7 modules, 63 lessons, 4½ hours of video
Follow the whole course step by step, or start with what matters most today. Every lesson has the video and the full workbook text, with reflection questions and progress tracking.
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A welcome to the course and how to use it: no deadlines, no targets, just a way into the framework.
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- Welcome and how this course works (1 min read + video)
Module 1: Understanding Autistic Experience: A Relational, Ecosystemic View
Begin with a shift in worldview: how monotropism, the double empathy problem, the ever-changing Autistic self, lilipadding and Autistic culture explain what is often mistaken for difficulty.
- See Autistic attention, communication and identity from the inside
- Replace "how do we change them?" with "how do they experience the world?"
- Understand why many "problems" are really mismatches between people and environments
See the 8 lessons
- Introduction to this module (2 min read + video)
- Monotropism: Understanding Autistic Attention (2 min read)
- The Double Empathy Problem: Communication is Mutual (3 min read)
- The Autistic Self: Living in Constant Transformation (2 min read)
- Lilipadding: Navigating Life Through Islands of Safety (1 min read)
- Autistic Culture: A Community (1 min read)
- The Foundation for Everything That Follows (1 min read)
- Reflections and shared understanding (3 min read)
Module 2: Identity, Language, and Disability Models: Reclaiming Autistic Selfhood
Explore identity-first language, neurodivergence as a socio-political identity, why functioning labels harm, and how the social model and neuronormativity shape everyday life.
- Choose language that respects Autistic identity
- Question functioning labels and diagnosis as gatekeepers
- Understand low-demand approaches and why belonging comes before behaviour
See the 12 lessons
- Introduction to this module (1 min read + video)
- Identity-First Language: Naming Ourselves on Our Own Terms (1 min read)
- Neurodivergence as a Socio-Political Identity, Not a Diagnostic Category (1 min read)
- Functioning Labels: Tools of Normativity, Not Understanding (2 min read)
- The Social Model of Disability: Where the Real Barriers Live? (2 min read)
- Next Steps: Moving Beyond the Social Model of Disability (2 min read)
- Neuronormativity: The Hidden Architecture of Society (1 min read)
- Why Low-Demand Approaches Support The Whole Family (2 min read)
- The Politics of Diagnosis: Who Gets to Belong? (1 min read)
- Identity in Motion: The Autistic Self and the Fluidity of Becoming (1 min read)
- Belonging Before Behaviour (1 min read)
- Reflections and shared understanding (3 min read)
Module 3: Sensory and Emotional Landscapes: Interoception, Regulation, and the Bodymind
Meet the eight-sense world, including interoception and alexithymia, and learn why overload, stimming, co-regulation and safe retreat are regulation, not misbehaviour.
- Recognise the eight senses and how each can show up differently
- Read sensory overload as a nervous-system signal, not defiance
- Build a sensory-competent home and daily life
See the 11 lessons
- Introduction to this module (2 min read + video)
- The Eight-Sense World (9 min read)
- Why It Matters To Understand Sensory Systems (5 min read)
- Understanding Sensory Overload: When the World Gets Too Loud (1 min read)
- Interoception: The Hidden Key to Autistic Emotional Experience (1 min read)
- Co-Regulation: Calm Is Contagious When It Is Safe (1 min read)
- Stimming: Regulation, Not a Problem to Eliminate (1 min read)
- Nesting and Safe Retreat: The Right to Leave the World Behind (1 min read)
- The Sensory–Emotional Loop: Why Everything Connects (1 min read)
- Towards a Sensory-Competent Family Life (1 min read)
- Reflections and shared understanding (3 min read)
Module 4: Autistic Play, and Ways of Learning: Honouring Flow, Curiosity, and Connection
Discover why Autistic play looks different, why repetition is meaningful, and how interest-led, low-pressure learning supports flow, connection and emotional safety.
- Value Autistic play, repetition and interests
- Take the co-regulating adult role with confidence
- Redefine what success looks like
See the 9 lessons
- Why Autistic Play Looks Different (and Why That’s a Good Thing) (1 min read + video)
- Monotropism: The Engine of Autistic Play and Learning (2 min read)
- Repetition Is Meaningful, Not Pointless (1 min read)
- Interest-Led Learning Is Not a Reward System (1 min read)
- Parallel Play, Solitary Play, and Autistic Sociality (1 min read)
- The Role of the Co-Regulating Adult (1 min read)
- Play, Learning, and Emotional Safety (1 min read)
- Reframing Outcomes: What Success Really Looks Like (1 min read)
- Reflections and shared understanding (3 min read)
Module 5: Burnout, Overload, and the Crisis of Connection
Understand Autistic burnout as an ecosystemic crisis of connection: how it shows up, how it differs from tiredness, how AuDHD changes it, and how reconnection heals.
- Spot burnout early, including atypical presentations
- Understand the three forms of loss
- Support recovery through reconnection, not pressure
See the 7 lessons
- Introduction to this module (2 min read + video)
- The Ecosystem of Burnout: Beyond Individual Explanations (2 min read)
- Atypical Burnout: When Burnout Doesn’t Look “Burnt Out” (1 min read)
- Burnout as Disconnection: The Three Forms of Loss (3 min read)
- Burnout and AuDHD: When Two Attentional Styles Collide (1 min read)
- Healing Burnout: Reconnection as the Core Practice (2 min read)
- Reflections and shared understanding (3 min read)
Module 6: Trauma, Safety, and the Emotional Environment: Rebuilding the Conditions for Autistic Thriving
See how cumulative sensory, relational and systemic trauma shapes the nervous system, and how boundaries, predictability and a trauma-informed emotional environment rebuild safety.
- Understand trauma as an ecosystemic experience
- See boundaries as protective, not punitive
- Build safety as the foundation of everything
See the 7 lessons
- Introduction to this module (1 min read + video)
- Trauma as an Ecosystemic Experience (4 min read)
- The Role of Burnout in Trauma (1 min read)
- Why Boundaries Are Protective, Not Punitive (1 min read)
- Building a Trauma-Informed Emotional Environment (2 min read)
- Safety as the Foundation of Everything (1 min read)
- Reflections and shared understanding (3 min read)
Module 7: Learning From Autistic Community: Culture, Connection, and Collective Wisdom
Learn from Autistic culture, collective knowledge and relational ethics, and imagine a future of co-creation, dignity and neurodivergent thriving.
- Value Autistic community as a living archive of knowledge
- Learn relational ethics from Autistic spaces
- Connect families to community, and to a future of belonging
See the 8 lessons
- Introduction to this module (3 min read)
- Collective Knowledge: The Autistic Community as a Living Archive (1 min read)
- Learning Relational Ethics From Autistic Spaces (1 min read)
- Autistic Community as a Source of Healing and Resistance (1 min read)
- Why Families Need Autistic Community Too (1 min read)
- Co-Creation: The Future of Neurodivergence Competence (1 min read)
- Toward a Future of Connection, Dignity, and Neurodivergent Thriving (1 min read)
- Reflections and shared understanding (3 min read)
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