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Get certified in the Safe To Connect Autism Approach including the ACT protocol.

 

We certify specialists such as...  

OTs  ✦  SLPs  ✦  Teachers  ✦  Special Ed. Teachers  ✦  Therapists  ✦  Play Therapists  ✦  Child Psychologists  ✦  Autism Consultants/Coaches
AND
Therapy Centers  ✦  Group Homes  ✦  Early Childhood Education Centers

WOULD YOU LIKE TO...

 
  • Build your clientele, boost your credibility, and get a qualification that speaks to your own values – and those of a great many parents and autistic people?
  • Work with your clients in a way that demonstrates the most deep understanding, respect, and honoring of the autistic brain, nervous system, psyche, and experience?
  • Feel less stressed… and more successful?
    Eliminate the feeling that you are sometimes fighting or battling with your autistic client – or their parents?
  • Find an even more powerful purpose in what you’re doing than you already have?
  • Enable your clients to make the absolute most progress possible – without you ever feeling like you have to push or pressure?
  • Have a better, more productive, more authoritative relationship with the parents (whether they are the parents of your clients or whether the parents are your clients)?
  • Bring the Safe To Connect autism approach and the ACT (Autism Crisis Turnaround) protocol to your community?

Families, centers, and, yes, many professionals like you are crying out for ways to connect with, teach, inspire, communicate with, and build trust with people on the autism spectrum in a way that enables them to…

➛ Feel safe instead of threatened
➛ Be regulated instead of overloaded
➛ Truly connect instead of disconnect
➛ Trust instead of resist
➛ Feel respected instead of coerced
➛ Feel loved instead of evaluated

➛ Participate instead of being ruled by behaviors that others might find challenging or frightening
➛ Enjoy trying new and challenging things instead of having in their minds an association of fear, stress, loss of control, overwhelm, and unpleasantness with interacting, learning, and communicating

LEARN FROM THE BEST

Join renowned neurodivergent authors, seminar leaders, and lecturers Raun K. Kaufman and Kate C. Wilde – with well over half a century of combined experience – as they provide you with the kind of in-depth training that will earn you the respect of colleagues, the value of parents, the gratitude of clients, and the pride of yourself.

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LEARN CRUCIAL, IMMEDIATELY-ACTIONABLE SYSTEMS, STRATEGIES, AND APPROACHES

The 5 Natural Laws
of Autism


The five key (frequently-violated) aspects of the autistic brain and nervous system that we must follow in order for people on the autism spectrum to feel safe, be regulated, learn, interact, and fundamentally function – and in order for your therapy and efforts to maximally pay off

The 3 Autism
Neuro-States


A way to detect the (frequently-changing) brain state that a person on the spectrum is in at any given moment so that we can adjust our approach to match – an absolutely necessary missing piece for therapists, educators, and other professionals

The ACT
Protocol


The much-used approach of taking the autism world by storm enables dysregulated kids and adults to feel safe… preventing meltdowns, anxiety, and extreme/explosive behaviors 

Taxi Driver
Decisional Assistance


Concrete steps to take specifically with highly verbal people to defuse inflammatory statements, desires, or decisions in way that is conflict-free and feels safe to them… and enable them to grow socially by exploring and problem-solving challenges (events, feelings, recurring thoughts, ongoing issues, shyness, anxiety) that are bothering them and thinking through the social and other consequences of potential decisions, extreme responses, magical thinking, belligerence, etc. – without you having to push, contradict, threaten, scold, or debate.

Parent Coaching
for Professionals


High-level expertise (from two very experienced people who have been working with parents from over 100 different countries for decades) on the best ways to communicate with parents and the most effective ways to teach them the 5 Natural Laws of Autism and the ACT protocol – which you will be qualified to do (and will be provided with superb, fully-rendered handouts for the parents) after taking the course

BUILD YOUR PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

There are plenty of training programs out there. But this one will help you in some unique ways:

  • You will be able to tell clients (and the world) that you’re certified in the Safe To Connect Autism Approach (and use the logo, of course).

People have been following the work of Kate C. Wilde and Raun K. Kaufman for decades throughout the U.S. and across the globe – their books, their courses, their videos, their articles, their seminars, and Raun’s iconic personal autism journey that was made into a best-selling book and an award-winning movie.

  • You will be featured on our website as a recommended practitioner.
  • You will be highlighted in emails that we send directly to our large worldwide email list.
  • You will gain access to a portal of tools and videos that you may use yourself or offer to parents with whom you work.
  • You will become a part of a supportive community of professionals who share your values.
  • You will have permanent access to a set of fully done-for-you handouts for you to give to parents if you choose
  • 50% discounted courses for your clients (parents)
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • How to handle your biggest challenges and trickiest scenarios
  • To be an expert at preventing meltdowns and extreme or explosive behavior
  • Lengthening and strengthening social attention span
  • The way out of cycles of button-pushing (where a client/student does certain things to get a reaction out of you or others)
  • Avoiding control battles
  • Defusing inflammatory statements, desires, or decisions with highly verbal clients/students on the spectrum
  • The Timing of Teaching: Know when to teach or challenge and when not to
  • Neuro-State Detection: How to Identify precisely which neuro-state your client/student is in at any given moment
  • The Neuro-State Match: How to attune to the neuro-state of your client/student
  • What Neuro-Crashes are, what causes them, and how to prevent them
  • How to facilitate coercion-free learning and growth
  • Keys to building trust with your clients/students
  • Setting non-blurry boundaries with your clients/students
  • Effective approaches to teaching and promoting life skills
  • Cornerstones of social interaction/socialization
  • Circumventing crying, hitting, spitting, screaming, pinching, swearing, and similar behaviors
  • Promoting in your clients/students a willingness to try new things and to be more comfortable with things not going as they wish or expect
  • Enhancing engagement, participation, and interaction
  • Increasing your clients’/students’ motivation
  • Dealing with your own discomfort
  • Becoming immune to being tripped up and flustered
  • Overcoming and greatly reducing your own stress
  • What to do when your clients/students are not engaged
  • Maximizing the times when your clients/students are engaged
  • How to make your environment most conducive to regulation, reduced control battles, better behavior, and learning
  • Facilitating the mental health of your students/clients
  • Facilitating the mental health of yourself
  • Helping your students/clients feel safe
  • Exactly how to handle stims
  • How to approach self-harming behaviors
  • Helping your students/clients with emotional regulation
  • Dealing with challenging parental situations
  • Getting parents on board
  • Creating a real connection with parents
  • Teaching concepts to parents in a way they will understand and be able to use
  • Dealing with distressed or dysregulated parents
  • Setting non-blurry boundaries with parents

BE KNOWN AS NEURODIVERSITY-AFFIRMING

We are (thankfully!) in a time where the lived experience of autistic people is valued in a way it never has been. Society has made a profound cultural shift toward prioritizing the autonomy and emotional well-being of autistic people.

But, by and large, the professional community has not fully caught up with this, leading to a lot of resentment toward them from people on the spectrum and their parents. This training will provide you with an opportunity to be…

✦ Deeply educated in the underlying emotional, neuro-biological, psychological, interpersonal autistic experience

✦ Skilled at tuning into the wishes, desires, and preferences of your clients/students

✦ Qualified in a neurodivergent trauma-informed approach

✦ Taught by teachers with a long history of being known as advocates and experts when it comes to supporting autistic people in a way that respects their lived experience and autonomy

✦ Positioned as a neurodivergence-aligned professional who understands these values and is a true ally of the neurodiversity movement.

HANDS-ON, STEP-BY-STEP GUIDANCE

Get real input, strategies, compassion, ideas, tips, techniques, and feedback. Raun and Kate are going to hold your hand and take you through every aspect of the training.

You will be able to take what you’ve learned back to your practice, and then you can take what you’ve experienced in your practice back to Raun and Kate and a supportive group of professionals who will help you, support you, and guide you. It will be an experience that substantially affects your work both during and after the training.

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THE DETAILS

Our Professional Certification Program offers a multi-pronged in-depth learning format
  • Exciting, info-packed live lectures
  • Stimulating, collaborative interactive activities
  • Extensive, pinpointed Q&A
  • Caring, step-by-step support
  • Eye-opening demonstration videos
  • Practice, feedback, and evaluation
  • Practical, real-world help in integrating the tools and concepts into your practice and dealing with challenges
  • 50+ hours of live, interactive classes
  • A three-day blockbuster in-person workshop

Interested, but have questions?

Get answers by joining us for one of our Open House Zoom meetings!

Pick a date that works best for you!

October 8th, 2024

at 7:00 am Eastern US time
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November 13th, 2024

at 12:00 pm Eastern US time
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Tuition, Dates, and Other Logistics


Tuition: $7500
Start date: April 5th, 2025
Graduation: September 20th, 2025

Online classes will be held every other Saturday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern U.S. time
(Each class will have a break of approximately 30 minutes.)

Exceptions:

There will be no online classes on the weekend of the in-person workshop.

Important:

You may miss a maximum of 2 online classes (and make up the work) and still be certified.

Online class dates:

April 5th and 26th, 2025
May 17th and 31st, 2025
June 14th and 28th, 2025
July 12th and 26th, 2025
August 9th and 23rd, 2025
September 6th and 20th, 2025

Dates of the 3-day in-person workshop:

Friday, May 2nd through Sunday, May 4th, 2025

Location:

XX Hotel in White Plains, NY (just outside of New York City)

In-person classes will be held all day each day, and there will be an evening class on Day 1 and Day 2.

If you are traveling from out of state, you will be responsible for payment to the hotel for your room. Otherwise, you may commute in for the classes if that is an option for you.

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Professional Certification Application

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