Neurokindred

Neurokindred is an Autistic & Disability-led social enterprise and online counselling & peer support community for Autistic adults.
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Providing quality, accessible, neuro-affirming mental health & wellbeing support, social connection & community care.

29/08/2026

🧶Crafting Autistic Wellbeing PM is on Tuesday 1st September

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

28/08/2026

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

🧶Crafting Wellbeing: Fibre Arts Play Date with Sharni & Lizzy
When: Tues 1st September
Always: First Monday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🫖Mad Hatter’s Tea Party: Mad Autistics Peer Support Group with Jacinta & Jess
When: Wednesday 2nd September
Always: First Wednesday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🐦‍⬛Unleashing the Crone: Autistic WNB+ (40+) Discussion Space with Linda, Deb & Sonia
When: Wed 2nd September
Always: First Wednesday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🖋️Penning Wellbeing Circle: Writing Play Date with Jade Lee
When: Thurs 3rd September
Always: First & Third Thursday
Time: 9-10.30am (Brisbane-AEST)

⚡️Blaze of Glory: Autistic Elders Discussion Group with Deb & Mark
When: Thursday 3rd September
Always: First Thursday
Time: 6-7.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🎲Gaming Autistic Wellbeing: TTRPG with Gamemaster Asher
When: Fri 4th September
Game: Dungeons & Dragons
Time: 1-3pm (Brisbane-AEST)
Always: First & Third Friday

🫟Embrace the Chaos: Autistic Parents, Carers & Kin Peer Support with Jac Lai
When: Friday 4th September
Always: First Friday
Time: 6.30-8.00pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🕹️Video Game Hangout with Mason
When: Saturday 5th September
Always: First Saturday
Time: 1.00-2.30pm (Brisbane-AEST)

🕯️Autistic Lived Experience Peer Professionals Support Group with Deb & Linda
When: Saturday 5th September
Always: First Saturday
Time: 4.30-6pm (Brisbane-AEST)

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

Neurokindred is an Autistic and Disability-led service provision and work integration social enterprise headquartered in outer regional FNQ. Our community care ecosystem provides peer support, capacity building and social connection spaces for Autistic adults. Our lived experience workforce deliver 100% online and support Autistic adults Australia-wide and internationally.

25/08/2026

🥄Autistic Spoonies: Autistics with Chronic Illness Peer Support group is on Friday 28th August
Time:
1-2.30pm (Brisbane, Vic, NSW, TAS-AEST)
12.30-2pm (Adelaide, NT-ACST)
11am-12.30pm (Perth-AWST)

Facilitator: Dr Simone Kolysh of Defiant Life Coaching
Recurring: Second Wednesday & fourth Friday of the month
Cost: Free*
Questions: [email protected]
Book online: www.neurokindred.com/bookings

*All Neurokindred peer groups are Autistic-led and free of charge. Our peer support groups are delivered with funding from the NDIA Peer Support and Capacity Building Grant.

25/08/2026

📎DE Drop-In: Developmental Educator supported Body-Doubling for Autistic adults is on Friday

Jade is a Developmental Educator and Teacher by profession and we have contracted with them to provide a monthly 2 hour Drop-in session for Neurokindred Community Members.

This will be available every month on the fourth Friday.

When: Friday 28th August
Time: 9.00am -11.00am (AEST - QLD, NSW, Vic, Tas)
8.30am - 10.30am (ACST - SA, NT)
7.00am - 9.00am (AWST - WA)
Cost: Free
Book online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

Email Jade ahead of time with tasks you need support with: [email protected]
or
complete form and book a 15min 1:1: https://forms.gle/kivkpW9yzDHgeMa68

To book in for a 1:1 15 minute consult book here: https://calendar.app.google/WL8kRoiXZaAzerQK8
These will be conducted in a breakout room.

Special Note:
As Autistics we have many different ways we like to body double.
Some like to chat, some move around, and others need library quiet etc.
To accommodate this we can arrange a ‘no-talking’ breakout space available on request.
Jade will move between spaces but will mainly be in the main room or in the 1:1 consults.
Or people can just mute the sound in the main room.
You are welcome to move between spaces to find the environment and energy that works best for you.

Break Out Rooms
After Jade’s orientation the following rooms will be available:
Main Room-Quiet room
Talkie Room
1:1 session room
If you come after orientation you can click on break out rooms in the Zoom toolbar and select your space.
Jade will move between rooms.

25/08/2026

Tap the Week Away-EFT Tapping Group Practice Space for Neurodivergents with Melody Edwardson is on Friday 28th August
Time:
6-6.30pm (Brisbane/Syd/Melb/TAS -AEST)
5.30-6pm (Adelaide/NT-ACST)
4-4.30pm (Perth-AWST)

Melody will be your facilitator

Cost: Free
Book Online: https://neurokindred.com/bookings/

23/08/2026

💡Autistic Social Entrepreneurs Discussion Group.
When: Thursday August 27th
Time:
7.00pm-8.15pm (AEST)
6.30pm-7.45pm (ACST)
5.00pm-6.15pm (AWST)

Special Guest: We have the amazing Rebecca McCash of FutureTech Australia joining us as a special guest for our August session.

As shared by Dr Sharon last session, Rebecca is facilitating an online Learning Circle with the Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT (SECNA) on navigating changes in NDIS following the Senate inquiry’s final report (details below).

They have generously agreed to come along and give us a summary of what the discussion yielded 🙏🏽

As Autistic Social Entrepreneurs this is an opportunity to lean into the 'Lemons into Lemonade' Effectuation principle and learn from a pioneering Autistic social entrepreneur.
Don't forget to book in for this session-not to be missed...

Rebecca's Learning Circle Details:

The NDIS landscape is changing rapidly, and for many small, community-based organisations, the uncertainty is already having very real consequences.

This won’t be a webinar with someone pretending to have all the answers. It will be an open, unrecorded conversation where social enterprises, service providers, advocates and community leaders can:
• unpack what the reforms may mean in practice
• share how their organisations are responding
• discuss how we protect both participants and the sustainability of our services
• explore how we can better align our voices and advocate together

As someone leading a small, neurodivergent-led organisation that relies heavily on NDIS-funded participation supports, I know how difficult it is to plan, reassure families and protect jobs while the ground keeps shifting underneath us...

Just a reminder:
ASE has been moved to the new booking system.
All sessions will need to be booked in to receive the link.

Already registered?
🔗 Log in at neurokindred.com/login/ and head to the Bookings tab
📋 Not on the new system yet? Register at neurokindred.com/welcome-to-neurokindred/

When you book, you'll get a calendar invite with the Zoom link inside.
Each session has its own link, sent straight to you when you book.
If your plans change, please cancel from your dashboard so someone on the waitlist can take the spot.

23/08/2026

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 27th August
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

23/08/2026

🫶🏽Tapping Topics: EFT Tapping for NDs on specific topics is on Wednesday 26th August
Topic: Shame

Time:
1-2.30pm (AEST-Brisbane)
1.30-3pm (ACDT-Adelaide)
2-3.30pm (AEDT-Syd/Melb/Tas)
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.

23/08/2026

🌈Colour Me Autistic is on Wednesday 26th August

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

Aliesha 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

23/08/2026

🏳️‍🌈The Gay Agenda: Q***r Autistics Discussion Group is on Tuesday.

Description: The Gay Agenda is somewhere to think. Once a month, one big idea about q***r and neurodivergent life, picked and opened by one of us, talked through together. Lived experience leads it, because the people who live this are the experts on it.

When: Tuesday 25th August
Time:
11am to 12.30pm (AEST)
10.30am-12pm (ACST)
9-10.30am (AWST)
Always: Fourth Tuesday
Book: https://www.neurokindred.com/bookings

How it runs: someone brings a topic. It can be a two-minute seed or a full session with a few slides.
Then the room takes over.
No lecture, no right answers.
You can talk, type in the chat, or just listen.
Passing is always fine.

Booking has moved to a new system.
New to Neurokindred and those who are transferring from old system:
You will need to make a member account and book your next session through it.
It takes about five minutes the first time, and only the once.

Here’s how it works now:
-You book each session on its own. -No standing booking, choose the dates you want one at a time.
-Every session has its own Zoom link.
-An old link won’t let you in, so always use the one for the session you booked.
-Your Zoom links live in your Hub, on the My Groups tab.
-Sign in any time and they’re right there.
-Spaces are more limited.
-If you’ve booked and can’t make it, cancel the booking. It opens the spot for the next person on the waitlist.

***rautistics

Address

6 Poppis Road
Forrest Beach, QLD
4850

Website

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