PDA Workshop: A Neuroaffirming Approach
When everyday demands become everyday battles, understanding your child's nervous system can change the way you parent, and the way your child experiences the world.
Register now for $49
Does your child make everyday routines feel like a battle?
Do they seem to need you for everything, even when you know they're capable?
Does it feel as though your family revolves around avoiding conflict, negotiating demands or trying to keep everyone regulated?
If you're nodding along, you should know that we support many families like yours.
Whether you're just beginning to explore a PDA profile or have been living it for years, this workshop is designed to help you better understand your child's experience through a neurodiversity affirming lens.
Rather than focusing on changing behaviour, we'll explore what sits beneath it: a deeply sensitive nervous system, an intense drive for autonomy, and why everyday demands can feel overwhelming.
This is a space for parents, caregivers and educators who want understanding, practical strategies and the reassurance that they're on the right parenting path.
What You'll Learn
During this workshop, we'll explore:
A neurodiversity-affirming understanding of PDA: How viewing behaviour through the lens of the nervous system changes everything.
The evolving understanding of PDA: including its origins, it's evidence and why many people call it Pervasive Drive for Autonomy
Why demands are so complex: including internal, external anticipated and perceived demands, and how demand stacking can lead to overwhelm.
Autonomy, regulation & behaviour: why control, equalising behaviours and resistance often reflect a need for safety rather than defiance
Practical, neuroaffirming strategies: to reduce everyday conflict while supporting connection, flexibility and participation.
Small shifts that make a big difference: simple, realistic changes you can implement straight away to create calmer, more connected family life.
Meet Your Presenter
Kate Broderick
Dual qualified Occupational Therapist, Speech Pathologist & mum of 5
Kate is passionate about helping families understand neurodivergent children through a compassionate, evidence-informed and neurodiversity-affirming lens.
Drawing on her clinical expertise, neuroscience, lived experience and years of supporting children and families, Kate helps parents make sense of behaviours that often feel confusing, exhausting or misunderstood. Her teaching blends current research with practical, everyday strategies that families can implement immediately.
Rather than asking,
"How do I stop this behaviour?"
Kate invites parents to ask,
"What is my child's nervous system communicating?"
Because when we understand what's happening beneath the behaviour, everything changes. Parents move from confusion to clarity, from conflict to connection, and from simply managing behaviours to genuinely supporting their child's wellbeing.
