60-minute Webinar:
Wednesday 29th April 7:00pm – 8:00pm Melbourne Time

Autistic Emotional Regulation:
Working With Your Nervous System

Autistic emotional regulation is often misunderstood and framed through a neurotypical lens that prioritises suppression, behavioural control, or “calming down.” In reality, emotional regulation for autistic people is deeply connected to nervous system safety, sensory processing, energy capacity, and lived experience.

Autistic Emotional Regulation: Working With Your Nervous System offers a validating and practical exploration of how autistic nervous systems respond to stress, sensory input, and relational demands — and how regulation can be supported without shame, pressure, or masking. Grounded in neuroaffirming and trauma-informed perspectives, this webinar reframes emotional responses as meaningful signals rather than problems to be fixed.

Participants will explore how overwhelm, shutdown, meltdowns, anxiety, and emotional intensity arise, and how working with the nervous system — rather than against it — can foster resilience, self-compassion, and sustainable wellbeing. This session is suitable for autistic adults, parents, carers, therapists, educators, and anyone seeking to better understand autistic emotional experiences.

• Understanding the Autistic Nervous System
  • How autistic nervous systems differ in sensory processing, threat detection, and recovery time.
  • Reframing emotional intensity as a nervous system response, not a personal failing.
  • Understanding fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown through a neuroaffirming lens.
• Emotional Signals, Overwhelm, and Regulation Capacity
  • Recognising early signs of dysregulation before escalation.
  • Understanding the link between sensory load, cognitive demand, social expectations, and emotional capacity.
  • Differentiating between emotions, stress responses, and survival states.
• Why Traditional “calming strategies” Often Fail Autistic People
  • Exploring regulation strategies that prioritise safety, predictability, and choice.
  • Supporting self-regulation and co-regulation in ways that honour autonomy and dignity.
• Building a Sustainable Regulation Toolkit
  • Developing personalised, nervous-system-informed regulation practices.
  • Using movement, sensory input, rest, and connection as regulation supports.
  • Strengthening self-trust, self-compassion, and emotional literacy over time.

NOTE: This event is INTERACTIVE. This means you will be invited to respond to discussion questions, share your experience, give your opinion, and, of course, ask questions of your own! (all participation is voluntary)

REPLAY Access: 2 weeks

This webinar will be recorded, and the replay will be available for two weeks before being added to our member webinar library.

Cost: $30 AUD (free for members)

This event is included as part of your AFTI membership. If you're not a member and would like to attend as a once-off, you can purchase a ticket for $30 AUD.

Our +1 Policy
Our commitment to sharing our inside understanding of autism means that we encourage partners / family members in the same household to attend our webinars together for the one affordable ticket price, because it takes a village to create an autistically inclusive and positive world.

NDIS Participants 
Self-Managed or Plan Managed NDIS participants may be able to claim this webinar registration fee. Check with your plan manager for clarification.

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