Do you feel anxious about getting intimate because it might lead to frustration, disappointment, or overwhelm?
Do you find it difficult to stay focused or maintain arousal due to racing thoughts, external distractions, or sensory sensitivities? Many neurodivergent folks struggle with aspects of dating and intimacy that rely on social norms, sensory regulation, and attention management. These challenges can lead to frustrating encounters in the bedroom in moments meant to feel intimate and pleasurable.
This workshop offer concrete tools and language to navigate these dynamics with more compassion, confidence, and collaboration. Designed for single or partnered autistic and ADHD folks as well as their partners. You'll leave with communication skills and regulation strategies you can use to feel more grounded, connected, and empowered in dating and intimacy whether partnered or preparing for future connections.
This workshop is part of a three-part series. We also invite you to join Neurodiverse Relating & Executive Function and Neurodiverse Love & Emotional Intimacy.
In this experiential workshop, you will:
How to initiate convos about sensory needs and and explore preferences around touch, sound, scent, and space
Strategies for navigating attention, distraction, and arousal regulation during sex
Skills for creating novelty and spontaneity, redirecting unwanted touch, and ending encounters while maintaining connection
Ways neurotypical partners can better support their neurodivergent loved ones and how to co-create alignment around differing needs and desires.
How to create a personalized user manual to help orient yourself and others to your needs and preferences.
This workshop is part of a three-part series and while each workshop stands on its own, they are designed to work together. Experiencing all three offerings will help you integrate the material more deeply and gain the full benefit of the series.
Many neurodivergent individuals and mixed neurotype couples struggle with executive function differences, including how to plan, prioritize, and manage the never-ending to-do list. These difficulties can create stress, leading to miscommunication and conflict, challenges with initiation and completion, and friction around different ways of doing things. We offer practical strategies to work with neurological differences instead of against them.
Learn how core neurodivergent experiences, including alexithymia, decision fatigue, sensory overload, and masking, impact intimacy and trust. Explore how to feel emotions without overanalyzing and support nervous system regulation. Practice engaging in challenging conversations without avoidance or overwhelm. Discover strategies to interrupt reactive patterns such as catastrophizing, shame spirals, and rejection sensitivity.
Many neurodivergent people struggle with attention, arousal, and sensory regulation during dating and sex, which can make moments meant to feel pleasurable feel stressful instead. Discover how to explore and share sensory needs, manage distraction, regulate arousal, and create novelty while maintaining intimacy. You’ll get a personalized intimacy user manual and practical tools that will help you feel embodied and empowered.
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This course is available on-demand, ready to be viewed and completed on your schedule. When you enroll, you’ll have immediate access to course videos and materials.
