The Springboard Series
Supporting Your Child with Relationships and Sex Education with Alice Hoyle
Part of The Springboard Series, helping families move forward with knowledge and confidence.
A free webinar for parents, families and carers. Book your place here.
Wednesday 28th January, 10am-11.30am
Part of The Springboard Series from The Springfields Academy. Helping families move forward with knowledge and confidence.
Talking about sex and relationships can feel uncomfortable, especially when supporting a neurodivergent teenager. Many parents worry about when to start, what to say, or how to keep their child safe while still supporting their developing independence. This session will explore how to talk openly and positively about healthy intimate relationships, consent, boundaries, and bodies. We’ll look at why this topic is essential, and the key messages your child needs to learn, including using the body-based “comfort, stretch, panic” model to support interoception and personal safety and a simple ethical framework for relationships. You’ll gain reassurance, confidence, and practical tools to help you navigate these conversations at home.
Alice Hoyle (www.senseandconnect.co.uk) is an author and Education Consultant specialising in all aspects of Relationships, Sex, & Health Education (RSHE) and Sensory Wellbeing. She is AuADHD as are 2/3 of her daughters so she has lived experience of supporting this kind of work in her own family, as well as over two decades of experience of working with teenagers, children, parents and practitioners in this area.
The Springboard Series
How to raise a happy autistic child with Jessie Hewitson
The Springboard Series: Helping families move forward with knowledge and confidence
A free webinar for parents, families and carers on Wednesday 8th October at 10am via Microsoft Teams.
In this session, best-selling author Jessie Hewitson will explore:
barriers to happiness
why the current parenting norms aren't working for autistic kids
why this isn't inevitable and what parents/carers can do
how to help your child with anxiety
how to help your child get appropriate support at school
how to help your child access healthcare
Jessie Hewitson is a journalist and author. She has written the best-selling book, How to Raise a Happy Autistic Child and How to Raise a Happy ADHD Child.
She is also the contributing Money editor at The i Paper. A late-diagnosed AuDHD woman, she lives in north London with her husband and neurodivergent kids.
Further details are on the flyer below. Book your place here.
An Autistic Perspective on Anxiety and OCD with Dean Beadle
The Springboard Series: Helping families move forward with knowledge and confidence
A free webinar for parents, families and carers on Thursday 22nd May at 10am via Microsoft Teams.
In this practical, thought-provoking and humorous webinar, autistic speaker Dean Beadle will offer practical ways to support autistic young people through anxiety. He will share his personal experiences of OCD and what he has found to be helpful. He will finish by looking at autistic joy, a hugely important part of autistic wellbeing.
Dean Beadle has spent twenty years delivering conference keynotes, inset training sessions and parents’ talks around his experiences of being autistic. He has spoken at events across the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Dean is patron of three autism-related charities.
Further details are on the flyer below. Book your place here.
