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20/01/2026

🧶Crafting Wellbeing AM: Fibre Arts Play Date for Autistic Adults is on tomorrow morning.
When: Wednesday 21st January.
Time:
9-10am (Bris - AEST)
10-11am (Syd/Melb/Tas/Can-AEDT)
9.30-10.40am (Adelaide/Darwin - ACDT)
7-8am(Perth - AWST)

Lizzy is your group facilitator
Always: Third Wednesday of the month
Cost: Free
Questions: linda@neurokindred.com
Book online: http://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.

17/01/2026

This week at Neurokindred we have the following:
Autistic peer-led:
-peer support groups
-discussion groups
-SpIns groups & play dates
Autistic professional-led:
-group practice spaces & drop-ins
All peer-led groups and professional-led group practice spaces & drop-ins are free*.

Please book online for the links: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

🦋Autistic Counsellors & Psychotherapists Peer Support Group
When: Mon 19th January
Always: Third Monday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🧱Building Wellbeing: Lego & Construction Kits SpIns Group with Karen K
When: Tues 20th January
Always: Third Tuesday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🧶Crafting Wellbeing: Fibre Arts Play Date with Lizzy
When: Wed 21st January
Always: Third Wednesday
Time: 9-10am (Brisbane-AEST)

⚔️Age of Valor: Autistic Elders (50+) Peer Support Group with Karen Noble & Linda
When: Wed 21st January
Always: Third Wednesday
Time: 4-5.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🤘🏽Stay Blasphemous: Autistic WNB+ with Religious Trauma with Linda
When: Thursday 22nd January
Always: Fourth Thursday
Time: 9-10am (Brisbane-AEST)

💡Autistic Social Entrepreneurs Discussion Group
When: Thursday 22nd January
Always: Fourth Thursday
Time: 7.30-8.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

📎DE Drop-in with Developmental Educator & Teacher Jade Lee
When: Fri 23rd January
Always: Fourth Friday
Time: 9-11am (Brisbane-AEST)

🙆🏽‍♀️Tap the Week Away: EFT Tapping Group Practice Spaces with Mental Health Specialist Melody Edwardson
When: Fri 23rd January
Always: Fourth Friday
Time: 6-6.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🎩Autistic Men & Non-Binary+ Peer Support Group
When: Sat 24th January
Always: Fourth Saturday
Time: 1-2pm (Brisbane-AEST)

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

Questions: linda@neurokindred.com

Book online: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

*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.

16/01/2026

Welcome Neurokin to the 🦋Autistic Counsellors & Psychotherapists Peer Support Group.

As professionals in the counselling and psychotherapy space we have dedicated ourselves to the healing and support of humanity as well as to the inner work and practice necessary to hold space for others. Through our varied and creative modalities and theories, we aim to ‘bandage the soul’ and empower the individual to continue on their journey in new and positive ways that enhance their quality of life.

Being Autistic in this profession to me has had a mixture of responses, with the negative primarily due to lack of knowledge or old stereotypical understandings. I believe being Autistic makes me a better counsellor. I have ‘studied people’ for years wondering what makes them tick, predicting, revising and predicting all over again.

I also know that many spaces in our profession are not yet safe for disclosure and that many of us do not want to ‘shoot ourselves in the foot’ by revealing our neurodivergence. Hence, this confidential space – a safe little clutch where you can come as you are cameras off, pseudonym, chat only or as seen as you wish to be.

Our goal is to create a supportive community of shared experience and understanding-a place to ask fellow neurokin about their Autistic experience in any area of their life as well as particular challenges in our practice and field. This is not peer supervision but a very deliberate attempt to nurture community and mutual support for our fellow Autistic helpers.

We are so needed in this space, our unique perspectives, our divergent understanding and our capacity to attune are such strengths to support neurodivergent and neurotypical alike. But helpers need a safe space too. A space to be supported and to unmask, to see and hear their experience reflected in others-I hope you’ll join us.

🦋Autistic Counsellors & Psychotherapists Peer Support Group
When: Monday 19th January
Time:
6.00pm-7.30pm (QLD/NSW/Vic/Tas - AEST)
5.30pm-7.00pm (Adelaide/Darwin - ACST)
4.00pm-5.30pm (Perth - AWST)
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free*
Faciltator: Linda
Group size: Approx 12
Always: Third Monday of the month
Questions: linda@neurokindred.com
Book online: http://neurokindred.com/bookings/

Neurokindred Online Calendar: https://teamup.com/ksf66azjqz2jdhrh2x

*Neurokindred peer support groups are offered free of charge. We are proudly delivering projects for the Peer Support and Capacity Building (PSCB) grant for the NDIS.

12/01/2026

🧳Owning our Stories: Multicultural Autistics Discussion Group is on this Friday 16th January

Time:
6.30pm - 8.00pm (AEST - QLD)
7.30pm - 9.00pm (AEDT - NSW, Vic, Tas)
7.00pm - 8.30pm (ACDT - SA)
6.00pm - 7.30pm (ACST - NT
4.30pm - 6.00pm (AWST - WA)

Facilitators: Helen Said & Linda
Cost: No Cost*
Queries: linda@neurokindred.com
Book online: www.neurokindred.com/bookings

We hope to see you there.

*All Neurokindred Peer Groups are Autistic-led, lived experience centred and free of charge. We are delivering some of our projects with the Peer Support and Capacity Building (PSCB) grant for the NDIS.

10/01/2026

🌿 Welcome Neurokin to 'Embracing the Crone' a safe and nourishing haven for Autistic women & non-binary+ (45+) on this Thursday.

"Dear brave souls, I warmly invite you to come be at the fireside with me and the Dangerous Old Woman and the Power of the Crone. Who is the crone? She is the most dangerous, the most radical, the most revolutionary woman in existence. Whether in fairy tales or in consensual reality, the old one goes where she wants to and she acts as she wishes; she lives as she chooses. And this is all as it should be. And no one can stop her. Nor ought they try."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés (The Power of the Crone: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype, 2011)

🌿 Why as late-identified Autistics we embrace 'crone energy'
The Crone is a benevolently powerful archetypal instinct to embrace in oneself. She is battle-scarred, richly wise and deeply committed to knowing and being her true self. She is recognising her own power and has less f@cks to give about conventional ways of being. Connection with her authentic self and finding her own peace and equilibrium are her priorities. She has much to teach, to share but only on her own terms and only with those who are worthy.

🌿 As late-identified Autistic women & non-binary+ we embrace this hard-won power. As survivors of many battles, we gather to share and appreciate each other, to compare scars, to share wisdom to learn from neurokin on the same healing odyssey.
If this resonates for you-we would love to meet you.
-Melody & Linda

When: Thursday 15th January
Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm (AEST - QLD)
7.00pm - 8.30pm (AEDT - NSW, Vic, Tas)
6.30pm - 8.00pm (ACDT - SA)
5.30pm - 7.00pm ( ACST - NT)
4.00pm - 5.30pm (AWST - WA)

Where: Zoom
Cost: Free*
Group size: approx 12
Recurring: Every first and third Thursday.
Queries: linda@neurokindred.com
Book online: www.neurokindred.com/bookings
More information:
www.neurokindred.com/peergroups

*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.

09/01/2026

❤️‍🔥The Persephone Circle Special Event- 'Welcome to the New Year' Energy Healing Session is on Monday.

When: Monday January 12th 2026
Time:
9am-10.30am (Brisbane-AEST)
9.30-11am (Adelaide-ACDT)
10am-11.30am (Vic, NSW, Tas-AEDT)
7am-8.30am (Perth-AWST)

🧙🏻‍♀️Niki Jones of Healing Craft Coaching will lead the session
You can check them out here: https://healingcraftcoaching.com/about
Cost: Free
Book online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

Description:
This session will be a Ritual that includes Energy Cleansing and Healing to help us Release everything that we don't want to bring into the New Year.
There will also be Energy Activations to help us Anchor in the Intentions we want for 2026.
This will be inclusive so it may fit into your practice, no matter how it looks.

Feel Free to bring something to help you connect to your Higher Self, Spiritual Team, Universe, etc... Also, bring anything that makes You Feel Comfy and Cozy.

Example: I am a beginner so what that looks like for me will be my lemon scented candle, weighted pillow and images and phrases I have created to represent the people and energy I wish to live in this year.
Other item suggestions: crystals, oracle decks, wordings, runes.

05/01/2026

Welcome to the New Year 🫶🏾 The Holiday Drop-ins at Neurokindred have been lovely co-regulation ‘parallel play’ spaces. Thank you to everyone who came along and shared their energy 😍🙏

We are starting the New Year gently with two sessions with our amazing Neurokindred Affiliates Dr Simone Kolysh of Defiant Life Coaching and Niki Jones of Healing Craft Coaching.

✊🏾F@ck the Patriarchy: Autistic Feminism Discussion Group with Dr. Simone Kolysh
Topic: how to be in community, mutuality, lateral violence, what can we learn from other movements/communities
When: Thurs 8th January
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)
Always: Second Thursday

❤️‍🔥The Persephone Circle Special Event- ‘Welcome to the New Year” Energy Healing and Intention setting session with Niki Jones
When: Mon 12th January
Time: 9-10.30am (Brisbane-AEST)
Always: Second Monday

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

Questions: linda@neurokindred.com

Book online: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

31/12/2025

2025 has been a year of extraordinary growth and challenge for Neurokindred. As we reflect on our achievements and impact, I feel deep gratitude for the trust our neurokin have placed in us. It is a privilege and an honour to walk alongside you and to support our community.

Peer Support Community-compared to last year, we expanded from:
22 to 41 groups a month
110 to 371 sessions total
164 to 559.5 hours of support.
595 to 2907 attendances
17 to 20 facilitators

Thriving Autistically-compared to last year, we expanded from:
6 to 7 days
31 to 46 events
31 to 51 Autistic volunteer facilitators
15 to 19 sponsors
37 to 65 prizes
162 to 294 pre-registered
1519 event registrations
329 to 904 attendances

I want to sincerely thank all who have volunteered and collaborated with us past, present and continuing. Neurokindred would not be the same without you 🫶

Looking to 2026...

This coming year will be one of consolidation and refinement. Training new facilitators and refining our programs for efficiency and sustainability.

Just before the end of the year, we extended an invitation to new collaborators from our community and the response was overwhelming. I was moved to tears of gratitude that so many people have found what we offer here to be meaningful, and that they want to play a part in helping it continue.

I am looking forward to this new phase, to solidifying the foundations and deepening the connections that will sustain both our community and those who care for it.

Happy New Year 🎉

29/12/2025

🎮 Video Game Hangout: A SpIns group for Autistics aged 15+ (or adult accompanied)-Holiday Drop-in

A relaxed peer space to connect through gaming. At the start we’ll share what games everyone is playing and what you’d like to get out of the session. Towards the end we’ll check in on how it went—what worked, what didn’t, and what you discovered.

You’re welcome to play the same game as others or something completely different - Minecraft, indie favourites, or whatever you enjoy. Conversation can be light or minimal; it’s fine just to hang out alongside each other. Screen sharing is welcome (please keep content safe-for-work).

If you’d just like to hang out in community doing something else (e.g. lego, collage, fibre arts, colouring etc) you are very welcome.

When: First Saturday of the month
Next: Saturday 3rd January
Time: 1.00pm - 2.30pm (AEST - QLD)
2.00pm - 3.30pm (AEDT - NSW, Vic, Tas)
1.30pm - 3.00pm (ACDT - SA)
12.30pm - 2.00pm (ACST - NT)
11.00am - 12.30pm (AWST - WA)

Where: Online
Cost: Free
Facilitator: Mason

Queries: mason@neurokindred.com
Book online: www.neurokindred.com/bookings

23/12/2025

The Holiday Drop-ins at Neurokindred have been lovely co-regulation ‘parallel play’ spaces. Thank you to everyone who came along and shared their energy 😍🙏

We have two more drop-in spaces for anyone who needs.

🤘🏽Stay Blasphemous Drop-in with Linda
Theme: ‘Pockets of peace’ during the holiday week
Bring: Regulation supports, Builds, Craft, Colouring etc
When: Saturday 27th December
Time: 9-10am (Brisbane-AEST)

🕹️Video Game Hangout with Mason
When: Saturday 3rd Jan
Always: First Saturday
Time: 1.00-2.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

We also start the new year with our amazing Neurokindred Affiliates Dr Simone Kolysh of Defiant Life Coaching and Niki Jones of Healing Craft Coaching.

✊🏾F@ck the Patriarchy: Autistic Feminism Discussion Group with Dr. Simone Kolysh
When: Thurs 8th January
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)
Always: Second Thursday

❤️‍🔥The Persephone Circle Special Event- ‘Welcome to the New Year” Energy Healing and Intention setting session with Niki Jones
When: Mon 12th January
Time: 9-10.30am (Brisbane-AEST)
Always: Second Monday

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

Questions: linda@neurokindred.com

Book online: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

18/12/2025

Neurokindred Peer Support Community will be on break until Jan 18th 2026.

However…we have our Holiday Drop-ins if you need connection to community during this time.

🤘🏽Stay Blasphemous Drop-ins with Linda & Niki
Theme: ‘Pockets of peace’ during the holiday week
Bring: Regulation supports, Builds, Craft, Colouring etc
Time: 9-10am (Brisbane-AEST)

🌈Colour Me Autistic with Sarah & Linda
When: Tuesday 23rd Dec
Time: 11am-12.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🕹️Video Game Hangout with Mason
When: Saturday 3rd Jan
Always: First Saturday
Time: 1.00-2.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

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

Questions: linda@neurokindred.com

Book online: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

15/12/2025

📚Bibliotherapy with Counsellor Emma Mitchell and Danielle King
When: Third Wednesday of the month
Next: Wednesday 17th December
Time:
2.00pm - 3.30pm (AEST - QLD)
3.00pm - 4.30pm (AEDT - NSW, Vic, Tas)
2.30pm - 4.00pm (ACDT - SA)
1.30pm - 3.00pm (ACST - NT)
12.00pm - 1.30pm (AWST - WA)

Queries: emma@neurokindred.com
Book Online: www.neurokindred.com/bookings

Description: Discussion focused on internal experiences externalised in books.

Topic: Found family - How reading books with found family themes related to our own experiences, can identify related values and enhance deep friendships

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