PDA Peer Consultation Circle
A monthly neurodiversity-affirming reflective practice and peer consultation space for professionals supporting PDAers and PDA-impacted families.
​Upcoming dates:
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June 1, 2026, 9:30-11:00am PST
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July 6, 2026, 9:30-11:00am PST
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Format: Virtual
Investment: $75
Max: 10 participants per session
About the Facilitator:
Camille is an AuDHD RSW (in ON and BC) and RCC (in BC), living in a neurodiverse family where PDA is present. She also supports PDA individuals and families living with PDA, and practitioners who support PDA clients. ​
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​Purpose:
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To reduce professional isolation,
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To help practitioners tolerate uncertainty,
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To support nervous-system awareness in helpers,
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To create a space where professionals can move away from coercive or compliance-oriented responses without shame,
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To engage in professional and collaborative case consultation with peers who are also serving PDAers, and
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To engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration and sharing of neurodiversity-affirming resources and strategies specific to PDA.
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This group is grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm and assumes PDA is best understood through low-demand, collaborative, relational, and nervous-system-informed approaches rather than compliance-based behaviour modification.
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This Group is For:
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Counsellors, therapists, and social workers,
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Behaviour interventionists (BI) and behaviour consultants (BC) who are seeking to serve clients within the neurodiversity paradigm (non-ABA),
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Mental and medical health practitioners, and
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Educators supporting PDAers (i.e., teachers, SEAs, tutors, etc.).
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Participants from all Canadian provinces and territories are welcome. This group is offered as a professional peer consultation and learning space and is not intended to provide regulated clinical services across jurisdictions.
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Group Values:
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Mutuality,
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Confidentiality,
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Curiosity over certainty, and
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Nervous-system-informed practice.
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What to Expect:
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10–15 min — arrivals/check-in/intention/self-reflection
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10 min — brief teaching/resource/topic or participant question and discussion
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50–55 min — 2-3 consultation cases (maintaining confidentiality)
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10 min — takeaways/resources/closing​​
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This Group is Not:
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This group is intended to support collaborative professional reflection and learning, not to establish consensus regarding PDA conceptualization, diagnosis, or intervention;
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Psychotherapy;
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Clinical supervision;
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Crisis support; or
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Parent support​​​
Neurodiversity-Affirming Values Statement
​This consultation space is grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm and recognizes neurodivergence as a natural and valuable form of human diversity rather than a deficit to be normalized or extinguished.
We strive to support PDAers and PDA-impacted families through approaches that prioritize:
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autonomy,
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safety,
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collaboration,
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nervous system regulation,
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relational trust,
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consent,
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authenticity,
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and sustainable functioning over compliance or behavioral control.
We acknowledge the impact that coercive, compliance-based, and deficit-oriented systems can have on neurodivergent individuals and families, including burnout, trauma, shame, and relational rupture.
Participants are invited to engage with humility, curiosity, and a commitment to reflective practice.​​​