Applying a Brain-Gut-Sensory Lens to ADHD, Autism, and the Neurodivergence Spectrum
Understanding What Influences Communication, Emotional Regulation, Executive Functioning, Behavior, and Daily Capacity
Monday August 10th, 2026
9:00-10:30am PST | 12:00-1:30pm EST | 5:00-6:30pm BST
Research has shown that simply helping individuals better understand the factors influencing their experience can improve outcomes.
When people begin to make sense of why attention, emotional regulation, communication, flexibility, and daily capacity fluctuate, they are often better able to navigate those experiences with less self-blame and greater confidence.
In this free webinar, you’ll explore why access to communication, attention, emotional regulation, flexibility, executive functioning, and daily capacity can fluctuate throughout the day, and why the same individual may feel capable in one environment and overwhelmed in another.
Science has proven that sensory processing, sleep, inflammation, brain-gut communication, the gut microbiome, and nervous system function can influence attention, emotional regulation, communication, behavior, executive functioning, daily capacity, and how we experience ourselves, others, and the world around us.
While these patterns are often more visible in ADHD, autism, and AuDHD, they reflect fundamental principles of human physiology that influence all of us.
This presentation will explore how sensory, physiological, environmental, microbial, and nervous system influences may be shaping what individuals are experiencing in real time. This webinar offers a roadmap to the physiology that influences how we experience ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Most importantly, you’ll discover how learning to identify and name what may be influencing a person’s experience can increase predictability, reduce confusion, and create opportunities for greater agency and support.
BG will also introduce practical MicroResets™ and educational strategies that can be integrated into both the therapy room and everyday life to support greater flexibility, regulation, recovery, and resilience.
In This Free Webinar, You'll Discover:
Why access to communication, emotional regulation, executive functioning, flexibility, and daily capacity can fluctuate throughout the day,
helping explain why the same client may have greater access to their skills, strengths, and capacity one day and feel overwhelmed the next, so that you can better understand what may be happening beneath the surface when a client’s abilities seem inconsistent or unpredictable.
Research-Based insights into how sensory processing, sleep, inflammation, the gut microbiome, and nervous system function may influence behavior, relationships, therapeutic progress, and executive functioning,
so that you can identify hidden physiological contributors that may be influencing progress, behavior, and emotional well-being.
How learning to identify and name what may be influencing a person’s experience can help increase agency,
so that clients can develop a clearer understanding of their experiences and feel more empowered to work with their nervous systems rather than against them.
Environmental and sensory modifications that may help reduce physiological load and support regulation,
so that you can reduce unnecessary stressors and create environments that better support regulation and capacity.
Practical ways to integrate these insights into both the therapy room and everyday life,
so that you leave with practical, immediately applicable tools that can support greater flexibility, regulation, and resilience both in and outside the therapy room.
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 roots of what we often label as “behavior.” Her work makes complex science accessible and practical, offering tools that support nervous system balance and true healing.
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