Core Course

Welcome to the start of your Orchid Kid parenting journey.

You’ve come to the right place!

A different way of understanding your child starts here.

Parenting an Orchid Kid can bring moments of deep connection—and moments that leave you wondering what just happened. Our Core Course is designed to help you understand what may be happening beneath the behavior, respond with greater confidence, and build practical strategies that support your child and your family.

Self-Paced Online Learning

Our Core Course is an 8-week online course designed to help you better understand your neurodivergent child and develop practical, usable strategies for supporting them at home, at school, and in the world.

Each week, you’ll receive a video lesson and supporting resources. The course is asynchronous, so you can watch, pause, reflect, and revisit the material at your own pace.

The course is designed to be practical and rewatchable. You do not need to absorb everything at once—instead, you’ll have the opportunity to return to lessons and apply what you’re learning to real-life challenges as they arise.

What You'll Learn By Joining

Over eight modules, we’ll explore what shapes your child’s behavior, how nervous-system needs influence regulation, and how to respond with greater understanding and practical support.

You’ll learn how to:

Look beneath behavior to understand what may be driving it.
Recognize the importance of safety, connection, and co-regulation.
Identify antecedents and make supportive changes before challenges escalate.
Find the “just right challenge” for your child.
Use brain and body language to build self-awareness.
Approach consequences as opportunities for learning and repair.
Develop tools to support your own regulation and well-being.

View Syllabus (PDF)

Who Is This Course For?

This course is for parents and caregivers of neurodivergent children, whether or not their child has an official diagnosis.

It may be especially helpful if you find yourself:

Wondering why strategies that work for other children do not seem to work for yours.
Feeling stuck in repeated behavior challenges.
Wanting to understand what is happening beneath the behavior.
Looking for practical ways to support regulation, connection, and confidence.
Trying to move away from “shoulds” and toward a more individualized approach.

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I liked the concept of antecedents. Spending the time figuring out what is the thing that is stressing my child out about this situation when they can't tell me when I ask them what is wrong. He's not going to always know himself but doesn't mean it's a black box. I think that's how I felt sometimes before this course. That’s not to say there aren’t times when I have no idea what set something off, but now there are more times where I can tell myself ‘I understand what’s happening here.’
Becca T.Core Course, Winter 2025

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I learned about shifting perspectives. I feel like I’m better able to toggle to a different perspective on a situation.
Sarah K.Core Course, Winter 2025

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The course opened up my eyes. I have been very isolated. But I’ve done a lot of learning by hearing about other parents' struggles. Other circles I’ve been to have had children in the same age group as my kid, but they’re not where he is mentally and socially. It’s made me want to seek out other parents who have kids like my kids.
Bertha A.Core Course, Winter 2025

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I'm now setting my child up so he is feeling safer in those spaces. Those moments are improving. While we were doing this class, he did say he feels like he’s left behind. He's not learning like the other kids. So a lot of breakthroughs in that regard, even for me. I had been saying too many ‘shoulds’ but now I say ‘No, he can’t do this right now, but maybe we can work towards it.’ It’s helped me a lot.
Bertha A.Core Course, Winter 2025

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I feel like I personally have a whole notebook of stuff that I'm still chewing on. Especially this idea that ‘orchids would if they could’ and that they're inconsistent. Also, when we watched the consequences session I realized there’s so much stuff in there that pushes my thinking and that we want to play around with and talk about. I really appreciate the sense of connection I felt here.
Katherine M.Core Course, Winter 2025

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What stood out to me is ‘trust yourself to make a decision and trust yourself to make a different decision if it turns out that’s not right.’ I think that sometimes it can feel like there's so much coming at us and that we need to make the perfect decision right away. But what you said feels like a big permission slip.
Erin L.Core Course, Winter 2025

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The event we went to last Friday night, I said ‘Hey, if it's too loud or if it's too …’ so I prepared him and set him up, giving him some agency. I checked in on those kinds of things. At one point he did say ‘it’s crowded.’ And I asked him if he wanted to go in. Next thing you know, we were there another hour. It has made such a difference just being more intentional about communication.
Tami F.Core Course, Winter 2025

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