Building Your Support Team: Untangling: The Workshop Series

A practical online series for autistic, neurodivergent and chronically ill people navigating support systems and services.

Building Your Support Team

Logistics, fit, and setting yourself up for success.

Funding isn't helpful unless you can access the right supports through it. It can be daughnting seeing a dollar figure on paper and being unsure how to go about actually accessing services.

For many autistic, neurodivergent, and chronically ill participants there can be factors impacting this process:

• decision fatigue when choosing providers
• the (justified) fear of getting the 'wrong' worker
• past negative experiences with services
• energy limits that make trial-and-error particularly impactful

This session is about building a support team that works with you, not against you.

In this workshop, we’ll explore:

• communicating your needs, preferences, and boundaries
• tools to reduce cognitive load
• practical ways to find and assess potential support workers
• checking compatibility (communication style, sensory awareness, reliability)
• red flags and what to do when something isn’t working
• building a support network that is sustainable over time

Who this is for
Autistic, neurodivergent, and chronically ill participants who are building, reshaping, or reassessing their support team.

Format

• Online via Google Meet
• 90 minutes (75 minutes content + 15 minutes Q&A / discussion)
• Participate in any way that you'd prefer - there is no expectation for you to have your camera on or to interact in any way

This workshop will also be recorded and sent out with slides and resources after the event. Only Cassie and the slides will be recorded, no attendees will be visible.

About the facilitator
Untangling is facilitated by Cassie, a social worker and the founder of Nearish Support. Her work is grounded in lived experience and centres the often unseen labour of navigating support systems, with a focus on accessibility, sustainability, and care.

Untangling: The Workshop Series

Untangling is a new workshop series focused on the lived experience of navigating support: the thinking, planning, decision-making, communication, and emotional labour that sits underneath formal systems and services.

Designed for autistic, neurodivergent, and chronically ill people, the series offers practical, affirming support to help reduce overwhelm and build supports that genuinely fit real life.

• 25 March 2026: Where Do I Even Begin?
• 8 April 2026: Building Your Support Team
• 22 April 2026: The People Part
• 6 May 2026: So. Much. Change.
• 20 May 2026: The Hidden Work of Being a Participant
• 3 June 2026: When You Know the System from Both Sides

Payment Options

• Standard ticket
• Reduced fee
• NDIS friendly invoicing (standard ticket rate)

This workshop may or may not be a support that can be accessed through your NDIS Plan depending on your specific situation and plan. At the checkout select 'Payment through NDIS Plan' and we will confirm invoicing details with you before sending an invoice to you or your plan manager after the event.

Line item options include:

• Core - 01_134_0117_8_1 - Capacity Building and Training in Self Management and Plan Management
• Improved Daily Living - 15_037_0117_1_3 - Skill Development And Training
• Improved Social and Community Participation - 09_009_0117_6_3 - Skills Development and Training