Awareness, Courage & Love™ is a framework developed by ACL Global, growing out of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy — a relationally-focused, evidence-based clinical model. Think of ACL™ as the everyday, accessible version of those same principles: the tools of relational healing translated into real life, outside the therapy room. This program applies that framework specifically to the parent-child relationship, helping families build the same qualities of awareness, courage, and love that support lasting change in therapeutic settings — but in the ordinary moments of family life.

Yes. We designed this training to be accessible to families with varying needs and many of our participants in the research setting had PDAers.

Some strategies we present are not ideal for PDAers—so we try to highlight this, and provide alternatives.

Absolutely! And you won't be alone. Neurodivergent parents bring something irreplaceable to this work: the lived experience of navigating a world not built for your nervous system, while raising a child whose nervous system deserves the same understanding. This space is built to honor that, not work around it.

We actually designed our program to model neuroaffirming spaces, which you will find in our group norms, our information delivery, and general valuing of your strengths and challenges, without shame.

You can still do this work and we expect your child will still benefit from it. Neurodivergent children navigate different environments with different people all the time — that's simply part of their reality, and this program will help you show up more fully within yours.

That said, we want to be honest with you: when one person in a system begins to change, the rest of the system responds, and we can't always predict how. Some relationships have the flexibility to hold that tension and grow through it. Others find it more challenging. This is worth considering with before you begin.

What we can tell you is that even if you never use a single strategy directly with your child — even if the work stays entirely internal, changing only how you see and respond to yourself — that shift alone can ripple outward in important ways. You are part of your child's system too. When you change, something changes for them as well.

Yes, absolutely. This program requires a genuine commitment to supporting your own emotional regulation and your child's, and an openness to trying new ways of showing up. If you're bringing both of those things, you belong here. The rest has room to evolve.

Yes. ACL Global is recording our Founding Parent group sessions, including the learning, mindfulness, and discussion. Individual breakout sessions are never recorded. If ever you wanted to share something highly private that you did not want recorded, we can pause the recording briefly. You can read ACL Global’s consent form to make sure the parameters work for you.

We know life happens (and spring break!). If you cannot come, you can view the recording afterward. We will still ask you to practice that week and the week after, so you can still get the benefit of the program.

ACL Global™ handles registration, the online platform, and our classroom. If you encounter any problems with that, let them know! You can contact them at admin@aclglobal.org.