materials, or as supplementary materials for coaches.


Below you can find some examples of the online Butterfly Brain learning materials.

Butterfly Brain Learning is a deeply transformative process – Annelien, mother of Rosalie, 6y

Butterfly Brain Learning brought us so much more than just learning letters. On a deep level, it connected us with our essence and helped us better understand earthly mechanisms. By walking this path together, we have developed a deeper understanding of each other and created a harmonious space where learning truly becomes a magical process.


Sometimes, you just know deep inside that you're about to find an important key—an answer to a question that has been living in you for a long time. For me and my daughter Rosalie, who was just about to start first grade, Butterfly Brain Learning was exactly that key.


The months leading up to September 1st, I felt an undefined restlessness. We were incredibly happy at our free-spirited, playful Freinet school, where children learn with open hearts and full enthusiasm. And yet… something felt missing. I noticed how Rosalie kept struggling with the flat, rational 3D way of thinking. While her deep philosophical insights flowed effortlessly and her loving nature blossomed, she just couldn't seem to grasp the purely practical learning material.


My intuition was confirmed when, in the first few weeks, she had trouble remembering separate letters—letters without deeper meaning or a larger, connected story.


💡 And then we discovered Butterfly Brain Learning.


Suddenly, every letter became an adventure. With wide, sparkling eyes, Rosalie soaked up the stories, feeling them on every level. And every single day, I heard:

“Just one more video, Mom?”


The first letter, Ikkerdetik, made an unforgettable impression. Whenever someone at home got angry or "exploded," I’d hear the kids instinctively say:


🌬️ "Breathe in, breathe out, place your feet on the ground, and make a sound..."


Again and again, I was amazed at how clearly they understood the deeper layers.


"You just want to be heard and seen… and you’re afraid that no one understands you."


Truth from the mouth of a child.


They effortlessly integrated these insights into their daily lives. They also instinctively grasped the difference between the ego version (I-bomb) and the higher version (Isa) of each letter. More than that—they realized they had a choice in how they responded. And they could articulate it perfectly to us, their parents!


Learning with the heart, thinking in stories, living in connection.

Children discover a deeper layer of themselves through Butterfly Brain Learning, in a playful and natural way without losing their authenticity, – Anouk van Rooij-Sjardin, Play Therapy & Developmental Coach

I find it truly beautiful and remarkable how effortlessly you weave the multidimensional with the earthly and practical, in a way that deeply resonates with children.

Butterfly Brain Learning creates a space where emotions take shape, supported by mental clarity that opens the door to growth and understanding. The foundation of it all? Unconditional love and acceptance.


Thank you for your perseverance, vision, and love in this pioneering work.

The Butterfly Brain Learning course is a beautiful gift to yourself. I understand my daughter better. I can truly connect with her emotional and mental world. And now, I can say that I see the child within me again—every day a little more. Elke, mother of Nimbe (6 y.o.) 

During my pregnancy with Nime, the Covid pandemic broke out. That was when the idea of homeschooling started to grow.

The idea of following your child’s natural rhythm and allowing more space for free expression and connection with nature really spoke to me.

At that perfect moment, Briony crossed my path. I followed the Rainbow Talent Plan and the energetic training.

I thought my journey was complete… until Briony told me about Butterfly Brain Learning. Her eyes lit up, and I felt butterflies in my stomach.

At that point, my daughter Nime had just started preschool, but I immediately saw Butterfly Brain Learning as a beautiful complement, a real enrichment for her.

Now I know: it’s a journey of discovery you take together.

I understand my daughter better, I can deeply connect with her feelings and thoughts.

And honestly? I might be the one who needed these lessons the most 🙂

The letter lessons appear light and joyful, but if you truly feel into them as an adult, so much comes to the surface—your own fears, patterns, insecurities, self-sabotaging thoughts. Everything that was still stored as unprocessed emotion in my body was allowed to come out.

And now I can say I see the child in me again—every day a little more.

And it feels wonderful. That freedom. That playfulness. That joy. That sincere wonder for all the beauty around me

In short: the Butterfly Brain Learning course is a beautiful gift to yourself.

This training, with seemingly small tasks, is a true gem. Sabine Baeyens, Qigong Sensory Therapy - Make Children Better. The online assignments and tasks, which gradually guide you deeper into the subject, have a much deeper impact than I could have ever imagined. I move from lesson to lesson at my own pace—it's wonderful, no pressure, no obligations.

Experiences of participants

Butterfly Brain Learning is a wonderful and connecting challenge that I undertake together with my almost 6-year-old daughter. I use it as inspiration for homeschooling, and it provides me with both structure and a clear framework to work within. It is a playful and exploratory journey towards free and intuitive learning that inspires us both immensely.

— Claudia


Through this method, I not only learn a lot about my daughter, but also about myself and the way I present learning materials or have learned things myself. It constantly encourages me to fully trust my daughter's intrinsic learning system, which strengthens her confidence in learning.


Wherever we go, we build little fairy houses, and we dance and sing together in the living room. The magic symbols are becoming more and more present in our daily lives, and the excitement for the next new letter grows every time.


Sometimes I think it would be wonderful to do these exercises together with more children. This is something I definitely want to implement in our homeschooling group in the future.

The combination of movement, play, and multisensory learning not only helps me work more creatively with the children I support but also benefits me personally.

Inge Adriaenssens, occupational therapist specialized in sensory learning.

The extra live days bring a deeper connection that is hard to describe but gives me a lot of energy and joy.

My 1.5-year-old daughter sings the letter songs with passion and spontaneously starts counting. — Jennifer

My 3-year-old daughter spontaneously discovers letters in books after attending the Butterfly Brain lessons. — Drawde

Today, Saga started talking about Butterfly Brain learning all by herself. She really wanted to watch a video, so we watched Babaji the Whale. We wrote the letter together, and recently, while walking through a center, she recognized several letters on the building’s facade. I’m so incredibly proud of her — she’s almost 3 and can already write and recognize several letters with both hands.

My 5-year-old son has fewer anger outbursts and can calm himself more easily using the Butterfly Brain breathing techniques.

— Renate

Since we started with Butterfly Brain Learning, I’ve noticed that Bas not only gets to fully express his curiosity, but he also finds emotional calm. He’s naturally very eager to learn—asking endless questions since he was little because he truly wants to understand everything. He absolutely loves the letter symbols: crafting them, recognizing them, doing worksheets, watching the flash videos… he’s so enthusiastic about it all.


But what touches me most is how the songs and stories help him come back to himself. He sings some of the songs spontaneously several times a day—the breathing song is a real hit. They give him insight, but also bring peace to his system. He’s learning to better express what he feels and is starting to consciously breathe more calmly.


He enjoys working with the 'mask', although I notice he still takes things very literally. When I tell him to “feel where the ball is,” he starts looking for it with his hands. Explaining abstract things like that can still be a bit tricky.


He tends to avoid the dances, finger exercises, or giving massages—though he really enjoys receiving them. And closing his eyes or imagining things is still not comfortable for him.


Still, I can see how much he gets out of it, in his own way. He’s growing not only in knowledge, but also in self-confidence and inner calm. That’s incredibly valuable to me as a parent.

Your Butterfly Brain guide

Briony Vanden Bussche

With a deep passion for innovation in education and entrepreneurship, Briony leads the Butterfly Brain project and is the author of the book Activate Superpowers with Butterfly Brain Learning.

Over the years, she has coached hundreds of schools, integrating cognitive skills, artistic expression, and intuitive development through innovative educational methods that bring learning to life with multidimensional stories and fairy tales. She also founded an innovative primary school in Belgium, where she served as director for several years. For over 20 years, she has been offering transformative programs for educators, parents, and teachers, empowering them to help children develop dream power, self-confidence, emotional balance, and even superlearning abilities. She is board member of a school for teens in Belgium.

Beyond education, she is passionate about entrepreneurship and quantum - unlimited thinking. Over the past 12 years, she has launched various initiatives, including events with up to 3,000 attendees, bridging education, business, and personal growth. She coaches entrepreneurs to break boundaries, embrace their dreams, and amplify their impact.

Her mission is to support humanity in shaping a future where holistic and sustainable living, working, and learning become the new standard. Through the Societies for the Future movement, she is co-creating a world where innovation and heart-centered transformation go hand in hand.

A butterfly cannot fly with only one strong wing. By stimulating and using both think and dream talent, our brain and our 'being' can reach unprecedented heights.