Neurokindred

01/06/2026

🫖Mad Hatters' Tea Party: Mad Autistics Peer Support is on tomorrow-Wednesday 3rd June
Time:
11.00am- 12.30pm (AEST-Brisbane/Syd/Melb/Tas)
10.30am-12.00pm (ACST-Adelaide/NT)
9.00-10.30am (AWST-Perth)

Jacinta & Cindy (chat) will be your facilitators.
Cost: Free
Book online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

Agenda:
Intros and check-ins
Open Discussion on proposed/submitted topic or brought questions, sharings etc from the group
Last 5 minutes Flyers share and close

More Groups:
Neurokindred online calendar link here: https://teamup.com/ksf66azjqz2jdhrh2x

31/05/2026

😍😍😍

There are some FREE tickets for the Autistic Burnout Virtual Conference for TODAY ONLY - for people who really want to attend but cannot afford the ticket.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983718936740?aff=oddtdtcreator

31/05/2026

🐦‍⬛Unleashing the Crone: Autistic WNB+ (40+) Discussion Space is on Wednesday 3rd June
Time:
6-7.30pm (Brisbane, Vic, NSW, Tas- AEST)
5.30-7pm (Adelaide/NT-ACST)
4-5.30pm (Perth-AWST)

Melody Edwardson, Karen Noble and Linda (tech/chat) will be your facilitators
Cost: Free
Group approx: 12
Book online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

Discussion Prompt:
TLDR: The Story of Habitrot
A girl can’t finish her spinning, but a fairy (Habitrot) secretly does it for her, making her look hardworking so she marries well. Then the fairy tells the husband spinning makes women ugly so the girl never has to work again.

Special Interest Share: Tess and Coffee

Description:
Unleashing the Crone is a group for those who have already done much of the early work. You know you are Autistic. You have asked the initial questions. Now you are ready to sit at the fireside with others who want to go deeper into what it means to live this truth, fully and unapologetically.

This is a juicy, nourishing space for alchemizing experience through deep discussion and creative sharing. There is room for stories, poetry, songs, and treasures that sustain and enhance our power. There is also space for somatic exercise, guided meditation, and other body based loveliness so our nervous systems can settle as we go deep.

In Unleashing the Crone, we move beyond embracing Crone energy to wielding it. This is about integration rather than introduction. It is about living sustainably on our own terms with fewer f@cks to give about conventional ways of being. It is about becoming a fierce and rooted force to be reckoned with.

If you would like to submit a topic or resource for discussion please send them through.

More Groups:
Neurokindred online calendar link here: https://teamup.com/ksf66azjqz2jdhrh2x

31/05/2026

🧶Crafting Autistic Wellbeing PM is on Tuesday 2nd June

Time:
6.00-7.30pm (AEST-QLD/ NSW/VIC/TAS)
5.30-7.00pm (ACST-SA/NT)
4.00-5.30pm (AWST-Perth)

These run on the first Tuesday of the month
Lizzy & Sharni (tech-Linda) will be your co-facilitators.
Cost: Free
Book Online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

Agenda:
Intros: name, pronouns (optional), favourite fibre art or what are you working on right now?

Bring along your WIP and any questions for other fibre artists-lets create and learn together.

Building, colouring, constructing etc are all welcome.

More Groups
Neurokindred online calendar link here: https://teamup.com/ksf66azjqz2jdhrh2x

29/05/2026

This week at Neurokindred we have the following:
Autistic peer-led:
-peer support groups
-discussion groups
-SpIns group & play dates
Autistic professional-led:
-group sessions
All peer-led & professional-led groups are free*.
Book online: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

🔮Energy Healing for Autistic Adults with Niki Jones of Healing Craft Coaching
When: Monday 1st June
Always: First Monday
Time: 9-10am (Brisbane-AEST)

❤️‍🔥The Persephone Circle: Autistic WNB+ with Complex Trauma with Linda, Jess & Cindy
When: Mon 1st June
Focus: ✂️Making Space
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)
Always: First Monday

🧶Crafting Wellbeing: Fibre Arts Play Date with Sharni & Lizzy
When: Tues 2nd June
Always: First Tuesday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🫖Mad Hatter’s Tea Party: Mad Autistics Peer Support Group with Jacinta & Cindy
When: Wednesday 3rd June
Always: First Wednesday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🐦‍⬛Unleashing the Crone: Autistic WNB+ (40+) Discussion Space with Melody Edwardson & Karen Noble
Topic: The story of Habitrot
When: Wed 3rd June
Always: First Wednesday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🖋️Penning Wellbeing Circle: Writing Play Date with Jade Lee
Topic: Mother/feminine archetypes
When: Thurs 4th June
Always: First & Third Thursday
Time: 9-10.30am (Brisbane-AEST)

⚡️Blaze of Glory: Autistic Elders Discussion Group with Deb Hunter & Karen Noble
Topic: Pain & Autistic Elders experiences (Inc management & changes over time)
When: Thursday 4th June
Always: First Thursday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🕹️Video Game Hangout with Mason
When: Saturday 6th June
Always: First Saturday
Time: 1.00-2.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🕯️Autistic Lived Experience Peer Professionals Support Group with Deb Hunter & Cindy
When: Saturday 6th June
Always: First Saturday
Time: 4.30-6pm (Brisbane-AEST)

Starting this month:
🎲Gaming Autistic Wellbeing: TTRPG with Gamemaster Asher
When: Fri 19th June
Time: 1-3pm (Brisbane-AEST)
Always: First & Third Friday

💞Self Compassion: Study Hub & Group Practice Space with Melody Edwardson of Wellbeing Wise
Course: Aspect Self Compassion for Autistic Adults Program
When: Tues 23rd June
Always: Second & Fourth Tuesday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)
Round 4: group max 25
Book online: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

EOI: linda@neurokindred.com

Neurokindred Peer Groups calendar link: https://teamup.com/ksf66azjqz2jdhrh2x

*All Neurokindred Peer Groups are Autistic-led, lived experience centred and free of charge. We are delivering some of our peer support programs with the NDIA Peer Support and Capacity Building Grant for the NDIA.

29/05/2026

🔮Energy Healing Session for Autistic adults with Niki Jones is on Monday.
When: Monday 1st June
Time:
9am-10.00am (Brisbane, Vic, NSW, Tas-AEST)
8.30-9.30am (Adelaide, NT-ACST)
7am-8.00am (Perth-AWST)

These will be on the first Monday of every month
🧙🏻‍♀️ Niki of Healing Craft Coaching will be your facilitator
Cost: Free
Book online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

About the session:
This is a gentle space to pause, ground, and reconnect with yourself through Reiki and shamanic energy work. Niki is a certified Reiki Practitioner trained in the Shamanic Arts.

This is an accessible session - you don't need any prior experience with energy work. You can have your camera on or off, participate lying down or sitting, and take what works for you. Niki will guide the session and create space for whatever your body needs.

-Presence is participation - no requirement for cameras
-Chat communication will be read aloud
-You're welcome to join and simply soak up the energies being channeled for the group
-If you'd like Niki to focus on specific areas but aren't comfortable sharing in session, you can message or email her beforehand

What to bring:
A comfortable space where you can sit or lie down
Blanket, weighted pillows, or cushions for comfort
Water to stay hydrated
Whatever helps you feel safe and grounded (stuffed toy, fidget, crystals, etc.)
Optional spiritual supports (crystals, oracle cards, candles, sacred items, photos of ancestors or guides - whatever resonates with your practice)

26/05/2026

💡Autistic Social Entrepreneurs Discussion Group is on Thursday 28th May
Time:
7.00-8.15PM (Bris/Syd/Melb/TAS-AEST)
6.30-7.45PM (Adelaide/Darwin-ACST)
5.00-6.15pm (Perth-AWST)

These run on the Fourth Thursday of the month
Linda & Jess (alt) will be your facilitators.
Cost: Free
Book online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

Agenda (see attached Visual Story):
-Acknowledgement of Country & 'Sharing the Air' Group Guideline
-Intros (oral, chat or 'no thank you')-name, pronouns (optional), your social enterprise or idea.
-Why you came today (new)
-Has anything happened in your social enterprise in the last two weeks you'd like to share?
-Open Discussion

Suggested Prompts-
The crowded niche: A crowded space isn't a verdict on whether there's room for you. It's a signal that there's demand.
- How competitive is the space you're in, or want to be in?
-Does it matter that others are already doing similar work? Why, or why not?
-Where do you already notice you're different from the others in that space?

-Flyer for ASE shared at 5 mins before the end and Neurokindred other groups and projects promo

More in depth information (can stop here if TMI):
Quote: Dr Sharon Zivkovic (2024) argues “ Autistic owned and led businesses that align with the mission of the neurodiversity movement are by definition social enterprises”.

Inspired by Dr Sharon Zivkovic’s inaugural and amazing ‘Program for Autistic Innovators, Systemisers & Social Entrepreneurs’ (link below), we started this Discussion space as an addition to the developing ecosystem for supporting Autistic Social Entrepreneurs.
We welcome alumni of the course and Autistic Social Entrepreneurs at any stage on their journey.

This is a community space for sharing about our projects/businesses/innovations/products/ideas, helpful resources and our unique ways of working.

This group will be co-created and is focused on shared community learning and peer support. It will be evolving in response to the needs of the group as all Neurokindred groups do-so please think about what you need from this space and also what support you can offer to others.
We are all in this together.

Centre for Autistic Social Entrepreneurship Network: https://www.goodmarket.global/autisticentrepreneur/network

25/05/2026

I thought I’d share a little about why peer groups focused on these particular intersecting experiences are so very necessary.

Religious trauma takes place in relationship, in community, in families-usually unidentified neurodivergent families-places where betrayal cuts deep and trust in others is forever affected. As such it is ‘in relationship’ that reclaiming and healing needs to occur.

Whilst I believe therapeutic work is powerful and needed-I trully feel the corrective group/community relational experience is incredibly necessary. It certainly was and is for me.

But what can that look like, feel like, be like-how can ‘counter-conditions’ be created so maybe the possibility of connecting can occur? Can community exist without coercion, without ‘group think’, without surveillance, without obligation?

Peer groups offer the flattened power structure that can be conducive to these conditions. Facilitated space where everyone is unpacking and detangling.
A shared experience of deconstruction and reclaimation.
And memes-always relatable memes, and songs and art that help lighten and ground.

Those are some initial thoughts and I have shared more here: https://youtu.be/7khfZaK1vkY?si=XtO448vHwwjObI7_

🤘🏽Stay Blasphemous: Autistics with Religious Trauma Peer Support Group
When: Thursday 28th May
Time:
9-10am (Brisbane/Melbourne/Sydney/TAS-AEST)
8.30-9.30am (Adelaide-ACST)
7-8am (Perth-AWST)

Always: Fourth Thursday of the month
Facilitators: Linda & Niki Jones of Healing Craft Coaching
Cost: Free
Book online: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

24/05/2026

🫶🏽Tapping Topics: EFT Tapping for NDs on specific topics is on Wednesday 27th May
Topic: Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

Time:
1-2.30pm (AEST-Brisbane/Syd/Melb/Tas)
12.30-2pm (ACST-Adelaide/NT)
11-12.30pm (AWST-Perth)

These run on the fourth Wednesday of the month
Mental Health Specialist & EFT Practitioner, Melody Edwardson will be your facilitator.
Cost: Free
Book online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

These will be recorded for people who cannot attend live.
Melody will:
-share on the topic and how EFT can help
-discuss ND adaptations
-demonstrate
-then support group practice.

Coming topics:
Please send requests for future session focus.

More Groups:
Neurokindred online calendar version here: https://teamup.com/ksf66azjqz2jdhrh2x

24/05/2026

🌈Colour Me Autistic is on Wednesday 27th May

Time:
11am-12pm (Brisbane/Syd/Melb/Tas- AEST)
10.30-11.30pm (Adelaide/NT-ACST)
9.00am-10.00am (Perth-AWST)

Linda will be your facilitator
Cost: Free
Book Online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/)

Description:
A gentle body-doubling colouring-in space.
Join us for some co-regulation and mindful colouring.
Bring along your colouring books, tablets, or sketchpad and your pens, paints, or pastels.
You can colour in premade pages or create your own art – whatever you prefer.
If you would like to build, construct, craft or any other activity-you are welcome to join us.

What to Expect:
Gentle verbal or chat welcome (depends on facilitator)
Share your colouring project for this session (optional)
A visible timer will be on screen to help with pacing.

Every 15 minutes:
Facilitator will check chat
Gentle prompt to stretch, hydrate, or take a bathroom break if needed.

5 minutes before end:
Flyer for next session
Share your creations (optional)

Main room: Vibes and Chat only (quiet colour-shared energy)

On request: If you would like a 'talking and colour' break out space please let the facilitator know.

What to bring:
Colouring books, tablets, or sketchpad
Pens, paints, or pastels
Any premade colouring-in pages you’d like to work on