Core Values

 

1. Validation: Teen girls to share their own experience and feel validated

2. Social connection: The opportunity to connect with others and make friends

3. To learn skills: nervous system regulation, understanding self and finding their place in the world.

 

Who and why?

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This course is open to high school aged girls and female identifying or non-binary teens. No formal diagnosis of Autism or ADHD is required, it is open to anyone who feels keen to come.

 

Often this population struggle with issues around connecting to their body, sometimes gender, mental and physical health, social interaction and inclusion, and purpose. We want to open a safe space to explore these topics and begin to offer tools and support  to find ease in life, internally and externally. 

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5 week course modules

 

• Each 90 min class involves a short sharing circle and basic somatic practices from HeartMath® and/or Havening® & a learning module (below topics)

 

1. Sharing and getting to know each other, why are we here? What are the participants hoping to learn or experience. Introduce basic Polyvagal theory bell chart.

2. What is Autism, what is ADHD? How do we feel different to the “normal”, what are the gifts and challenges

3. Being a woman: women’s mysteries, menstruation, cyclical nature, creative power. Include discussion around non-binary & other identities

4. Mental Health: understanding anxiety and depression from a polyvagal perspective.  Art, craft or Yoga practice

5. Physical health: looking after our gut, listening to the wisdom of our bodies. Wrapping it up... revision, questions, take-aways. 

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