Description
Parenting Plus: From Survival to Connection
A Whole Family Guide to PDA and Autism
About the series:
Parenting Plus: From Survival to Connection is a compassionate webinar series from bestselling author Missing The Mark, Eliza Fricker exploring PDA and autism through the lens of nervous systems, emotional safety, relationships, and family wellbeing.
Future topics include:
Reducing the pressure and spotting hidden demands, communication for safety, overwhelm and recovery, relationships and the wide family, school impact and burnout, parenting with trust.
Because parenting neurodivergent children often asks more of families this series aims to support not just the child, but the whole family. This is not a ‘how to’ rather a supportive guide to with the tools you already have.
Session 1 What PDA Really Is
Understanding the nervous system behind demand avoidance
Parenting a child with demand avoidance can feel exhausting, isolating, and misunderstood especially when traditional parenting advice seems to make things worse instead of better.
This gentle and validating webinar is the first session in a brand-new series:
Parenting Plus: From Survival to Connection. A Whole Family Approach to PDA and Autism
Created for parents and caregivers navigating PDA, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and family stress, this series explores compassionate approaches that prioritise safety, trust, and connection over compliance.
In this first session, we will explore what PDA really is beneath the surface behaviours. why everyday demands can feel threatening, the nervous system and survival responses, why rewards and consequences often backfire, hidden demands we may not even notice, masking, burnout, and emotional overwhelm, the difference between wanting to and being able to, how understanding changes the way we parent
Together we’ll look at: why everyday demands can feel threatening, the nervous system and survival responses, why rewards and consequences often backfire, hidden demands we may not even notice, masking, burnout, and emotional overwhelm, the difference between wanting to and being able to, how understanding changes the way we parent
This is not about blame, perfection, or “fixing” children.
It is a space for parents to feel understood, supported, and gently empowered with a deeper understanding what is going on for their child.
Whether you are newly exploring PDA or already here on this journey.
This webinar is for parents and carers who are experiencing their child’s school fall outs, who feel stuck in cycles of exhaustion and high distress. Who want new ways to find their way back to connection.
This will be based on real- life understanding, with reframes and insights, a space to reflect without judgement, to find ways for the whole family.
