Autistic Revolution's Winter Holiday Community Event
What an amazing evening! Thank you to all who joined us!
Autistic Revolution's Winter Holiday Community Event
co-hosted by Jade Farrington & Laura Hellfeld of Autistic Revolution
Event Details:
When: Wednesday December 11th, 7 - 9 PM GMT
How to Book: via Eventbrite, link is below
Where: Online, zoom link sent before event from Eventbrite
Cost: Free! We do have an option when securing your ticket in case you are in the position to make a donation and 'pay it forward' for the next community event
What else to know: tickets to attend are limited, the event is not recorded, donations are non-refundable as they pay future guest speakers and I run these as an unpaid volunteer
Event Description:
You’re warmly invited to our winter holiday gathering, a time to connect with community, share conversations about how to accommodate yourself during this busy season, and enjoy the warmth of togetherness. We’ll be treated to a musical interlude by a young community member and also enjoy some relaxation with somatic self-care guided by Courtney Freedman-Thompson of Chameleon Coaching.
Join us as we create a welcoming space to relax, reflect, and celebrate the season in good company.
Our time together is also inspired by Jade Farrington’s recent ebook ‘A Community Guide to a Happy Neurodivergent Christmas’.
Recent Events
July 10th 7-8:30 PM (GMT+1) free and by donation community event guided by Lindsay
Hello and welcome to Autistic Revolution's next Community Event.
If you aren't familiar with Autistic Revolution yet, it is our free, online magazine created by Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent folks. We also see our magazine as an invitation to community and we are excited to be bringing people together again for this upcoming webinar.
Event Details
When: Wednesday July 10th, 7 - 8.30 PM (BST/GMT+1)
Where: Online, zoom link sent before event from Eventbrite
Cost: Free! We do have an option when securing your ticket in case you are in the position to make a donation and 'pay it forward' for the next community event
Hosted by: Laura Hellfeld of Autistic Revolution
Guest Host: Lindsay Guttridge
What else to know: tickets to attend are limited
About Lindsay
Lindsay (she/her) is an Energy Therapist, passionate about sharing a powerful self-help tool known as EFT Tapping.
Lindsay has worked as an Integrative Counsellor and Parent Support Advisor, and professionally studied Energy Therapies including Reiki & Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Together with her husband, extended family, and black kitty cat, Luna; Lindsay is raising their 12yr old daughter who is diagnosed and comfortably self identifies as Autistic & as a PDAer. They are a life long Radically Unschooling Family.
Lindsay also shares her passions and loves to connect with her community in her Facebook group Peace With PDA, and in her daily Coffee Break videos for PDA Parents on her YouTube Channel.
Follow Lindsay on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/LindsayEFT
Parents & Primary Carers of PDAers welcome in our Peace With PDA online community : https://www.facebook.com/share/DFKe6kTx8E8eeVoF/?mibextid=K35XfP
Follow on Youtube for weekly videos:
Lindsay Guttridge @peacewithpda :
https://www.youtube.com/@PeaceWithPDA
Contact Lindsay to join the waiting list for
The Freedom Centre: EFT for PDA Parents
Next intakes June & September 2024
What Lindsay Has to Say about the Event
A bit on EFT Tapping:
Emotional Freedom Techniques (aka EFT Tapping) is a combo of acupressure and neuroscience. It effectively and simply removes ‘blockages’ in the bodies energy system. ‘The Tapping Solution’ describes EFT like this -
Tapping provides relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases.
While Tapping is newly set to revolutionise the field of health and wellness, the healing concepts that it’s based upon have been in practice in Eastern medicine for over 5,000 years.
Like acupuncture and acupressure, Tapping is a set of techniques which utilise the body’s energy meridian points. You can stimulate these meridian points by tapping on them with your fingertips – literally tapping into your body’s own energy and healing power.
Your body is more powerful than you can imagine… filled with life, energy, and a compelling ability for self-healing.
With Tapping, you can take control of that power.
How does EFT Tapping work?
Our body’s energy system has a profound electrical nature. Electrical messages are constantly sent through the body to inform it of what is going on.
For example, if we touch something very hot, we feel the pain instantly because it is electrically transmitted to the brain quickly via our nerves.
EFT is a simple and noninvasive process that can be learnt by almost anyone and is based on the ethos of making change as pain free as possible.
EFT can bring relief from emotional, mental, or physical pain.
This includes unresolved anger, fear and traumas which can affect our relationships, confidence, self-worth and also our physical health.
In essence, EFT is a “no needles” version of acupuncture that can give you profound relief from emotional and physical issues.
It involves a two stage process whereby
1) you “tune in” to your specific issues whilst
2) tapping with your fingers on certain meridian or energy points on the body just beneath the surface of the skin.
EFT Tapping can help YOU to interrupt that stress pattern of ‘fight-flight-freeze for yourself and release those stress hormones your body has been flooded with, and begin to retrain your body and mind to respond differently!
Lindsay
See Below for Previous AR Hosted Events
Autistic Revolution Event: Watercolouring with Cat Regi!
Autistic Revolution Community Event: Watercolouring with Cat Regi; Friday, April 19 · 5 - 6am CDT
A very warm welcome to one of Autistic Revolution's community events hosted by Laura Hellfeld, Neurodivergent Nurse Consulting.
We are excited to welcome back Cat Regi of Badibidu to guide us through an hour of an anti-perfection water colouring session.
Cat creates a very low-demand and chilled atmosphere for us to take a break and rest with some creativity.
Please note that while your space in the event is covered, you will need to have your own supplies to take part. Catherine has listed supplies on the left hand side of the below linked page.
https://badibidu.com/products/virtual-watercolour-session-open-new
Your young person is welcome to join along with you!
Please note that the session has limited spaces.
If you would like to 'pay-it-forward', you are able to make a donation to Autistic Revolution when securing your ticket via Eventbrite or via our Just Giving page below. These funds will help cover a future community event.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/autistic-revolution-magazine
Previous 2024 Events
Same Food as Self Care Online Fundraiser for Autistic Revolution Webinar February 27th, 7-9 pm GMT
SAME FOOD AS SELF CARE
A FREE and by donation webinar on February 27th, 7-9 pm GMT. Donations are for Autistic Revolution!
Same Food as Self Care
Guided by Jenny Loughran, Scott Neilson & Laura Hellfeld
We're Fundraising for Autistic Revolution!
Autistic Revolution is a new, international digital magazine that is developed exclusively by autistic and otherwise neurodivergent folk. We have created Autistic Revolution to help provide information and build community.
We have been thrilled that so many of you have accessed our launch issue and we are busy creating issue 2 for February.
Currently, Autistic Revolution is being managed, produced & financially supported by volunteers.
While we are taking steps to secure additional funding sources, we are keen to keep the magazine going & to access our software as a team.
Therefore, we are excited to announce that we are hosting our webinar ‘Same Food as Self Care’ on February 27th as a fundraiser for Autistic Revolution.
Please secure your space via the EventBrite link & choosing a 'Donation' ticket. You will then be prompted to write in a donation amount that you are comfortable with giving to AR.
Webinar Description:
Together we will explore the Neurodivergent food trait of ‘same food’. Same foods are foods that we have a great attachment to, our personal favourites. We may eat these foods every day in order to bring ourselves routine or comfort.
Participants will be welcomed to draw or look up an image of one of their same foods. Please have creative tools (Ie. colouring pencils, paper, wrappers) on hand! For those comfortable, we can share these foods and community moment with one another.
We will then explore our emotional & sensory responses to our chosen same food. Participants will be encouraged to draw or write what emotions, colours, shapes, music (or anything else!) that they feel when thinking of their same food. We will explore how our same foods therefore provide an important piece to our mental well-being & self-care.
Participants will then be guided to create scripts for themselves to help navigate social eating scenarios & advocate their food needs.
Please note that this session is to facilitate fun and exploration and is not a support session.
We Hope that You Can Join Us
The Autistic Revolution Team
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/same-food-as-self-care-tickets-781216368187?aff=oddtdtcreator