Autistic Connections Group
Who is this group for?
This group is about connection, rest, and support. You will learn more about your Autistic or AuDHD experiences and how you could build your life around your needs.
This is a space where you can show up as you are and feel understood and less alone in your experiences.
You do not need a formal diagnosis to belong here. You might be newly identifying, self-identified, questioning, or years into understanding yourself. All of that is welcome.
1.5 hours/session
1 evening session/week for 8 weeks
5-10 participants
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Supported Access — $50/session ($400 total)
For people with limited financial security or little/no financial safety net.
Choose this tier if the standard rate would make participating difficult or not possible.
Sustainable Access — $75/session ($600 total)
This rate reflects the true cost of offering the group and helps make the work sustainable.
Choose this tier if you can comfortably meet your basic needs and pay the standard rate.
Community Care — $100/session ($800 total)
Choose this tier if you have greater financial security and can comfortably contribute more.
This tier helps support Autistic participants with less financial security and helps create lower-cost spaces to support broader community work.
There is no proof or explanation required. You know your situation best.
If you’re unsure which tier fits best, you’re welcome to email me, and I’ll be happy to help you think it through.
If the Supported Access tier continues to be a barrier to participation, please reach out. Depending on circumstances, I may be able to offer a lower cost.
Session Topics
Autistic Identity
Exploring what it means to understand yourself through an Autistic or AuDHD lens, including later-in-life self-identification, identity, belonging, grief, relief, and self-understanding.
Internalized Ableism
Noticing the messages we’ve absorbed about productivity, independence, functioning, and worth, and beginning to question which of those beliefs actually belong to us.
Connection & Relationships
Exploring Autistic ways of connecting, communicating, setting boundaries, navigating conflict, and building relationships where we can feel understood without having to perform.
Rejection Sensitivity
Making sense of burnout, chronic overwhelm, reduced capacity, and recovery, with a focus on reducing demands, honouring limits, and building more sustainable ways of living.
Autistic Rest
Exploring what actually helps us recharge and feel more like ourselves, while noticing the barriers that can make rest difficult to access. We’ll work on identifying rest that works with our nervous systems and real-life circumstances.
Sensory Experiences
Exploring sensory overload and sensory joy, and how we can better honour our individual sensory needs. We’ll talk about reconnecting to ourselves and our unique sensory experiences
Masking
Exploring how burnout can grow from masking, overload, and living within systems that ask more of us than our nervous systems can sustainably hold. We’ll also look at what care and support can look like when some demands can’t simply be removed.
Closing
Reflecting on what we’ve learned from ourselves and each other, what we want to carry forward, and how we might continue building lives that feel more supportive and more our own.
Themes Throughout:
Understanding and preventing Autistic burnout
Self- compassion
Connection
Later in life Autistic identification
Self-understanding
Normalizing Autistic and AuDHD experiences
Learning about your needs
Interested in being notified about future groups? Feel free to fill out this interest form, and you will be notified when a group is going to run. This is not a sign-up form.