Parent Group & Workshop Survey

Parenting a neurodivergent child can be a lot to hold, and the right group at the right moment can make a real difference. We're planning what to offer next, and we want it built around what would actually help you — not our best guess.

This takes about 4–5 minutes and adjusts to your answers, so you won't be asked about things that don't apply. Be honest: "not for me" is genuinely useful, and tells us as much as a yes. We're grateful for your time and your candor.

Group Types

We tend to run two different styles of group and are interested in hearing from you about your interest and preference in both styles. Both types of groups usually have a component of each aspect, but lean more heavily in one direction.

Connection & support — talk, share, feel less alone. The facilitator guides discussion; the value is the other parents.

Skills-building — structured, focused on learning specific strategies or information. The facilitator teaches tools and material, and provides resources.

Rows	I would sign up	Maybe	No for me
Caregiver Burnout: A welcoming space to pause and tend to your own wellbeing, without judgment or pressure to have it all figured out. Come as you are, depleted or holding on, among people who get it.
Caregiver grief and isolation: Room to name the harder, often unspoken feelings — grief for the path you imagined, shame you didn't ask for, the loneliness of carrying it — among people who understand.
Space for Neurodivergent Parents: An affirming space to connect, be understood, and share the real picture of parenting as a neurodivergent person — the mental load, the masking, the moments only another ND parent gets.
Waiting for a child's assessment: Support for the limbo of waiting — the worry, hope, and uncertainty before answers — with others in the same in-between.
Making sense of a new diagnosis: A place to process what a new diagnosis stirs up — relief, grief, questions, a family adjusting — alongside others early in the same journey.
PDA: A space to share life with a PDA / autonomy-driven kid — the daily power struggles, the isolation, the small wins — among parents who truly understand the profile.
Emotion Regulation: Honest conversation about the hardest moments — meltdowns, shutdowns, and the toll they take — with parents who've been in the thick of it.
Late-diagnosed/In between systems youth: Connection for parents of young people who fall between services: sharing what's working, what isn't, and the relief of comparing notes with people who get the "in-between."
Launching into adulthood: Support for the launch years: letting go, adjusting expectations, and the complicated feelings of parenting an adult child still finding their footing — with others at the same threshold.

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Caregiver Burnout: Sustainable ways to protect your own capacity — spotting early warning signs, small recoverable habits, and boundaries that hold under real pressure.
Caregiver grief and isolation: Gentle frameworks for working with grief and self-blame: understanding why these feelings surface and approaches that loosen shame's grip over time.
Space for Neurodivergent Parents: Strategies tuned to how neurodivergent parents actually function: working with executive load and sensory or demand sensitivity, building systems that fit your brain rather than fight it.
Waiting for a child's assessment: What to expect from the assessment process, how to prepare, and what an assessment can and can't tell you, so the wait feels less powerless.
Making sense of a new diagnosis: A grounded orientation to what a diagnosis does and doesn't mean, how to talk about it with your child and family, and where to focus first.
PDA: Low-demand strategies grounded in understanding PDA: why "I won't" often means "I can't," and how to shift from control toward connection, flexibility, and trust.
Emotion Regulation: Practical co-regulation tools: understanding the "why" beneath big reactions and learning concrete ways to de-escalate and support regulation in the moment.
Late-diagnosed/In between systems youth: Concrete approaches for the transition years — building independence and executive-function scaffolding, navigating systems, supporting a late-diagnosed young person toward adulthood.
Launching into adulthood: Practical guidance for the 18+ cliff: benefits and government supports, decision-making and guardianship options, and building independence as school-based supports fall away.

Specialized Groups

We have also run longer, more intensive and specialized workshops to focus on specific populations and presenting issues, such as autistic teens with mental health issues, or transitional age youth heading to post-secondary, and the unique questions and concerns parents usually have in these situations. In these types of workshops, parents get to both share stories, connect and support one another, and access high quality, therapeutic skills-based content for the specific topic being discussed.