Circle of Connection E-Course Overview
Explore the vital aspects of meaningful, inclusive connections during festive occasions in our Circle of Connection E-Course. This interactive workshop, designed with a neuro-affirming approach, encourages you to explore therapeutic art practices that identify and promote shared joy, community, and belonging at your upcoming group events – especially over the holidays.
Why This Course?
Social engagements can be both exciting and overwhelming, especially for neurodivergent individuals. This course combines lived experiences and creative expression to help identify your social and sensory needs from a neuro-affirming perspective.
You’ll also learn practical tips for accommodating your neurodivergent loved ones, ensuring that your traditions and events are meaningful, enjoyable, and inclusive for all participants.
Price: $49.00
Create Inclusive Connections: Your Guide to Cultivating Neuro-Affirming Belonging in Celebrations
What Will you learn in Our Circle of Connection E-Course?
Identifying Your Needs: Recognize your personal needs within socio-cultural traditions.
Reframing Connections: View belonging and thriving through a ‘neuro-queer’ lens, encouraging authenticity and understanding.
Exploring Accommodations: Learn about neuro-affirming social and sensory accommodations essential for full participation and enjoyment in group events.
Creative Expression: Create sculptural approximations that resonate with upcoming celebrations and events.
Lived Experience Insights: Examine meaningful accounts that promote inclusion and belonging.
Enhanced Representation: Depict people, places, and objects that enrich your sense of connection.
To fully engage in this course, you’ll need the following materials:
Art Surface: Choose between paper, fabric, or cardboard.
Meaningful Found Items: Collect a small selection of personal items (e.g., seed pods, flowers, LEGO characters, shells, jewelry, crystals).
Drawing Mediums: Be ready with crayons, pens, colored markers, and/or pencils.
Comfort Items: Bring any drinks, snacks, fidgets, or personal accommodations that you need for comfort and participation.
Optional:
Collage items, scissors, and a glue stick for added creativity.
This e-course is available for on-demand download, allowing you to engage with the material at your own pace and in your preferred environment.
Join us in this unique artistic journey to connect, reflect, and create within a supportive community!
This course is part of the neuro-affirming, ARTunement E-Course Series.
E-Course Frequently Asked Questions
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No, this e-course is accessible for all levels of creative confidence!
In all our courses, we focus on connecting with a therapeutic intention, and explore guided tools for expressing our ideas into form.
No art experience necessary!
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Getting started is simple. Simply click on the button to purchase the course, and you’ll be able to log in to our special e-course page with all your course content, ready to go!
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No, this course is created for both wellebing professionals and allies - people who want to learn about and embrace neuro-affirming skills to engage with Autistic and ADHD people.
You could be an educator, support worker, teacher, or simply have a neurodivergent loved one in your life that you’d like to support more inclusively.
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No! Each course includes a simple, suggested materials list for you to use in the course. You may already have some items at home, like paper, pens, scissors, glue or found objects.
In courses that require specific suppliesli watercolours, these can be purchased inexpensively at places like Kmart, Officeworks or online.
If you’re looking to purchase supplies, go for student quality or children’s art mediums, as they’re often inexpensive and still do the job!
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No. Art Therapists are highly trained professionals with a Masters qualification.
You will, however, learn simple creative processes to safely adapt with your neurodivergent clients and loved ones.
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The way all the e-courses are developed are that you engage in all the content yourself, from your own perspective.
This helps show you how achievable creative expression can be, and develop embodied memory of how to engage creatively.
You also have access to this course on demand, so you can watch and participate in the creative experiential several times to develop your own creative confidence.
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No. Each individual requires a unique log-in with your own username and password.
Furthermore, I’m a small biz and this is my intellectual property developed over thousands of hours of education and lived experience, so I ask that you honour my offerings and pay for individual access.
If you manage a team and you’d like to share a course with them, please contact me and we can work something out. I may be able to personally deliver the course online to your team!