Sensory Detective Workshop™
More than a workshop – this is a paradigm shift that empowers authentic autistic existence.
95%
experience
sensory differences
1 in 32
are autistic
2029
25k
🖼️ Reframe Autism
🧠 Rethink Performance
🧑🤝🧑 Reignite Connection
Nelle Frances' Sensory Detective® Workshop is a transformative, full-day professional development experience that moves you beyond theory and into lived insight. Through an immersive simulation, you'll experience Autism from the inside out – gaining a firsthand understanding of how sensory processing differences shape the emotional, cognitive, and performance responses of Autistic individuals.
This workshop disrupts the current understanding of autism and explores the unique neurology, perception, and cognitive styles of autistic people, with a focus on how sensory homeostasis (balance) is key to regulation, engagement, and achievement.
You'll learn practical, sensory-informed strategies to:
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Identify and decode sensory-elicited responses
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Support co-regulation and reduce anxiety
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Guide Autistic individuals toward self-regulation
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Shift from "behaviour management" to performance-aware support
Whether you're a teacher, allied health professional, support worker, family member, or Autistic yourself, the Sensory Detective® Workshop will equip you with a new lens – and the confidence to apply it daily. Walk away with a toolbox of strategies that complement your deeper understanding of Autism.
Training & Professional Development
Hosting a whole-team Sensory Detective Workshop is the most powerful delivery method, as all staff gain the same knowledge and understanding simultaneously.
Benefits include:
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Team unity – empowering staff to look for more equitable solutions for clients and students, rather than falling back on "behaviour management" techniques.
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Sustainable change – delivering professional development to your whole team establishes a unified framework and shared understanding of autism across the entire staff cohort.
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Staff cohesion – this unity fosters collaboration, strengthens confidence, and ensures consistent support for students and clients across the classroom, home, community environments, workplace, and all transitions.
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Improved confidence – schools and support organisations report that this training has empowered staff to "trust" their instincts and feel more confident in their day‑to‑day roles.
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Reduced reactive management – schools and workplaces report that whole‑staff training reduces reactive behaviour management, improves client and student engagement, and creates an inclusive staff culture where support is proactive and sustainable.
Ask for a quote for your whole-staff training. Pupil‑free days
Ongoing Education & Webinars
Nelle delivers engaging webinars and ongoing training for parents, carers, educators, support workers and allied health professionals.
At the centre of all of all webinars is Nelle's sensory philosophy.
The Sensory Detective® model conceptualises behaviour, engagement, learning and functional participation as emergent properties of a dynamic regulatory system, in which sensory processing and autonomic nervous system states interact continuously. This process—term SENSORY HOMEOSTASIS—is not static, but fluid and state-dependent, fluctuating moment-to-moment across exteroceptive (visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile) and proprioceptive–vestibular systems, as well as interoceptive processes. Interoception integrates internal physiological signals (e.g., temperature, hunger, thirst, visceral states), which interface with autonomic regulation to shape emotional experience, self-regulation capacity and behavioural output.
Go Zen
A neurobiological approach to anxiety for autistic and neurodivergent people
The GO ZEN® Anxiety Program supports autistic and neurodivergent individuals to reduce their worry. Participants learn to:-
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Recognize how anxiety impacts their body and mind.
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Transform physical symptoms of anxiety into calm.
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Identify “ThoughtHoles” - sneaky thoughts that distort reality.
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Use techniques, including the 5Cs of resilience and the FARR Method, to combat anxious thinking and behaviours.
Meltdown
Learn:
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The neurology of what is happening in a meltdown
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Recognise the sensory threats you may be unintentionally triggering
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Support your child in a way that builds safety, trust and long-term emotional regulation
If you believe your autistic child would do better if they could, this webinar is for you.
real strategies, real results, from someone who truly gets it.