About The PDA Space Portal

Find Your PDA Community

For families looking for different ways to approach PDA, with live expert webinars, Time with Our Village sessions, practical resources and a growing library of webinars to explore at your own time and pace.

£15 a month.

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Why Join Us?

As a family, you may be experiencing a range of challenges and feeling unsure about how to approach things differently.

Understanding PDA can mean rethinking some of the parenting approaches we may have previously relied on, with a greater focus on connection, collaboration and understanding what might be happening underneath.

Our Meet Your Village sessions give you space to explore what’s happening for your family, problem solve together and consider different approaches that may help.

Alongside this, you’ll have expert webinars, practical resources and a growing library to explore at your own time and pace.

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What You Get

Live Workshops

Expert and lived experience guidance

Time with our Village

Connections, validation, problem solving

Resource Library

7 Practical PDA Tips

7 Wellbeing videos

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Our Approach

We meet families where they are, with understanding and validation for what they are experiencing.
Through a therapeutic and neuroaffirming approach.

We explore what may be happening underneath and find practical ways to build connection, collaboration and a calmer family life.

Who It’s For

If you’re looking for different approaches and practical ways to support your family

Wanting to build greater connection, collaboration and understanding with your young person

Wanting to find your village and connect with others walking a similar path

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Pre-recorded Webinars Coming Up

January 2025

Clare Miller

Maths Positive

LIVE WORKSHOP: Joanne Riordan | Executive Functioning and Low Demand

LIVE WORKSHOP: Kay Aldred | Embodiment and Trauma

In this workshop, Kay discusses:
- What wellbeing is
- What embodiment is and why it is important to consider
- Why transitions are hard – especially concerning PDA
- Strategies and suggestions of how to support family well-being during times of change

From an embodiment perspective, demands put us into sympathetic activation – so the key as a family is to build the capacity to tolerate sympathetic activation. Hence doing exercises more before transition.

LIVE WORKSHOP COMING UP: Libby Hill | Introduction to Gestalt Language Processing

In this workshop, Libby will discuss the differences between the two ways and show you how to work out whether your child is a Gestalt Language Processor (GLP) and how best to support these GLPs.

The session will also cover the implications of using delayed echolalia rather than the typical bottom up approach.

LIVE WORKSHOP COMING UP: Chris Bonnello | Being your authentic autistic self

This session is aimed to be helpful to autistic young people with self-esteem or self-perception struggles, those wanting more joy in their lives, and parents wanting to support their children becoming their best autistic selves.

PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR COMING UP: Hannah Harris | End of term support

In this webinar, Hannah addresses some of the questions that families could ask teachers before the end of term to support the transition from one year group to the next.

PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR COMING UP: Corrina Wood | Recognising the Demands of Transitions and Finding Ways to Reduce the Pressure

In this webinar, Corinna will explain how transitioning from one activity to another is an Executive Function, and a demand in itself. The workshop will outline how every transition is loaded with demands. Corrina will look at how we can break down transitions and reduce the number of demands, from getting up in the morning to coming off the Xbox! Her workshop will help you understand and manage transitions better.

PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR COMING UP: Judith Rayner | Regulating Ourselves Using Breath

In this webinar, Judith shares simple tools and smalls changes in how we breathe, to bring our nervous systems back to balance in challenging times.

This presentation is ideal for parents or anyone dealing with difficult situations needing to find ways of calming the nervous system and reducing stress and anxiety.

PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR COMING UP: Amanda Hind | What are Reasonable Adjustments & What is Reasonable? Let’s look at equality vs. equity!

In this webinar Amanda Hind (Educational Consultant) discusses her experience as a SENDCo and Teacher and her personal experience as a parent.

Amanda shares her wealth of knowledge and explores how best to meet neurodivergent children’s needs and the reasonable adjustments children may benefit from.

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