STEP 1: How does the program work?

STEP 2: How does the learning platform work?

Schedule for Live Sessions 2025

STEP 3: Coaching and Services Agreement

STEP 4: Workbooks and Online Learning Tasks

STEP 5: What is A.R.T? (video - 5 min)

BONUS: Pre-Course Reading Materials

WEEK 1 - STEP 1: Download Your Workbook

WEEK 1 - STEP 2: Historical Context of Autism and Disability

WEEK 1 - STEP 3: A Quick Eastern Appreciation of Autism and History (audio - 2 mins)

WEEK 1 - STEP 4: History of Autism (video - 6 min)

WEEK 1 - STEP 5: History of Autism Therapy (presentation - 85 mins)

WEEK 1 - STEP 6: Leo Kanner's 1943 paper on autism

WEEK 2 - STEP 1: The Neurodiversity Rights Movement

WEEK 2 - STEP 2: Ethan Lisi - What it’s really like to have autism? (video - 10 min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 3: Autism Rights Movement

WEEK 2 - STEP 4: Against Neurodiversity, Moheb Costandi

WEEK 2 - STEP 5: Dissenting Autistic Voices

WEEK 3 - STEP 1: Autism: History and Diagnosis

WEEK 3 - STEP 2: Deficit Medical Model vs Cultural Model

WEEK 3 - STEP 3: My Inner Life with Asperger's | Alix Generous | TED Talks (video - 11 min)

WEEK 4 - STEP 1: Disability and Social Justice

WEEK 4 - STEP 2: Nkem Ndefo (presentation)

WEEK 4 - STEP 3: Autism and the Criminal Justice System

WEEK 5 - STEP 1: Shifting Paradigms

WEEK 5 - STEP 2: Shifting Paradigms (video - 40 secs)

Week 6: STEP 1: A Healing Setting (video - 40 mins)

WEEK 6 - STEP 2: A Healing Setting (presentation)

WEEK 6 - STEP 3: A Healing Setting (article)

Module 1 Live Call (audio) 2024

Live call recording 17Feb2025

Summary of Reflections

Module 1 Quiz

Feedback Survey

The Polyvagal Landscape

WEEK 1 - STEP 1: Download your Workbook

WEEK 1 - STEP 2: Introduction to Polyvagal Theory (video - 13 min)

WEEK 1 - STEP 3: Polyvagal Theory (presentation)

WEEK 1 - STEP 4: Anatomy of the Vagus Nerve

WEEK 1 - STEP 5: Anatomy of the Vagus Nerve (presentation)

WEEK 1 - STEP 6: The Polyvagal Theory in images (presentation)

WEEK 2 - Introduction

WEEK 2 - STEP 1: Stephen W. Porges: The Polyvagal Theory - Essay

WEEK 2 - STEP 2: The Polyvagal Theory - A Science of Safety (article)

WEEK 2 - STEP 3: The Vagal Paradox: A Polyvagal Solution (article)

WEEK 2 - STEP 5: PVT Discussions

WEEK 2 - STEP 6: PVT Discussions (presentation)

WEEK 3 - STEP 1: Neuroception (video - 6 min)

WEEK 3 - STEP 2: Neuroception (presentation)

WEEK 3 - STEP 3: Stephen Porges interview (video - 45 mins)

WEEK 3 - STEP 4: Peter Levine (video - 30 mins)

WEEK 3 - STEP 5: Neuroception - Claire Wilson TED (video - 17 min)

WEEK 4 - STEP 1: Interoception

WEEK 4 - STEP 2: Applying Interoception Skills in the Classroom (article)

WEEK 4: STEP 3: Interoception (video - 6min)

WEEK 4 - STEP 4: Interoception (video - 4 min)

WEEK 4 - STEP 5: Interoception: The Forgotten Modality (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 6: A Systematic Review (article)

WEEK 5 - STEP 1: Anxiety (video - 3 min)

WEEK 5 - STEP 2: Anxiety Presentation and Audio

WEEK 5 - STEP 3: Brain/Body Connection

WEEK 5 - STEP 3: PRESENTATION: Brain/Body Connection

WEEK 5 - STEP 4: Listening to your heart might be the key to conquering anxiety (article)

WEEK 5 - STEP 5: Autistic Inertia (audio - 2min)

WEEK 5 - STEP 6: Autistic Inertia

WEEK 6 - STEP 1: In My Language - (video - 10 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 2: Adyashanti – The Boundless Heart (video - 10min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 3: The Boundless Heart Discussion (video - 30 min)

WEEK 6 - Bonus Material: The Boundless Heart (presentation)

WEEK 6 - Bonus Material: Meatmobile - a piece by Amber Naali Aelfgifu Kefir'ah

A.R.T. in Depth Module 2 Quiz

Module 2 live call 20 May 2024 (audio - 1hr50min)

Live call 17 March 2025

Module 3: Presuming Competence

WEEK 1 - STEP 1: Download your Workbook

WEEK 1 - STEP 2: Presuming Competence: How Much Do You Already Know?

WEEK 1 - STEP 3: Presume Competence (audio - 6 mins)

WEEK 1 -STEP 4: Presume Competence (presentation - 28 mins)

WEEK 1 - STEP 5: A Reconstruction of the Sensory World of Autism

WEEK 2 - STEP 1: Alternate Physical Realities

WEEK 2- STEP 2: How I Use Sonar to Navigate the World (video - 13 min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 3: Ocean Sounds (video - 11 mins)

WEEK 2- STEP 4: Quiet Spaces (video - 10 min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 5: You Can Smell with Your Body Not Just Your Nose (video - 7 min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 6: Seeing Sound: How Synaesthesia Can Change Our Thinking (video - 14 min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 7: Synaesthesia and What it Has Taught Me (video - 11 mins)

WEEK 2 - STEP 8: When 2+2 Equals Green (video - 14 mins)

WEEK 2 - STEP 9: The Curious World of Synaesthesia (video - 20 mins)

WEEK 3: Future Humans

WEEK 3- STEP 1: Will Our Kids be a Different Species? (video - 16 mins)

WEEK 3 - STEP 2: My Brain Isn't Broken (video - 12 mins)

WEEK 3 - STEP 3: Embrace the Potential of Autism (video - 12 mins)

WEEK 3: STEP 4: Predicting Overload (video - 10 mins)

WEEK 3 - STEP 5: The Superpower of Autism (video - 14 mins)

WEEK 3 - STEP 6: The Divided Brain (video - 12 mins)

WEEK 3 -STEP 7: Telepathy and Autistic Savants (video - 52 mins)

WEEK 4 - STEP 1: Redefining Neurodiverse Research and Practice

WEEK 4 - STEP 2: Listening to the Autistic Voice (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 3: The Autistic Scientists Redefining Autism Research (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 4: Reframing Autism: Holly Bridges (article)

WEEK 5 - STEP 1: Introduction to A.R.T. Exercises

WEEK 5 - STEP 2: Introduction to A.R.T. Exercises

WEEK 5 - STEP 3: Ott Ball Video

Hara Ball - Practical Points

WEEK 5 -STEP 4: Hand Points Exercise

Hand Points - Bonus Material

Hara Hand Points - Practical Points

WEEK 6 - STEP 1: Unpacking the Who, What and How of A.R.T.

WEEK 6 - STEP 2: Case Histories

Reframing Wrap-up and Reflection (audio - 4 mins)

Module 3 Quiz

Module 3 Live Call Replay 2024(audio)

Recommended Reading List

Download your Workbook HERE

Module 4 - Neuroplasticity and the Path of Change

WEEK 1 - STEP 1 Introduction: How Much Do You Already Know?

WEEK 1 - STEP 2 Introduction to Neuroplasticity (audio - 2.5 min)

WEEK 1 - STEP 3: Brain that Changes Itself (video - 55min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 1: Movement, Learning and Brain Plasticity (video - 70min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 2: Improving Our Neuroplasticity (video - 20min)

WEEK 3 -STEP 1: Neuroplasticity Science (video - 68min)

WEEK 4 - STEP 1: Brain Structure Changes In Autism (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 2: Relation of the Pineal Gland to Autism (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 3: No Way Out - Autistic Inertia (article)

WEEK 5 -STEP 2: Gate Control Theory and The Brain (article)

WEEK 5 -STEP 3: Nerves That Sense Touch May Play a Role in Autism (article)

WEEK 5 - STEP 4: Social decision making in autism: The impact of mirror neurons (article)

WEEK 5 -STEP 5: Children May Have Trouble Predicting Movements (article)

WEEK 5 -STEP 6: Neuropathy, Neurosensory Disturbances and Autism (audio - 6min)

WEEK 5 - STEP 7: Criticisms of The Polyvagal Theory and Gate Control Theory (audio - 7min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 1: Breath ~ Wave ~ Sound ~ Movement (video - 6min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 2: Movement Therapy and A.R.T. (audio - 5min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 3: Wrap Up To Neuroplasticity (audio - 6min)

Module 4 Quiz

Module 4 live call recording 2024(audio)

Download your Workbook HERE

Module 5: Fields of Potential

WEEK 1 - STEP 1: Fields of Potential (audio - 5min)

WEEK 1 - STEP 2: Brain Waves

WEEK 1 - STEP 3: Brain Wave Rebirth: Dr James Hardt (video - 36min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 1: Tracking the Risks and Rewards of TMS (article)

WEEK 2 - STEP 2: 'Broken Mirror’ Concept of Autism (article)

WEEK 3 - STEP 1: The Perils of Neuroscience (article-videos)

WEEK 3 - STEP 2: The Breakout Potential of Your Neuroaesthetic Self (presentation)

WEEK 4 - STEP 1: Epigenetics and Quantum Mechanics (video - 34min)

WEEK 5 - STEP 1: Rewire, Reroute or Reimagine... It's all still magic!

WEEK 5 - STEP 2: Rainbow Connection, Kermit the Frog (video -

WEEK 5 - STEP 3: Your Personal Fields of Potential (audio - 3min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 1: Case Study - Unpacking the Who/What How of A.R.T. (article)

Module 5 Quiz

Module 5 Live Call Replay 2024(audio)

Download your Workbook HERE

WEEK 1 - STEP 1: Introduction: how much do you already know?

WEEK 1 - STEP 2: Welcome and Introduction from Holly (audio - 4 min)

WEEK 1 - STEP 3: Are We Living in a Dark Age? (video - 50min)

WEEK 1 - STEP 4: Perception and Somatosensation (presentation)

WEEK 2- STEP 1: The Architecture of Connective Tissue (article)

WEEK 2- STEP 2: Mechanoreceptors (article)

WEEK 2- STEP 3: - Somatosensation (video - 15 mins)

WEEK 3- STEP 1: Neuroanatomy of Grief (article)

WEEK 3- STEP 2: Vagus Nerve as Modulator of the Brain–Gut Axis (article)

WEEK 3- STEP 3: Brainstem Map for Visceral Sensations (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 1: Sensing with Your Feet! (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 2: How Elephants Listen...With Their Feet (video - 5min)

WEEK 4 - STEP 2: Mapping of the Human Foot: Thresholds at 30 Skin Locations (article abstract)

WEEK 4 - STEP 3: Exercise is Critical to Brain and Nervous System Health (article)

WEEK 4 - STEP 4: What’s Been Missing from Rehabilitation (video - 60 mins)

WEEK 4 - STEP 5: Is What Fascia Looks Like! (video - 3min)

WEEK 5 - STEP 1: Skymions and Motion (article - video)

WEEK 5 - STEP 2: Octopus Teacher (video - 18min)

Wrap Up - Perception and Somatosensation (audio - 2 min)

Module 6 Live Call 2024

Module 6 Quiz

WEEK 1 - STEP 1: Download your Workbook

WEEK 1 - STEP 1 Introduction: how much do you already know?

WEEK 1 - STEP 2: Introduction to the Enteric Nervous System (audio - 10 min)

WEEK 1 - STEP 3: Hara

WEEK 1 - STEP 4: Hara (presentation - 45 min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 1: Whiteness As Trauma In The Body (video - 27 min)

WEEK 2 - STEP 2: East and West think in profoundly different ways

WEEK 2 - STEP 3 Enteric Nervous System

WEEK 3 - STEP 4: Enteric Nervous System with Peggy Mason (video - 8 min)

WEEK 3 - STEP 5: Dan Tien, does it really exist? (video - 4 min)

WEEK 4 - STEP 1: Mesentery - A 'New' organ

WEEK 4 - STEP 2: The Mesentery (Anatomy)

WEEK 4 - STEP 3: The Lesser Sac

WEEK 5 - STEP 1: Is our most distant animal relative a sponge or a comb jelly?

WEEK 5 - STEP 2: Animal development: We're just tubes (video - 11 min)

WEEK 5 - STEP 3: Are fish smart? Do They Have Personalities? (video - 16 min)

WEEK 5 - STEP 4: Your Inner Fish

WEEK 5 - STEP 5: In Ocean - Saani Bennetts

WEEK 6 - STEP 1: Thirteen Pairs of Cranial Nerves

WEEK 6 - STEP 2: Nerve Zero (video - 18 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 3: Terminal Nerve

WEEK 6 - STEP 4: Cranial Nerves XIII and XIV (article)

WEEK 6 - STEP 5: BONUS - 13th Cranial Nerve: Discussion (audio - 6 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 6: Meditation on the Third Eye

WEEK 6 - STEP 7: Is the Pineal Gland REALLY the Third Eye? (video - 9 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 8: The Third Eye (video - 15 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 9: Insight into shark magnetic field perception from empirical observations (article)

WEEK 6 - STEP 10: The Potency of the Dorsal State (article)

WEEK 6 - STEP 11: Traditional Chinese Mind-Body / Aspergers (article)

WEEK 6 - STEP 12: Danny Raede & the 'profoundly life-changing' benefits of Holly's approach (video - 2 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 13: Mother of teen (video - 6 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 14: Mohan Vijnana

WEEK 6 - STEP 15: Enteric Nervous System Wrap Up (audio - 9 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 16: Examining A.R.T. Exercises vs Other Modalities

WEEK 6 - STEP 17: The Secret POWER of Wu Chi (video - 6 min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 18: How to Align Your Hara (video - 3min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 19: Dr Joe Dispenza (2020) - Pineal Gland Activation (video - 13min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 20: How to Tap with Jessica Ortner (video - 4min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 21: Beginner Yoga Poses (video - 3min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 22: Hand Points Exercise (video - 6min)

WEEK 6 - STEP 23: The Ball Exercise (video - 9min)

Thank you!