Community Workshops
Why Bloom360 developed workshops for those who care for neurodivergent individuals

One of the best ways we can support and nurture our children is understanding how they uniquely experience and respond to the world!
Children make sense of the world through how their body and brain receive, organize, and respond to sensory input. Sometimes a child’s response to sensory stimuli can be over-reactive (really big) or under-reactive (shut down), leading to big emotions and big behaviors.
Bloom360’s multi-disciplinary team offers life changing workshops for parents, caregivers, educators, and professionals who work with neurodivergent children and adults. The workshops were created to help parents learn about how children process sensory information, how that impacts behavior and strategies to help their child.
In this engaging workshop you will:
- Learn that behavior is communication.
- Understand how sensory processing leads to a deeper connection with your child.
- Gain strategies/tools that honor your child’s individual differences.
- Learn how to support your child and yourself during and after times of big emotions/behaviors.
Workshop Overview
This engaging and interactive workshop includes the information outlined below as well as time for questions and small group discussions. The workshop can be completed in one session or divided into two sessions for more opportunities to dig deeper and have more time for Q&A. We can customize the structure depending on your goals and needs. The workshops are led by members of our multi-disciplinary team including our occupational therapist and social worker/educator.
Part 1 – Sensory Processing
Participants learn more about the way the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory input from the eight sensory systems to behave in a meaningful and consistent manner. This includes:
- Sensory processing problems that occur when the brain has trouble receiving and responding to information that comes through the senses such as hearing, touch, or taste.
- How sensory processing problems can cause the individual to be over or under responsive to things in their environment. This can be painful or overwhelming.
- An opportunity to better understand the difficulty their child may have processing sensory information, as well as how those difficulties can affect a child’s behavior.
Part 2 – Big Emotions
Participants learn how best to respond during times of Big Emotion to deescalate the situation and validate their child’s feelings. Bloom360 has developed a tool called BRAVE to help adults stay present in moments of big emotions with confidence. This is important, because if understanding big emotions is complex for adults, it is even more challenging for children.
- Participants will learn how to help their child navigate big emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise—each of which has an enormous influence on their lives, behavior, and overall well-being.
- Parents will learn that behavior is communication, how to respond with intention and how to guide their children to express, understand, and manage big emotions in a healthy manner.
Part 3 – Group Discussion
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants are invited to join in a group discussion. We have found participants gain a lot from the open and honest group discussion as there are few, if any, opportunities like this available. The group discussion includes:
- An opportunity to ask questions of our multi-disciplinary team.
- A chance to exchange information with other participants.
- A safe place to build community with other participants who are going through similar life events.
Host a Workshop for your Organization
Bloom360 actively partners with other organizations, fundraises and applies for grants to offset the costs of hosting community workshops throughout southeastern Wisconsin.
If your organization (parent group, community organization, school staff, church group, book club, etc.) is interested in more information about Bloom360’s available workshops, please reach out.
Please also reach out if you are an individual who would like to know when there will be a workshop in your area.
Contact us via email: info@bloom360.org or phone: 414-935-6360.