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Other courses we're offering

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A Spirited Retreat

A gathering for paediatric OTs.

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Praxis, with Tracy

Tracy's praxis course this October.

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More to come

Where we'll share and endorse courses worth your time.

Books we love

The texts that thread through the series, with the thinkers behind them.

Sensory Integration and Learning Disorders

A. Jean Ayres (Western Psychological Services, 1972). The original blue book.

Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice

Anita C. Bundy, Shelly J. Lane and Elizabeth A. Murray (F.A. Davis; 2nd ed. 2002, 3rd ed. 2020). The current textbook.

Children Adapt: A Theory of Sensorimotor-Sensory Development

Elnora M. Gilfoyle, Ann P. Grady and Josephine C. Moore (Slack; 1981, 2nd ed. 1990). The spiralling continuum Tracy returns to.

Wired to Feel: Autism as a Condition of Sensory Surplus

Sarah Bergenfield and Martha Sweezy, foreword by Beth Ann Malow (New Harbinger, 2026). The sensory surplus reframe.

Authors we love

The people whose work threads through the series. Follow whichever name speaks to you.

A. Jean Ayres. Founded sensory integration, and gave us the just right challenge and the adaptive response.

Stephen Porges. Polyvagal theory, and neuroception, the body reading safety before we think it.

Deb Dana. Polyvagal theory made clinical, and the idea of a foothold in ventral.

Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder. DIR and Floortime, and affect as the glue of development.

Dan Siegel. Interpersonal neurobiology, the river of integration, and the “mwe” space.

Jaak Panksepp. Affective neuroscience, and PLAY as a primary drive rather than a reward.

Anita Bundy. Play, the Test of Playfulness, and the sensory integration textbook many of us learned from.

Shelly Lane. Sensory modulation and arousal, and co-editor of the sensory integration textbook.

Diane Parham. Play in occupational therapy, and the Sensory Processing Measure.

Patti Oetter and Eileen Richter. The MORE approach, and the developmental progression of space.

Mary Kawar. Vestibular and ocular function, and Astronaut Training.

Sheila Frick. Therapeutic Listening, and sound as a way into regulation.

Daniel Stern. The movement system, and how a sense of self is built moment by moment.

Lois Bly. Motor development, described with unusual precision.

Sally Rogers. The Early Start Denver Model.

Pat Wilbarger. The sensory diet, and the language we still use for it.

Bill Greenough. Experience-expectant and experience-dependent neuroplasticity.

Lisa Feldman Barrett. The predictive brain, and why prediction comes before reaction.

Ruth Lanius. Trauma, dissociation, and the sensory matrix.

Kim Barthel. Relationship and trauma-informed practice, and the Behavioural Detective.

Maria Montessori. Following the child, long before we called it that.

Jan Winhall. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model.

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Episode 33, Another look at praxis

Praxis, polyvagal and sensory integration

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Episode 32, Sensory modulation & neuroception

Shared language for families

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Episode 29, The art of co-regulation

When science meets therapy

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