A dedicated space that centres your neuroaffirming learning
Why this group?
As therapists, allied health practitioners, and early childhood specialists, you spend your weeks holding space for others. This group offers a dedicated place each month for you to debrief, unpack your concerns, and ask the tricky questions that are hard to ask.
We address the real-world challenges from a neuroaffirming perspective, while building confidence to integrate neuroaffirming practices into daily practice. This is a space where your neuroaffirming learning journey is centred. We move beyond standard frameworks by using credible developmental frameworks and my Neurodevelopmental Circle of Needs (NCN) model.
I created this Neuroaffirming Professional Reflective Practice Group for those who want a dedicated environment to unlearn, relearn, grow, and transform their professional approach to become truly neuroaffirming. This group is a dedicated, confidential space designed to:
- Bridge theory into practice with clear, neuroaffirming steps for daily practice
- Equip you with neuroaffirming tools and frameworks that are actionable and practical
- Pinpoint critical gaps in standard support and map out actionable steps for meaningful, neuroaffirming change
- Address the tension between neuroaffirming values and normative system demands
Capped at 12
This small group is a great way to deep dive into nuanced, specialised neuroaffirming concepts, strategies and skills.
Practical & Actionable
Thoroughly unpack actionable steps toward becoming more neuroaffirming in everyday practice.
Collaborative space
The themes, pace, and focus areas are continuously shaped by your feedback, your capacity, and your real-time needs.
CPD you can claim
One claimable hour per session, which is six claimable hours per cycle and twelve claimable yours per year.
The details
Runs for: 6 sessions per cycle, with 2 cycles per year
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Online
Places: Capped at 12
Recordings: Recordings are provided of Kate presenting at the start of each session which allows you to rewatch the neuroaffirming concepts the group is learning. Note: the remainder of the session will not be recorded for privacy
CPD: One claimable hour per session
Facilitator: Kate Donohue, Neurodevelopmental Consultant, Autistic lived-experience researcher and Director of Neurodivergent Education
What we work through
Together, we will move beyond standard normative models to explore the intersection of neurodivergent development and thriving through the lens of my Neurodevelopmental Circle of Needs (NCN) model.
NCN is grounded in developmental science and 25 years of experience with neurodivergent individuals, their families and their therapeutic and educational teams.
My model integrates neuroaffirming tools, practices and principles with core developmental frameworks like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model. My approach helps identify unaddressed needs and addressgaps in meeting neurodivergent needs and define actionable steps to support neurodivergent individuals.
Using the NCN model, we collaboratively unpack the layers and look past surface-level "behaviours". We look at the child’s needs through a neurodevelopmental lens and how they interact with the world through their neurodivergent nervous system, sensory system, cognitive processing and values system.
We consider the impacts of direct influences such as school, family and community as well as broader social and cultural structures such as ableism, capitalism and childism.
This reflective practice group is designed for
dedicated early childhood specialists, therapists and allied health professionals who want to incorporate neuroaffirming perspectives and deeper nuance to their existing therapeutic toolkit.
Experience neuroaffirming practices
This Neuroaffirming Professional Reflective Practice Group is intentionally designed to be flexible, emergent, and completely respectful of your energy levels. The foundations of neuroaffirming practice are integrated into how this group is designed to give you a felt sense and experience of neuroaffirming practice in action. We will co-create a space that adapts to the real-time needs of the group.
If your capacity is low right now, please know that you can show up exactly as you are, with your camera off, eating your snacks, or simply listening in the background. Or you may already be full of questions and ready to actively unpack, reflect and learn.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Hello, I'm Kate!
As therapists, allied health professionals, educators and supporters of neurodivergent people and their families we can have a profound impact on their quality of life. Unfortunately, our degrees do not include neuroaffirming care, knowledge or practice so we have to find this on our own. However it can be very confronting to address normative biases in real time as the neurodiversity movement has raised the bar for providing neuroaffirming care. The neurodiversity movement is relatively new so keeping up with the evolving landscape can be confusing, confronting and appear contradictory. I have created this group as a space where you can ask the tricky questions and analyse these complex dynamics with me.
Together we learn HOW to actively contribute towards neurodivergent people being understood, valued, and supported to flourish in all areas of life.
In this group I weave together four strands of knowledge from:
- The voices of neurodivergent people and their communities
- Lived experience as a multi-neurodivergent person and parent of grown up neurodivergent children
- Co-leader of Autistic lived experience research at Flinders University
- 25 years of directly supporting neurodivergent people and their networks as a consultant, educator, key worker and support worker
Neuroaffirming Reflective Practice
The group is capped at twelve so there is room for everyone to share, reflect and learn deeply.
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