Making complex behavior easy to understand

Looking Beyondthe Behavior

Behavior is the surface. Needs are underneath.
ByJulie Warren
The surface lifts

What you see is
only the surface.

The Root System

Eight needs beneath
every behavior.

Above the line is what we see. Below it is what the nervous system is reaching for. Follow each root to the need it feeds.

Scroll to lift the surface
Follow the roots

Each one below feeds a specific behavior above the line.

Manage the behavior and it returns.
Meet the need and the child changes.

This is what Looking Beyond the Behavior teaches, one visual at a time.

Looking Beyond the Behavior book cover by Julie Warren
The Book

What if behavior
is not the problem?

Please see me. Please hear me. Please understand me — my behavior may be my best attempt to communicate what I need, what I feel, or what I am experiencing.

Looking Beyond the Behavior is an insightful visual experience that transforms the way we understand human behavior. Through engaging illustrations, visual frameworks, and easy-to-understand examples, it makes complex behavioral concepts simple, clear, and memorable.

Instead of focusing on behavior alone, this book uncovers the hidden patterns that often lie beneath the surface — how the nervous system, unmet needs, stress, anxiety, burnout, fear, and lived experience shape the way people think, feel, and respond.

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Julie Warren, author of Looking Beyond the Behavior
The Author

Julie Warren
Autism Achievement

Julie Warren is an educator, Adapted Physical Education teacher, and debut author with a Master's in Education and more than 20 years of experience supporting students with disabilities.

As an autistic educator, she has spent years studying her own nervous system and observing recurring patterns in human behavior — leading to the visual framework presented in Looking Beyond the Behavior.

Driven by a passion to make complex ideas easy to understand, Julie combines professional experience, lived experience, and visual learning to help educators, parents, therapists, and other professionals look beneath behavior to understand the needs driving it.

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Inside the book

Five chapters,
one way of seeing.

Each chapter builds on the last, moving from what we see on the surface to what the nervous system is asking for underneath.

Get in touch

Questions about
the book?

For bulk orders, speaking requests, school visits, or anything else send a note and Julie will get back to you.

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