For teachers, SSOs, principals, school counsellors and school leadership teams.

A Comprehensive workshop tailored for educational settings to best support educators of neurodiverse students to thrive in learning in the classroom and schoolyard. Support your students to shine by embracing a neuroaffirming, inclusive approach in education. These workshops help educators deepen their understanding of neurodivergence through a lens of dignity, capability and potential, in line with Social Role Valorisation (SRV) principles.

**A professional development certificate outlining the topics covered will be provided upon completion of both days**

Cost: $50 per person

December 17
Session 1: Autism, PDA, ADHD, Giftedness, dyspraxia & Complex Learners
Unpack the layered profiles of complex learners and how to adapt support plans using strength-based, relational, and predictable strategies. 
Session 2: Creating a Neuroaffirming Classroom
Explore practical ways to design learning environments that support regulation, engagement, and authentic inclusion for neurodiverse learners. 

December 18
Session 3: Sensory Needs & Supporting Regulation in Schools
Understand the impact of sensory hyper- am hypo- sensitivities on learning and behaviour, and learn strategies to meet individual regulation needs in your classroom.
Session 4: Neurodivergent Social Experiences in School
Delve into how autistic, ADHD, and PDA students experience socialisation differently, and how we can shift practices to promote genuine belonging. 
Session 5: The NDIS & the Role of Allied Health professionals in Education
Learn how to partner effectively with NDIS-funded professionals and understand their roles within the school context to strengthen student outcomes. 

For support workers, youth workers, OSHC staff, sports coaches, program leaders, vacation care teams and similar youth focused roles.

Create inclusive spaces where neurodivergent individuals feel seen, safe and supported. These sessions equip Support workers and community workers to foster belonging and positive identity formation. Attendance at to all sessions is desirable, but not required.

**A professional development certificate outlining the topics covered will be provided upon completion of all 5 sessions.**

Cost $10 per session 

List of topics to be covered...

August 8: Understanding the NDIS in Community Settings. Clarify how the NDIS intersects with community programs, and the roles of responsibilities of NDIS-funded supports to best work in a respectful, effective and person-centred manner. 

August 15: Supporting Neurodiverse People in Community activities Gain tools to make sports, art, OSHC, and other community activities and environments more accessible, empowering all individuals to participate fully.

August 22: Sensory Awareness in Community Spaces Learn about sensory dysregulation; sensory sensitivities, sensory avoidance and hypo-sensitivities; how sensory environments affect participation, and how to reduce overwhelm with low-cost, high-impact accommodations.

August 29: How to Facilitate Neurodivergent Social Engagement as a support or community worker. Reframe your approach to engagement, communication, challenging behaviours and friendships through the eyes of neurodivergent youth and their social experiences. 

September 5: Understanding Autism, PDA, ADHD & Twice-Exceptional Profiles in Group Settings. Unpack complex behaviour and profiles with compassion. Learn proactive strategies to reduce distress and increase engagement. 

For a more detailed outline on the topics discussed at each session please click here.

For parents, families and carers of neurodivergent children and teens.

Explore your child’s unique wiring with understanding, hope, and tools to support their thriving. These sessions are relational, affirming, and grounded in lived experience and evidence-based practice. Build a comprehensive understanding of your child to develop a strategic plan of support across all areas of your child’s life: home, school, community, leisure and within the NDIS.

Attendance at both days is recommended, but not required.

Cost $15 per day 

December 15
Session 1: Understanding the NDIS & Navigating Supports as a Family Cut through the jargon and learn how to access and work with the NDIS to best support your child and family. 
Session 2: Sensory Regulation reducing meltdowns Understand sensory processing and learn practical ways to support regulation, reduce meltdowns, and create a calm home environment.
 
December 16
Session 3: Social Development Through a Neuroaffirming Lens. Reframe how we view friendships and ‘social skills’ to align with your child’s neurodiversity, and learn how to support healthy connections.  
Session 4: Understanding Autism, PDA, ADHD & Giftedness in Family Life. Learn about complex profiles of Neurodiversity, and how to adjust expectations, routines and language to lower stress and support autonomy.
Session 5: Education & Advocacy for Your Neurodivergent Child. Get equipped to communicate with schools, advocate for accommodations, and work with educators as a team.

For neurodivergent people aged 13+

Celebrate your neurodivergence, deepen your self-understanding, and connect with a community that sees and values you. Each session invites reflection, identity building, and practical strategies for self-advocacy on five different key life areas. Join a presenter with lived experience of neurodiversity.

Neuro-affirming, inclusive environment: Seating arrangements will be flexible, sensory regulation tools and roaming welcomed, and no pressure to stay stationary.

Attendance at all five session is encouraged but not required.

Cost $5 per session 

August 8: What is the NDIS & How Can It Support Me?
Learn how the NDIS can support your goals and identity, how to access it, and how to advocate for services that affirm your needs.

August 15: Learning, Education & Work as a Neurodivergent Person
Unpack your strengths and challenges in education or employment settings and find strategies that work for your brain. 

August 22: Managing Sensory Overload & Building Self-Regulation
Discover your sensory profile and build a toolkit of supports to help you feel safe, calm and in control, and reduce frequency of overwhelm.

August 29: Friendship, Relationships & Social Life
Explore what connection means to you, and how to create social interactions that are respectful, joyful and on your terms. Explore the concept of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) and how to reduce self-sabotaging through perceptions driven by fear, and increase self-confidence.

September 5: Self-Understanding, Identity & Advocacy
Learn about neurodivergent identity, how to advocate for your needs, and how to unmask safely in affirming environments. Explore different profiles of neurodiversity including Autism, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), ADHD, and specific learning disabilities such as Dysgraphia, dyslexia and dyscalculia, and how to work with your particular neurology to thrive in the community.