A 3-Part Live Workshop Series
Neurodivergence in Practice:
A Brain–Body Framework for ADHD and Autism in Clinical Care
A 3-part Workshop with BG Mancini, AP, FMP, MS
- August 17th, 24th, and 31st, 2026
- 9am-11am PT · 10am-12pm MT · 12-2pm ET · 5pm-7pm BST
Live, online & interactive
A Note From BG
Dear Colleagues,
For over 30 years, I have worked alongside children, adults, families, and clinicians through a neurointegrative lens for mental and physical health to support feeling better in our moment-to-moment lived experience.
Using the latest in neuroscience and research to understand why access to regulation changes, what’s impacting us, and how we restore resilience.
Many of us have seen the following:
A child who communicates beautifully one moment and cannot access those same skills the next.
An adult who knows what helps them regulate, yet cannot reach those strategies when sensory, physiological, emotional, and cognitive demands accumulate.
This is the lens that led me to develop the Brain–Gut–Sensory Framework that I look forward to sharing.
Within it lives the Metabolic Window of Tolerance™, a way of understanding fluctuating capacity through the body systems that shape access, regulation, communication, attention, flexibility, and recovery.
In the past few years, I’ve often been asked where topics like the microbiome, blood sugar, sensory processing, sleep, inflammation, movement, and autonomic state fit into the neurodivergent conversation:
My answer is…everywhere!
These systems influence our mood, resilience, regulation, connection, and daily capacity for every person with a body, regardless of diagnosis. And while this training will focus on how we help clients with neurodivergence, we are also living inside bodies that are subject to overwhelm, sensory load, brain-gut signaling, stress physiology, inflammation, and nervous system shifts~ this is information that applies to us all.
Research confirms that neurodivergent individuals often have systems that may be more reactive, more sensitive to cumulative load, and require different types of support, including movement, environmental changes, and sensory support.
Supporting individuals with language that helps them name what may be affecting them starts a new conversation within the therapy room and within themselves.
In this training, we will look at the 9 sensory systems, including vestibular, proprioceptive, interoceptive, and neuroceptive input, and how these inputs shape how a person experiences themselves, other people, and the world around them.
You will learn the MicroResets™ I use clinically to help individuals recognize patterns, support regulation, promote recovery, and create conditions for nervous system flexibility to emerge. These small compounding tools can reduce the load on a stressed nervous system, leaving more reserves and resilience in place.
These include movement-based tools, somatic supports, sensory-informed strategies, and vagus nerve-supporting practices that can be adapted for the client in front of you.
I will share what patients across clinical settings have found most helpful, including how small, well-timed supports can change access to regulation, communication, flexibility, and connection.
This is a roadmap and language that helps restore hope and agency for clients, families, and the many neurodivergent individuals who have spent years wondering why things that seem easy for others can sometimes feel so hard.
When people understand what is influencing their experience, they often meet themselves with more compassion, and when they understand that some of those influences can be supported, modified, or reduced, a sense of empowerment begins to return.
And from that place, meaningful change becomes more possible.
Warmly,
BG Mancini
Who It’s For
Who Is This Workshop Series For?
This workshop is designed for helping professionals who want a deeper, more integrated understanding of ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and neurodivergent experiences through the lens of the brain, body, sensory systems, physiology, and environment.
Whether you work directly with neurodivergent individuals or support families navigating regulation, communication, sensory sensitivity, transitions, emotional intensity, or fluctuating capacity, this training will provide practical frameworks you can immediately apply in your work.
This series is especially valuable for:
- Therapists, counselors, psychotherapists, and social workers seeking a more systems-informed approach to ADHD, autism, and AuDHD.
- Psychologists and mental health professionals supporting clients with emotional regulation, executive functioning differences, sensory sensitivity, overwhelm, shutdown, or fluctuating access to skills
- Occupational therapists, speech-language professionals, educators, and allied health practitioners working with neurodivergent individuals.
- Family support professionals, coaches, and caregivers who want a deeper understanding of what may be influencing daily capacity, communication, and functioning.
- Clinicians interested in integrating nervous system regulation, sensory processing, Brain–Gut insights, and practical MicroResets™ into their work.
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If you have ever supported a client who seemed capable in one moment and overwhelmed in another, or wondered why regulation, communication, flexibility, and executive functioning can shift so dramatically, this workshop is designed to give you a clearer map.
You will leave with a deeper understanding of the factors influencing nervous system state, communication, emotional regulation, sensory processing, flexibility, and executive functioning, along with practical tools to help clients and families move toward greater regulation, resilience, self-understanding, and agency.
The Timing
Why This Workshop Is Especially Important Now
More people than ever are seeking support for ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and neurodivergence. At the same time, we are increasingly recognizing that attention, communication, emotional regulation, executive functioning, and daily capacity cannot be fully understood through one lens.
Research continues to point toward the powerful influence of sensory processing, nervous system state, sleep, inflammation, stress physiology, metabolic health, environmental demands, and the Brain–Gut connection on how people think, feel, communicate, connect, and function.
Yet many helping professionals and medical providers have received little training in how these systems interact or how to recognize their impact in clinical practice.
This workshop offers an integrated, lived-experience lens.
Rather than viewing overwhelm, shutdown, emotional intensity, reduced flexibility, or fluctuating access to communication as isolated challenges, this training helps you recognize the sensory, physiological, autonomic, and environmental factors that may be shaping a client’s experience in the moment.
This shift can transform how clinicians understand capacity, state changes, and access to skills.
The result is more than clinical insight. It is the ability to work with increased confidence, compassion, and effectiveness, helping clients and families move from confusion and self-blame toward greater understanding, regulation, flexibility, and resilience.
When we understand what influences capacity, we can better support meaningful and sustainable change.
The Curriculum
What You'll Learn
Session 1 August 17th, 2026 from 10-12pm CT | 12-2pm ET | 5-7pm BST
The Brain–Gut Connection in ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD
Understanding the Physiological and Sensory Contributors to Regulation, Access, and Capacity
Many experiences commonly associated with ADHD, autism, and AuDHD, including overwhelm, shutdown, fluctuating attention, changes in communication, emotional intensity, and shifts in nervous system state, may be influenced by factors that extend far beyond what can be observed on the surface.
In this opening session, you will explore the Brain–Gut–Sensory Framework and learn how nervous system state, sleep, blood sugar regulation, inflammation, interoception, sensory load, autonomic tone, and Brain–Gut signaling can shape a person’s moment-to-moment experience.
You’ll learn to:
- Recognize how the brain, body, gut, and sensory systems work together to influence regulation, communication, focus, flexibility, and outward expression.
- Understand the role of the Metabolic Window of Tolerance™ in fluctuating capacity and state-dependent access to skills.
- Identify physiological stressors that may impact nervous system flexibility, emotional regulation, communication, and daily functioning.
- Apply the lens of Frequency, Intensity, and Duration, or FID, to better recognize patterns of load, regulation, and recovery.
- Introduce foundational MicroResets™ and autonomic organizational tools that support grounding, regulation, and recovery.
- Begin recognizing what may be increasing allostatic load or reducing access in the client sitting in front of you.
Session 1
By the end of this session, you will have a more complete understanding of the physiological contributors that may be influencing your clients’ experiences, along with practical strategies to begin supporting regulation from the inside out.
Session 2
Session 2 August 24th, 2026 from 10-12pm CT | 12-2pm ET | 5-7pm BST
Sensory Processing, Overload, and Nervous System State
Understanding How Sensory Load Shapes Communication, Flexibility, and Regulation
Why might a client have more access to regulation, communication, and flexibility in one environment, yet experience overwhelm, shutdown, agitation, or reduced access in another?
The answer often lives in sensory processing and the cumulative impact of environmental demands.
In this session, you will explore how sound, lighting, movement, transitions, clutter, unpredictability, screens, internal body cues, and other forms of sensory input can influence nervous system state, emotional regulation, communication, participation, and access to skills.
You’ll learn to:
- Recognize how sensory processing shapes autonomic state, communication, emotional expression, regulation, and connection.
- Identify sensory contributors that may be influencing shutdown, agitation, overwhelm, reduced flexibility, or changes in participation.
- Notice how sensory load accumulates over time and changes access to skills, connection, and recovery.
- Use the FID framework to track patterns of sensory input, nervous system load, recovery, and capacity.
- Adapt sensory-informed and movement-based MicroResets™ for therapy sessions, homes, classrooms, and daily life.
- Use practical tools that can stay in the room to support different nervous system needs, including movement, rhythm, orienting, grounding, breath, proprioceptive input, and vagus nerve supportive strategies.
You will leave with a deeper understanding of how sensory experiences shape nervous system state,
communication, participation, and daily functioning, along with practical tools to help create conditions that
support regulation rather than overwhelm.
Session 3 August 31st, 2026 from 10-12pm CT | 12-2pm ET | 5-7pm BST
Capacity, State Shifts, and Supporting Fluctuating Access to Skills
Understanding Why Capacity Changes and How to Support Greater Flexibility, Recovery, and Resilience
One of the most misunderstood aspects of ADHD, autism, and AuDHD is that access to skills is often state-dependent.
A person may know what to do, want to do it, and have demonstrated the ability before, yet be unable to access that same capacity in a different nervous system state.
In this final session, you will explore how chronic stress, masking, sensory load, social demand, transitions, interoceptive cues, sleep, inflammation, and physiological reserves can influence executive functioning, communication, emotional regulation, flexibility, and daily functioning.
You’ll learn to:
- Recognize why capacity fluctuates and what may influence access to skills in the moment
- Identify how nervous system state shapes executive functioning, communication, organization, flexibility, and emotional regulation
- Understand the relationship between stress, recovery, reserves, and long-term resilience
- Support sustainable regulation rather than relying only on short-term coping strategies
- Use FID patterns to observe regulation, recovery, and reserve-building over time
- Integrate layered MicroResets™ and somatic supports that foster co-regulation, predictability, recovery, and nervous system flexibility
- Help clients build greater access to strengths, skills, connection, and daily functioning over time
Session 3
By the end of this session, you will have practical tools for understanding fluctuating capacity through a nervous system lens, along with ways to help clients understand themselves and build greater resilience, flexibility, and access to their strengths.
The Outcomes
This workshop series is designed to help you move beyond surface-level explanations and develop a more integrated understanding of the interconnected factors influencing ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and neurodivergent experiences.
After This Training, You'll Be Better Able To:
Recognize how nervous system state, sensory processing, physiology, Brain-Gut signaling, and environmental demands interact to influence regulation, communication, and daily functioning
Identify sensory, metabolic, autonomic, inflammatory, and Brain-Gut factors that may influence nervous system regulation, capacity, and access to skills
Understand why executive functioning, communication, flexibility, and emotional regulation can fluctuate throughout the day
Apply the lens of Frequency, Intensity, and Duration, or FID, to identify patterns of load, regulation, and recovery
Recognize how sensory load, environmental demands, and physiological factors may influence nervous system flexibility and access to capacity
Integrate practical MicroResets™ and autonomic organizational tools into clinical work, caregiver support, educational settings, and daily life
Use movement-based, somatic, sensory-informed, and vagus nerve supportive tools to support different nervous system needs in the room
Support neurodivergent individuals from a systems-informed perspective that honors adaptation, strengths, and lived experience
Reduce shame for clients and families by helping them understand the factors influencing their experiences with greater curiosity, compassion, and clarity
Develop a more integrated clinical framework for ADHD, autism, and AuDHD so that interventions become more precise, compassionate, and practical
Help clients build greater nervous system flexibility, predictability, recovery capacity, and access to their strengths over time
Whether you work directly with neurodivergent individuals or support families seeking to better understand regulation, communication, sensory experiences, and fluctuating access to daily functioning, you will leave this training with practical tools, a clearer clinical lens, and a deeper understanding of the complex systems that influence how people think, feel, communicate, connect, and function.
The Difference
What Makes This Training Different?
There is no shortage of information about ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and neurodivergence.
Yet many clinicians, educators, caregivers, and neurodivergent individuals are still left asking:
Why does capacity fluctuate so dramatically?
Why do strategies work one day and not the next?
Why can someone have insight, motivation, and support, yet still lose access to regulation, communication, flexibility, or executive functioning in certain states or environments?
What makes this training different is that it moves beyond symptoms and diagnoses to explore the interconnected systems that influence how people think, feel, communicate, regulate, connect, and function.
Rather than focusing on behavior in isolation, BG Mancini’s Brain-Gut-Sensory Framework examines the dynamic relationship between the nervous system, sensory processing, physiology, sleep, inflammation, stress, environmental demands, movement, and Brain-Gut communication.
This workshop offers:
- An integrated systems-based framework for understanding ADHD, autism, and AuDHD through a broader and more clinically useful lens
- A focus on the interconnected factors influencing lived experience, rather than viewing challenges only through symptoms or diagnoses
- Practical tools that can be applied immediately in therapy sessions, caregiver support, educational settings, and everyday life
- Movement-based, somatic, sensory-informed, and vagus nerve supportive tools that can be used in the room to support different nervous system needs
- A compassionate, shame-reducing approach that helps clients and families better understand their experiences without viewing themselves as broken or deficient
- A framework for understanding state-dependent functioning and why access to skills, communication, executive functioning, and emotional regulation can change from moment to moment
- Experiential learning through MicroResets™ and autonomic organizational tools so clinicians can personally experience the concepts being taught and confidently integrate them into their work
- A balance of neuroscience, neurointegrative medicine, clinical application, and real-world relevance so that complex concepts become practical tools for supporting regulation, recovery, flexibility, and resilience
Most importantly, this training helps shift the clinical question toward:
“What is this system adapting to, and what support would make access, regulation, safety, and connection more available?”
That shift can transform how we understand neurodivergent experiences, and how we support the individuals and families we serve.
Your Presenter
Meet your presenter…
BG Mancini, AP, FMP, MS
BG is a Neurodevelopmental Specialist, Advanced Certified in Functional Medicine, and has been licensed as an Acupuncture Physician and Primary Care Provider since 2013. She is the founder of The Brain & Gut Institute and the creator of The Family Nervous System®, a model that helps families understand that healing is never just about one individual—it’s about the living system we call a family.
With nearly 30 years of clinical experience, BG has worked with more than 7,000 patients and trained over 600 clinicians. Her work integrates biomedical, nervous system, and neurodevelopmental approaches to help children and adults unlock their unique potential.
An international speaker and trainer, BG brings together Polyvagal Theory, brain-gut axis research, and sensory and neurodevelopmental science to help clinicians better understand the physiological and sensory factors that influence communication, participation, regulation, and what we often observe as behavior.” Her work makes complex science accessible and practical, offering tools that support nervous system balance and true healing.
Enrollment
Neurodivergence in Practice:
A Brain–Body Framework for ADHD
and Autism in Clinical Care
$247
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the live call dates/times?
Not at all. This workshop is designed for therapists, social workers, psychologists, counselors, coaches, educators, occupational therapists, speech-language professionals, and other helping professionals who want a deeper understanding of neurodivergent experiences through a nervous system-informed lens.
Whether neurodivergent clients make up your entire caseload or just a portion of your practice, you’ll gain practical frameworks and tools you can immediately integrate into your work.
Can I earn Continuing Education credits?
There are some CE’s available for these sessions, please click HERE to learn more.
Do I need to specialize in ADHD or autism to benefit from this workshop?
Not at all. This workshop is designed for therapists, social workers, psychologists, counselors, coaches, educators, occupational therapists, speech-language professionals, and other helping professionals who want a deeper understanding of neurodivergent experiences through a nervous system-informed lens.
Whether neurodivergent clients make up your entire caseload or just a portion of your practice, you’ll gain practical frameworks and tools you can immediately integrate into your work.
Is this workshop appropriate for clinicians who work with adults as well as children?
The live call dates are August 17th, 24th, and 31st at 10am-12pm CT | 12-2pm EST | 5-7pm BST
How is this different from other ADHD or autism trainings?
Many trainings focus primarily on behavior, diagnosis, or therapeutic interventions.
This workshop takes an integrated systems-based approach, exploring how nervous system state, sensory processing, physiology, sleep, inflammation, the brain-gut connection, and environmental factors interact to influence regulation, communication, executive functioning, and daily capacity.
Rather than asking, “What’s wrong?” you’ll learn to ask, “What might be influencing this person’s capacity right now?”
Will this workshop provide practical strategies I can use right away?
Absolutely.
Throughout the series, BG introduces practical frameworks, autonomic organizational tools, and MicroResets™ that can be incorporated into therapy sessions, caregiver education, educational environments, and everyday life.
You’ll leave with tools you can begin using immediately.
Is this workshop evidence-informed?
Yes.
The Brain-Gut-Sensory Framework draws on current research related to the autonomic nervous system, Polyvagal Theory, sensory processing, the brain-gut axis, sleep, inflammation, neurodevelopment, physiology, and functional medicine, while translating these complex concepts into practical clinical applications.
What are MicroResets™?
MicroResets™ are brief, practical nervous system supports designed to promote regulation, recovery, predictability, and greater nervous system flexibility.
Throughout the workshop, you’ll experience these practices yourself while learning how to thoughtfully integrate them into your work with clients and families.
Will this training help me better understand fluctuating capacity?
Yes. In fact, this is one of the central themes of the workshop.
You’ll learn why communication, emotional regulation, executive functioning, flexibility, attention, and daily functioning may vary from one moment or environment to another—and how understanding these fluctuations can transform your clinical perspective.
Is this training only relevant for neurodivergent clients?
No.
While the workshop focuses on ADHD, autism, and AuDHD, the integrated Brain-Gut-Sensory Framework explores principles of nervous system functioning that are relevant to all people.
Many clinicians find that the concepts they learn enhance their work across a wide variety of client populations.
I've already taken Polyvagal or nervous system trainings. Will I still learn something new?
Yes.
While this workshop incorporates nervous system science, it extends beyond Polyvagal Theory by integrating sensory processing, physiology, metabolic health, brain-gut communication, environmental influences, and cumulative physiological load into one cohesive clinical framework.
Many participants find that it helps connect concepts they’ve previously learned into a more practical and clinically applicable whole.
I don't have a medical background. Will I be able to understand the physiology?
Yes.
One of BG’s greatest strengths is making complex science approachable and clinically meaningful. This workshop is designed to translate neuroscience, physiology, sensory processing, and brain-gut research into concepts that are engaging, accessible, and immediately useful in practice.
Will recordings be available if I can't attend live?
Yes, you’ll receive access to the recordings through our student platform, so you can watch (or re-watch) at a time that’s convenient for you.
How long will I have access to the recordings?
Your registration includes lifetime access, allowing you to revisit the material whenever you need a refresher or want to deepen your understanding as your practice evolves.
What will I walk away with after completing this workshop?
By the end of the series, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how nervous system state, sensory processing, physiology, environmental influences, and the brain-gut connection interact to shape neurodivergent experiences.
More importantly, you’ll leave with practical frameworks, MicroResets™, and a new clinical lens that can help you support clients and families with greater confidence, compassion, curiosity, and effectiveness.
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