Onwards & Upwards offers a range of neuroaffirming supports designed to meet different needs, capacities, and contexts. Whether you are a parent looking for guidance, a professional seeking learning and reflection, or an organisation wanting deeper understanding, there are multiple ways to engage.
Each offering is grounded in lived experience, cultural awareness, and evidence informed practice, with a strong focus on safety, clarity, and practical support.
Parent support offers a space for parents and caregivers to better understand their child, reduce overwhelm, and feel more confident responding in neuroaffirming ways. Support focuses on understanding behaviour, emotional regulation, sensory needs, and family dynamics, with respect for culture, values, and lived experience.
This work is collaborative, compassionate, and practical, supporting parents to make sense of what is happening for their child and themselves.
Learn best with “give me a date and a time and I’ll be there?” We’ve got you here. Live workshops bring interactive, accessible learning to parents, educators, and professionals.
These workshops are run to promote connection, designed to learn something new (we hope!) but also come with space for discussions, questions and just that moment where you go “Wait, I’m not the only one?”
We rework what professional means, and believe you can have fun and learn at the same time, and leave feeling like you’ve been a part of something special.
On-demand learning gives you flexible, self-paced access to neuroaffirming education.
These courses are designed for people who want to learn in their own time, revisit content when they need a refresher (hello, ADHD memory), or break things into shorter, more manageable chunks or deep dive into hours and hours of learning that has been organised to just make sense. It’s a giant Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game here.
The content blends lived experience with clinical knowledge, so you’re getting both the “here’s what research says” and the “here’s what actually works in real life.”
Learn at 2am in your pyjamas if that’s when your brain is ready, no judgements. We hope there’s popcorn.
Sandhya delivers talks and presentations for schools, organisations, and conferences around Australia and the world that actually shift how people think about neurodivergent support.
These aren’t your standard “here’s a list of strategies” presentations. They dig into neurodiversity-affirming practice, supporting CALD/CARM populations, working with emotional dysregulation, and rethinking classroom management from the ground up.
Every talk is tailored to the audience and context, because what a kinder team needs is different from what a corporate HR department or dentistry team needs. What is key is they all get the same underlying challenge: to question assumptions, examine practices, and actually see neurodivergent people as whole humans worthy of dignity and autonomy.
Expect memes, metaphors, a splash of colour, and to laugh and think maybe feel a bit uncomfortable (in the good, “oh wow I need to rethink this” kind of way). These talks are accessible, respectful, grounded, and help us work together towards true inclusion.
