We are so excited to see you have found your way to our ND Family Hub – The Nook by Nurture. Over the last year or so we have built a beautiful community of people and if you join us we will be one more person, carer, human being closer to helping more of you grow from crisis to calm, to learn, work or live, in safety.
Safe spaces for you to be Authentic. Safe for you to live without fear or judgement, or anxiety about whether or not you are accepted; confident that your own uniqueness is understood and that you are valued and celebrated for who you truly are!
We are inside, waiting for you to join us so you can start understanding how brilliant you truly are.
We are so excited to see you have found your way to our ND Family Hub – The Nook by Nurture. Over the last year or so we have built a beautiful community of people and if you join us we will be one more person, carer, human being closer to helping more of you grow from crisis to calm, to learn, work or live, in safety.
Safe spaces for you to be Authentic. Safe for you to live without fear or judgement, or anxiety about whether or not you are accepted; confident that your own uniqueness is understood and that you are valued and celebrated for who you truly are!
We are inside, waiting for you to join us so you can start understanding how brilliant you truly are.
In our members only Facebook Group you will find a collection of webinars, interviews and even a selection of our previous conference recordings from world renowned speakers such as Alfie Kohn, Dr Wenn Lawson, Kieran Rose, Vanessa Bobb, Talisha TeeCee Johnson and many more. Our speakers are carefully selected and always align with our nurturing ethos, advocate for a more neuro-affirming model of disability and work tirelessly to support our neurodivergent community.
Alongside our our webinars & events our Facebook group enables accessible connection. Most of our members found us there, so that is where we are most days and alongside our group we have an active messenger chat available dedicated for our members to utilise whenever they need.
We stream our events live, directly into the group so that you don’t have to quit doom scrolling whilst you watch and listen. This is important to us as we understand that being present for webinars is difficult and often we need something else to do to enable us to focus.
Included in your membership:
- Webinars & training delivered quarterly from neurodivergent speakers.
- Messenger chat available as an optional extra.
- Access to our members-only Facebook group.
- Dedicated online portal with individual login.
- 10% Discount on our shop products.
- OUR FULL webinars library since we launched.
This space is designed to be your safe space and has been developed with the knowledge that often our families are in crisis and are seeking, connection first and foremost. We don’t judge, we don’t shame. If you are new to the neurodivergent community we want to make sure that you feel valued, appreciated and always welcome. Often we don’t have many safe spaces for a variety of reasons, such as social anxiety, the feeling of being ostracised or never really connecting with groups of people in the outside world. We get it. We truly do, and this is where The Nook by Nurture aims to fill that void.
We want to connect. We want to share. We want to help the next generations thrive whilst protecting them from the trauma we have experienced. Breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma through Calm, Connection, Co-Regulation® – A Nurturing Parenting Approach.
All of our videos in The Nook have a ‘Spoon’ guide to help you easily navigate our content. Look out for our spoonie friends – they are on every one of our videos to let you know if the content will nourish and nurture (the ‘smiley’ spoon) or offer a warning for our more intense videos (the ‘half smiley’ spoon). This will allow you decide which videos you want to devour based on your own spoon supply and levels of emotional energy.
MEET THE TEAM
Jodie Isitt, Founder
I’m Jodie, and I am Autistic. Nope, scrap that! I’m Autistic and absolutely 100% proud and privileged to be able to share my experiences with you in the hope that we can bring about change, and balance, and inspire NURTURE throughout not just the community, but adventurously the universe!
I was only diagnosed on 2020 over 8 years after my first child was diagnosed (three Autistic children altogether) and whilst I have been predominantly using a Nurturing parenting style, it never fully translated to myself, therefore I was frequently in a state of shutdown and burnout and unable to tend to my own needs. Impossible really when I wasn’t aware there were any, let alone understand them to be able to advocate for them to be met. I made the mistake of believing I knew everything about autism, until I was diagnosed myself. I now understand and fully support that there simply are NO experts. Not one single expert on Autistic experience or other neurodivergence, because no one person can simply know and understand every single person on the planet. Our experiences are individual and unique and absolutely beautiful and learning about neurodivergence is one of the most inspiring, fulfilling things I have ever done in my life. I want to learn more, every single day. Because not only does it help me understand myself and my family, it has also helped me to become a much better person, less afraid, less misunderstood about difference and absolutely more accepting. It is a powerful thing, knowledge. And knowledge is absolutely the power we need to be able to thrive in a world with outdated beliefs of our “disordered selves”. We can use our knowledge in the most inspiring of ways, to create change, to reframe thinking and understanding and to nurture people to make that step from thinking we need to be modified, to KNOWING that we are 100% exactly as we were meant to be. And becoming that stepping stone, building that bridge and facilitating the movement from “US” to “THEM” is exciting.
We do NOT need to be modified, we do not need to change. What we need is a more inclusive, understanding and accepting society that we are appreciated in as an equal contributor.
Eloise Elford, The Nook Manager
