Training and Q&As with Kieran Rose for a whole year

Most Autism training is stereotypical, wrapped up in non-Autistic behavioural-based perspectives and incredibly deficit focused and ultimately useless. It doesn't have any meaning.

The Inside of Autism strips back those stereotypes, provides insight from multiple Autistic perspectives, is grounded in up-to-date research; and shifts from a centred non-Autistic viewpoint to an Autistic one.

2024 is the second year of The Inside of Autism Membership. In 2023 we welcomed over 200 founding members and created an amazing, safe, mixed community of Autistic and non-Autistic people, professionals and non-professionals. 

My hope is that the community will keep growing and thriving as together we keep learning and reframing our understanding of the Autism narrative.

Access & Training

Happy People from around the world

Split of Autistic People, Parents & Professionals

Q&A Sessions with Kieran

Membership gives you 12 months of access to all of the training and resources along with a place on 12 monthly Q&As with Kieran (which are recorded and added to the membership).

The training will make you sit uncomfortably at first (especially if you are a professional) and is very much designed to challenge you and your current perceptions of the Autism narrative.

The Inside of Autism covers six topics which form one complete narrative arc which, when completed, will leave you in a place where you're able to think critically, and positively, about Autism and what it means to be Autistic.

The monthly Q&As sessions, led by Kieran, enable you to go even deeper in deconstructing your understanding of the Autism narrative.

You have 12 months of unlimited access to;

PLUS!

PODCAST FEED: Members can listen to the training sessions and all Q&A recordings in their favourite podcast player (Spotify not currently supported).

FREE access to TWO of Kieran's ebooks; 

An Autistic Identity and An Autistic Burnout (normally $7.50)

Membership lasts for 12 months

useful info:

• As we have international customers we show the price in $USD (we are based in the UK), but you will be charged in your own domestic currency.

• You can pay with your credit card/debit card/Paypal and you will be charged in your national currency at the daily conversion rate (much like when you buy from any international website, but use your own domestic card to pay).

• We have used the conversion rate as at 06.11.2023 to show the GBP price (please note they do change daily and you can use the currency convertor on xe.com to check)

• You may be charged tax at your local, relevant rate. The prices above are before tax. Tax is paid directly by Teachable to your tax authority and we do not receive any part of your tax.
• Payments are processed via Teachable's payment gateway and there are various payment options.
• Your membership is for a full 12 month period; starting from the day of purchase. We will will not automatically renew your membership; we will contact you before your membership ends and invite you to renew it. For example, if you purchase on 04 June 2023 you will have access until 03 June 2024. 
• If you require multiple spaces for your staff please email michelle<at>theautisticadvocate.com
• We will add you to our mailing list on purchasing the training so that we can keep you up-to-date with membership information. You can ask to be removed from our general email list at anytime.
• We have more FAQs; please scroll to the bottom of the page.

These comments are all from students of The Inside of Autism and we're grateful for each and every one.

"As a volunteer with SENDIASS I would love all SENCos to complete this course."

"This was the most valuable, emotionally-enlightening course I have EVER participated in!"

"Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and lived experiences with us. I greatly appreciate it as it helps me to become a better human, mother, and therapist."

"I’m even more proudly autistic after attending the course."

"This course allowed my hunger to be awoken, to want to work with other like-minded professionals to look differently at health care, and encouraging me to want to improve my own specialist service for every individual who comes to use it, to make their experience better."

"The explanation around stigma, trauma, invalidation, masking and mental health was powerfully described and reinforced the need to address how we speak about, understand, support autistic children/young people as clinicians"

"It was just brilliant. You taught me so much about my son in an hour; more than anyone in 8 years has."

"I’m even more proudly autistic after attending the course."

"I felt respected and seen and proud of the life I was providing for my son within our neurodivergent family."

"My mind was truly blown by all the knowledge from Kieran and I don't believe that even years down the line, with my own research, would I ever have learnt so much."

"I just wanted to express my gratitude to the whole team for putting together such an instructive, comprehensive, and grounded overview of autism"

"And the additional resources! There is so much there for me to go away and 'monotrope' with. Thank you!"

"This training has created a profound shift in my understanding both personally and professionally. As a trauma-informed, neurotypical therapist who supports neurodivergent clients, I have and will continue to work hard to check my blind spots and learn to better fulfill my values of being anti-oppressive, strength-based and collaborative in my work. The blind spot I've had thanks to my previous learning rooted in deficit-focused Autism research (not done by Autistic researchers) was alarmingly big, but thankfully is shrinking thanks to this training and connections with Autistic voices I will continue to nurture. I am grateful and humbled by the work accomplished by the presenters and during this training. This is helping me be a better human, not just a therapist, so thank you."

"It's an amazing course with lots practical resources as well as being extremely validating, more than I could have imagined to be honest."

"The Inside of Autism taught me to open my mind, open my heart, listen to my senses, listen to other people's experiences (in whichever way they communicate them, not just to mouth words) with respect and validation in mind; it taught me to think critically and constructively; and it taught me to carefully select the experts by experience who have put oodles and more oodles of thought and effort into what they know and believe, who are the people I most want to be listening to, who have most skilfully and generously shared their wisdom and in so doing they have made this world a better and safer place for many people including me and my family - thank you. Thank you for making a lifelong positive difference to me and my family."

"This was the best training I have ever taken on autism and supporting autistic people -- and I've been to a lot in the last 6 years. Being accessible and affordable was a plus. Kieran hones in on the topics that really matter and that no other training is even mentioning - the problems with diagnostic criteria, monotropism, double empathy, burnout, masking. This course should be what is recommended to parents, teachers, and mental health professionals."

Most Autism training is stereotyped, generic and behaviouralist; and fails to incorporate the insight and wealth of knowledge that exists within the worldwide Autistic community, which research is now only beginning to wake up to.

This course is designed not as Autism training, but as a challenging and stark reframing of your understanding of Autistic people, young and old, against the backdrop of a narrative that pathologises, dehumanises and stigmatises us.

If you are a Professional the course will challenge your confirmation bias and push you to removing your focus from 'autism', to refocus on Autistic *people* allowing you to reconceptualise the way you identify, work with and support Autistic people in an informed way, whether those are Autistic children or adults; and truly humanising Autistic people in the process.

If you are a parent or carer the course is designed to give you insight from the perspective of your loved-one, reframing your understanding of their behaviours and needs; and empowering you to listen to your gut and be able to advocate for them from a place of strength; enabling you to enable them to have autonomy and authenticity.

If you are Autistic the course is designed to validate your experience, help define and name those experiences in a shared and relatable way; and centre the voice of Autistic people as the centre of knowledge about autism.

Previous attendees include Autistic and non-Autistic people: Parents, Teachers and Teaching Assistants, Academics, Nurses, Doctors, clinical and research Psychologists, Psychiatrists, CAMHS and CYPS workers, MH professionals, SLTs, OTs, Local Authority workers and a whole lot more.

These were all people who recognised that the way they are working isn't working, who wanted to learn to do things differently, do better and are now doing better. Some of whom return a second or even third time because of the amount of learning that goes on and the sense of community that it encourages. 

My sincere hope the annual membership continues to build a community where everyone is welcome and everyone learns together. This is Autistic people, Autistic professionals and non-Autistic professionals being in a space together where it is SAFE to challenge, question and learn together.  

I am proud to have first created a space like this during the live rounds of training between 2020-22 and then during the first year of the Membership in 2023.

Membership lasts for 12 months

We also take on constructive feedback and have improved and updated the training based on feedback from our students. So whilst all of the comments we've shared here are positive we also just wanted to let you know that we do listen to your comments!

"Seeing, hearing and being with other autistic adults is really nice and essential. Extra nice that they come from different countries."

"‘The Inside of Autism’ is trajectory changing for all who participate. This is a must for ALL educators, professionals and families seeking to be allies to the Autistic community. Please walk in the door with Kieran. You won’t regret it! It is the ONLY course I have taken twice, and I would do so again!!"

"I am a primary school trained teacher and I have just started teaching in a special class and this course has given me soooooo much more understanding and compassion for my students."

"This was a hugely inspiring, informative, eye-opening, challenging (rightly), and powerful training course. Thank you so much."

"Just to say a big thank you. The course has been amazing.

As a parent of an autistic son (and possibly daughter who has slipped under the radar so far), my introduction to the autistic world has been quite the journey!
As a student SLT, listening to what is primarily still deficit based autism teaching has been "interesting" (and I may have got myself into trouble a few times by challenging some things!!)

But this course has been the affirming, breath of fresh air I really needed. The delivery of the course is fabulous, and the organisation and communication is brilliant."

"There is a real sense of community and it is really humbling to see important names from the autism advocacy communities taking the course alongside newbies like me, and picking up on their ideas, links and side comments has brought me a lot of extra food for thought that I wasn't expecting.

What I like most is how Kieran gets you to the essential concepts the long way, by peeling away gradually all the layers of bias, misinformation and malpractice, until you are left with a sense of validation and agency. It is a bit of a journey, but one worth taking several times, and sharing with others."

"This course was truly phenomenal. I appreciate how much time and energy went into curating and delivering it, and I have learned so much more about autism and Autistic experiences having completed it. I also found the opportunity to ask questions invaluable. It really has completely changed my understanding of autism and will impact my work (and my personal relationships) for the rest of my life. Thank you!"

"I have found the course in extremely informative, eye opening and emotional at times. I originally signed up to gain knowledge to support my daughter but I have identified with many things discussed over the week. Having experienced anxiety, social anxiety and obbessional thinking since childhood. I have always felt I never quite fitted in in many environments. This has now prompted me to seek a ASD assessment through the support of my GP. Thankyou so much it is an amazing course with lots practical resources as well as being extremely validating, more than I could have imagined to be honest."

"This is a generous and heartfelt offering to the mental health training available for professionals. All practitioners should do this training as a foundation for best practice with autistic people and as an invitation to a much deeper level of understanding and advocacy."

"Affirming, Affirming, Affirming! I'm a recently self-identified autistic woman in my 50s, so it's taking a great deal of adjustment and energy working through internal changes. This course has helped me to feel a sense of belonging that I've always been searching for. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"This course is so comprehensive, informative and gets to the nitty gritty and sometimes uncomfortable stuff. This is social justice work that Kieran is doing.

I have recommended to so many colleagues and friends. It has been life changing."

"FUCKING BRILLIANT. I have already told probably hundreds of people on the Professional FB pages I belong to about you and this, and I already signed up to request info on how to become an affiliate. I am DOWN FOR THIS FIGHT!"

"This is the most eye-opening experience of my life. I have a degree in psychology. I focused on child development and "abnormal" psych courses. The DSM was our "bible" in school (how flawed was that!). I have been working with children since I was 14 years old, for 20 years! I thought I knew autism. I thought I knew ADHD. Not only have I taken away so much information for myself, I have gained such a better understanding for my students. Especially surrounding meltdowns and shutdowns. This should be mandatory training for every educator. I have never felt so "seen" before. Having a name for the things that I do that are so different than everyone in my life, realizing that I'm not crazy - I feel so validated. Thank you!! 🙂"

"I would just like to thank you for providing me with so much information that I can now use to better understand myself and my familyalong with the increased ability to support my ND clients better.

I also appreciated the recordings. It enabled me to work through the sessions at my pace - I learn things best when I write them down but I cannot do this at speed! The recordings enabled me to pause, reflect, take notes as I went and I believe I have likely been able to understand and process way more as a result.

And the additional resources! There is so much there for me to go away and 'monotrope' with 🙂 Thank you!"

"I wanted to express my gratitude to the whole team for putting together such an instructive, comprehensive, and grounded overview of autism. I worked as an ABA therapist in the US for a year immediately after graduating university, and that experience had a profound (largely negative) impact on how I view autism intervention (i.e., the need for it) and my trust in the research and narratives around autism. Since that experience, I’ve sought out alternative perspectives as a researcher myself and have been met with strong resistance. This course has been both validating and challenging. A main take away for me is that my educational process around autism will never end.  The work you’re doing with this course does have a real impact (even on researchers, who never listen or learn!), and I promise to be the louder voice when the problematic researchers start blabbing on and on."

"The course was brilliant, full of informative and informed content, so refreshing and liberating to hear from actually autistic people as a very newly late-diagnosed autistic adult myself and as a parent of an autistic child. A great mix of a wealth of information (saving me a load of my own research time!) and analysis and such a brilliant validation of autistic experience. Other training and support often comes from a neurotypical perspective which pathologises and can get in the way of real understanding of autistic people and lead to harmful decisions. The course was such a perfect introduction to being autistic and truly life-changing. It should be taken by all professionals working with autistic people. I can't thank you all enough for doing this."

Membership lasts for 12 months

Some of the most commonly asked questions. If you have anything else you would like to ask please email us at michelle<at>theautisticadvocate.com

We also have specific FAQS for the pay-monthly option (please scroll down)

We launched the option to pay monthly in November 2023 and thought it would be useful to keep these FAQs seperate. 

If you have anything else you would like to ask please email us at michelle<at>theautisticadvocate.com

Kieran Rose - The Autistic Advocate; advocating for the Autistic community since 2017 

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