Programs and Workshops
I offer evidence-informed programs and workshops designed to support school-aged children, parents, and educators. Explore what’s available, whether you’re a parent wanting practical strategies you can work through at your own pace or a school looking for a teacher-led program.
Foundations of Thriving: Parent Workshop Series
Support your child to thrive by deepening understanding, building confidence, and fostering self-advocacy.
The Foundations of Thriving series is a self-paced, online parent workshop designed to help parents:
Understand neurodivergence and how it shapes daily life
Learn when and how to share this understanding with their child
Build skills that nurture self-awareness, confidence, and advocacy
What’s Included
27 minutes of practical, expert-led video guidance
Downloadable resources, including:
Reflection worksheets
Conversational scripts for talking about neurodivergence
Book recommendations
Activity ideas to help your child identify and celebrate their strengths
What You’ll Learn
Module 1 – Holding Space & Understanding Neurodivergence
By the end of this module, parents will be able to:
Reflect on their child’s unique journey and appreciate that every path is different
Recognise their child’s strengths and challenges and understand how these shape daily life
Understand key aspects of neurodivergent profiles
Explore and validate their own feelings while supporting their child
Module 2 – Sharing & Awareness
By the end of this module, parents will be able to:
Understand the role of awareness and why talking with their child about neurodivergence matters
Validate feelings of uncertainty, worry, or doubt around sharing this information
Use strengths-focused approaches to have empowering conversations with their child
Apply practical strategies to share information in an age-appropriate, supportive way
Module 3 – Building Self-Awareness, Confidence & Advocacy
By the end of this module, parents will be able to:
Understand why self-awareness, self-confidence, and advocacy matter, and how small everyday steps make a difference
Support their child’s self-awareness using practical strategies to notice strengths, challenges, and needs
Encourage their child’s self-confidence through affirming identity and celebrating progress
Foster self-advocacy skills, guiding children to express preferences and make choices
Please note: Due to the digital nature of this content, purchases are non-refundable.
In My Shoes
A whole-class, teacher led social inclusion program for Year 3 and 4 mainstream classrooms
In My Shoes is a strengths-based program that celebrates difference, builds empathy, and strengthens classroom belonging. Designed with a deep understanding of how autistic students experience school, it supports meaningful participation and connectedness for autistic students and their peers—helping classrooms become spaces where everyone feels understood, valued, and included.
What In My Shoes Aims to Do
The program supports students to:
Understand differences in how peers experience autism and school
Recognise their own strengths and differences, and see these in others
Confidently notice when someone needs help, offer support, and ask for help themselves
Experience stronger feelings of acceptance, respect, and belonging
Strengthen empathy and increase everyday helping and inclusive behaviours
At its heart, In My Shoes is about helping children understand one another—and giving them practical tools to turn that understanding into action.
Why “In My Shoes”?
The program teaches perspective-taking and social problem-solving through a simple framework:
LOOK → THINK → DECIDE
Students learn to:
Notice body language and contextual cues
Consider what someone else might be thinking or feeling
Decide on a supportive course of action
This gives children a clear, repeatable way to include and support peers in everyday classroom situations.
What’s Included
Structured whole-class program delivered by the classroom teacher
“Ready-to-go” resources: manual, lesson plans, interactive worksheets, and video resources
Teacher training and implementation guidance
Peer skill-building components
Active parent involvement
Whole-school activity ideas to reinforce learning and culture
In My Shoes is designed to be embedded into everyday classroom practice—not delivered as a one-off or external add-on.
How It’s Different
Grounded in scientific theory and evidence
Autism-specific and neurodiversity-affirming
Strengths-based approach
Developed in consultation with teachers, allied health professionals, parents, principals, and learning support coordinators
Delivered whole-class by teachers, not pull-out models
Holistic, multi-system approach across classroom, home, and school environments
Aligned with curriculum priorities and general capabilities
In My Shoes complements existing pastoral care, buddy systems, and whole-school wellbeing initiatives while contributing to a positive, inclusive school culture.
Evidence & Impact
The In My Shoes program has been very well received by teachers, parents, and school leaders. Pilot data provides preliminary evidence that the program improves participation and school connectedness for autistic students and their peers.
Feedback from the pilot has also informed refinements and shaped future iterations of the program.
Building on this work:
A doctoral student at Northumbria University is adapting the program to support all neurodivergent learners and ensure cultural relevance for the UK.
We are recruiting a research student in Australia to continue the next phase locally.
The next iteration will expand to support a broader range of neurodivergent students.
The long term goal is to develop a scalable, research-informed inclusion framework that can be implemented widely across schools.
