Skip to content Skip to footer
A parent and child at a kitchen table, figuring things out together
About thrvhub

We know this from the inside.

thrvhub was built by educators and parents who got tired of watching people struggle for want of the right knowledge.

Why we built thrvhub

We've both sat in the same rooms. IEP meetings, school corridors, professional development sessions that left us with more questions than answers. We've been the parent trying to decode a diagnosis report, and the educator trying to support a student without the right tools to do it properly.

What struck us, every time, was how much difference the right knowledge makes. Not theory. Not jargon. The kind of practical, honest understanding that changes what you do the next morning.

That knowledge existed. It just wasn't accessible. It was locked behind expensive workshops, dense academic papers, or scattered across corners of the internet that took hours to find and longer to trust.

thrvhub was built to fix that. Practical courses, written by people who've lived this, designed for people who don't have hours to spare.

How we got here
This didn't start as a business.
It started as our life.
2012
The first diagnosis
Our child's diagnosis arrived and changed everything. Not in the way the paperwork described it, but in the way it reframed a whole childhood. We weren't in crisis. We were finally getting answers.
2015
School, friendships, and the hard years
The social side of school became a daily challenge. Friendships that didn't quite work. Moments in the playground that left marks. We watched, we advocated, and we learned. Often the hard way, how much the environment shapes the child.
2021
High school and navigating a new kind of hard
High school brought a different set of challenges. More complex social dynamics. Higher academic pressure. A system designed for a particular kind of learner, and our kids weren't quite it. We kept showing up.
2022
Travel, and a revelation
We travelled with our kids and watched something shift. Outside the classroom, outside the system, they thrived. Different environments unlocked different versions of them. That stayed with us.
2023
Studying Education Support
Dave and Emily enrolled in Education Support together. What they'd lived as parents, they started learning as practitioners. The combination of those two lenses turned out to be rare, and valuable.
2023 to 2024
Listening to the community
Hundreds of conversations: parents, teachers, support workers, students. What works. What doesn't. What people desperately needed but couldn't find. A clear picture emerged. The knowledge existed. It just wasn't accessible to the people who needed it most.
Today
thrvhub
Built from everything we lived and everything we learned. Not a side project. Not a business plan. This is our heart on our sleeves, working as hard as we can to make everyone's lives richer.
The people behind thrvhub
The people behind thrvhub.
Dave Harrison
Dave
Co-founder

Dave spent years in and around schools, working directly with students who learn differently and watching, up close, how much the right support changes a child's trajectory. He also knows what it's like from the other side of the table: as the parent of a neurodivergent child, he's sat through the meetings, navigated the waiting lists, and learned to advocate in systems that weren't always designed with his family in mind.

It was that combination, professional knowledge and personal experience, that made thrvhub feel necessary. Not just useful. Necessary. He built it for the educators who care but feel underprepared, and for the parents who are doing everything right but still feel lost.

Dave and Emily met while studying Education Support, and the bond they formed there became the foundation for everything thrvhub is built on.

Emily Jones
Emily
Educator and course creator

Emily brings specialist expertise and a rare ability to explain complex ideas without losing any of their depth. Her courses are warm, precise, and built around what a learner can actually do with the information, not just what they'll know after it. She has a way of making people feel capable rather than overwhelmed, which is exactly what this kind of learning calls for.

As a neurodivergent person raising neurodivergent children, her passion for this work goes well beyond the professional. She knows these experiences from the inside, and that understanding shapes everything she creates.

Her work at thrvhub covers some of the most challenging and under-resourced areas in neurodivergent education, and her learners consistently describe her content as the clearest, most usable professional development they've encountered. Emily and Dave met while studying Education Support, and that shared foundation is what everything here is built on.

Also on the team
Holli
Holli
Inclusion Expert & Course Creator
Alana
Alana
Teacher's Aide Expert
Liz
Liz
Instructor
Our mission

The right knowledge changes everything.

We believe that when the people around a neurodivergent learner have the right knowledge and tools, everything changes. Not eventually. Right away.

That's why every course on thrvhub is built around a single question: what does someone actually need to know to help right now? Not theory for theory's sake. Not academic language that takes a PhD to decode. Practical knowledge, clearly explained, immediately useful.

Because every learner deserves someone in their corner who actually knows what they're doing.

What we stand for
Evidence-based
Every course is grounded in research and current best practice. Not trends. Not opinions dressed up as facts.
Lived experience
We write from real experience in classrooms, in homes, and in support roles. Not just credentials.
Genuinely practical
Every lesson answers the question: what do I do with this? If it can't be applied, it doesn't belong here.
Respectful by design
We talk about neurodivergent people the way we'd want our own kids talked about. With dignity, accuracy, and care.

Ready to start?

Browse our full course library and start with any free course today. No commitment needed.

Browse all courses