8-Week Life Skills & Community Participation Program

 This 8-week Life Skills program supports NDIS participants to strengthen everyday living skills, communication, emotional regulation, and community participation. 

The program is practical and strengths-based, delivered in a calm, non-clinical setting using a trauma-informed and neuro-affirming approach.

Sessions are delivered by professionally qualified teachers and counsellors with experience in disability, mental health, adult education, and group facilitation.

This is a capacity-building program (not therapy) and is suitable for adults with psychosocial disability, autism, and mixed support needs.

 Duration: 8 weeks
 

• Session length: 90 minutes per week Plus Coffee, Tea and Biscuits
   
• Group size: Small supported groups
   
• Delivery: In-person facilitated sessions
   
• Places: Limited per intake

Calm, predictable, and respectful.
Participants can join in, observe, or step out when needed. 

Week 1 — Foundations, safety, choice, and group confidence
Week 2 — Communication skills and everyday conversation
Week 3 — Emotional awareness and self-regulation
Week 4 — Routines, planning, and organisation
Week 5 — Boundaries, decision-making, and self-advocacy
Week 6 — Community participation and social confidence
Week 7 — Problem-solving and confidence building
Week 8 — Reflection, progress review, and next steps 

 All activities are:

    Practical and real-world focused
   Choice-based and non-pressured
   Adjusted to individual capacity

 This time is a supported extension of the session, designed to help participants gently practise the skills they have just learned in a real-world setting. 

• Initially practise conversation and social skills with their support workers
   
• Gradually, and at their own pace, practise interacting with other participants
   
• Use the strategies from the session in a calm, low-pressure environment
   

There is no expectation to participate. Observing, listening, or taking a break is always okay.

Their role is to:

• Continue practising their own skills
   
• Offer peer support through modelling and encouragement
   
• Help create a welcoming, safe, and inclusive environment for current participants
   

This shared time supports confidence-building, community connection, and the practical application of life skills, while maintaining clear boundaries and a respectful, non-clinical setting.

 This time is facilitated, purposeful, and optional, with clear boundaries in place. It is designed to support confidence-building and skill generalisation, not unstructured socialising, and aligns with participant goals and NDIS Capacity Building supports.