Micro-Course Overview

Productive Mindset:
For You and Your Child

This course focuses on the mindset you bring into your relationship—and how it shapes your child’s sense of confidence, safety, and self-belief.

Before strategies work, mindset matters.

In this micro-course, you’ll examine the beliefs, assumptions, and habits that show up when your neurodivergent child struggles—and how subtle shifts in perspective can transform tension into trust and control into collaboration.


Format: Short videos, guided reflection, real-life scenarios

Time: ~45–60 minutes total (self-paced) and another 30 minutes for the reflection guide


Outcome: More grounded responses, reduced power struggles, and a stronger foundation for growth

Note: Although sold as a single micro-course and guide here, it is also the second micro-course in our Foundation Series Bundle.

Parents with neurodivergent children.

Reflection & Action Guide

  • Why reflect?

    This 11-page guide helps parents gently surface the beliefs and assumptions shaping how they interpret their child’s behavior and their own role as a parent.

    Through thoughtfully designed prompts, it invites curiosity rather than judgment and supports parents in noticing where urgency, fear, or comparison may be influencing their thinking, and where greater flexibility and compassion are already present. The guide is meant to slow the moment, create insight, and open space for more intentional, relationship-centered choices.

  • What can you expect?

    Rather than telling parents what to think or do, the Reflection Guides act as a quiet thought-partner. They help bring beliefs, emotions, and assumptions into the open where they can be explored with curiosity and care.

    This reflective space often becomes the bridge between learning new ideas and actually showing up differently in your relationships.

Who is the micro-course for?

This course is designed for:
  • Parents and caregivers of neurodivergent children, teens, and young adults, especially those with a newly diagnosed child, teen, or young adult
  • Adults who notice themselves slipping into frustration, urgency, or control
  • Parents seeking to support independence without disengaging
  • Therapists, educators, and coaches working with families around mindset and communication

This course is especially helpful if you find yourself thinking:
  • “I know what to do—but it’s not working.”
  • “I’m trying to help, but my child experiences it as pressure.”
  • “I want to support independence without losing connection.”

Why does this
micro-course matter?

When neurodivergent kids struggle, adults often default to strategies: what to say, what to do, how to push forward. This is a natural response because we want to fix things quickly, efficiently, and feel competent.

But strategies are filtered through mindsets and this can shape how the strategy is delivered and received.

If the underlying mindset is urgency, fear, or control:
  • Support can feel like pressure
  • Guidance can feel like judgment
  • Help can feel like management rather than partnership

This course helps you pause, examine your assumptions, and intentionally reframe how you interpret struggle, progress, and motivation so your child experiences your support differently.

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What's the result?

By the end of this course, you will be better able to:

  • Respond to challenges without defaulting to frustration or blame
  • Replace assumptions of laziness or resistance with curiosity and understanding
  • Build trust and hope instead of urgency
  • Support your child’s ownership of growth rather than carrying it for them

Where does it fit?

If you are trying to take these courses as part of a series or set, this micro-course serves as a bridge—connecting deep understanding of lived experience (Seeing the World Through Their Eyes) with practical relational approaches (Executive Function Foundations).
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