💕Together in Play: A Neurodivergent Family Experience
​This therapeutic, nature‑based, family-centered play experience welcomes families across the neurodiverse spectrum. It offers a nurturing space where parents, caregivers, and children can connect, play, and grow together. Through shared experiences, families strengthen communication, deepen emotional attunement, and honors their unique values and rhythms.
Purpose of the Program
When you’re raising a neurodivergent child, connection can feel out of reach—and the weight of doing it alone is real. Studies show parents experience high stress, exhaustion, and limited support, especially when navigating behavioral challenges, sleep struggles, and emotional overwhelm. 1
But here’s the truth no one tells you enough: You don’t have to stay in survival mode. Your family can move toward ease, attunement, and joy.
Together in Play was created for that journey. A bilingual, nature‑based, therapeutic space where you learn how to co‑regulate, reconnect, and support your child’s sensory and emotional world—without pressure, without judgment, and without doing it alone.
The workshop supports the parent–child bond by fostering confidence, presence, and each family’s natural strengths.
Program Goals
• Explore optimal ways of interaction between caregivers and children
• Improve eye contact in a natural, pressure‑free way
• Enhance the quality of interactive play
• Strengthen communication skills
• Support sensory tolerance
• Deepen and strengthen the family bond
Oriented To
Families with children ages 3 to 12 across the neurodivergent spectrum, regardless of support needs.
Program Structure
• Semi‑Guided Play: Gentle facilitation to enhance social, emotional, and communicative exchanges
• Semi‑Oriented Exploration: Sensory and relational experiences introduced respectfully and intentionally
• Therapeutic Intention Without Therapy: Spontaneity is preserved while offering healing, restorative activities
• Themed Sessions: Each week focuses on a specific sensory, social, or communicative experience
Why This Space Matters
Many families have been immersed in highly structured or corrective models of interaction, where connection becomes secondary to tasks. This workshop restores joyful, intuitive, loving interaction. It provides a safe environment for families who may struggle in traditional group settings due to sensory, social, or behavioral expectations.
The space honors:
• Each child’s uniqueness
• Each child’s sociability level
• Each family’s comfort
• The natural pace of connection
Families are supported in making organic, meaningful changes without pressure or rigid expectations.
Therapeutic Activities vs. Therapy
Activities are intentionally selected for their restorative qualities, but the workshop is not therapy. Therapeutic activities support well‑being without focusing on deficits. The goal is to help families experience their child’s strengths—an inherently healing shift.
What you will take home from this program:
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1. Connection & Confidence
“I’m taking with me a deeper connection with my child and the confidence to follow their lead with more joy and less pressure.”
2. New Ways of Seeing My Child
“I’m leaving with a new understanding of my child’s strengths and a softer, more compassionate way of relating to them.”
3. Practical Tools
“I’m taking simple, meaningful strategies I can use at home to support communication, play, and emotional regulation.”
4. A Sense of Community
“I’m taking with me the comfort of knowing I’m not alone and that other families share similar experiences.”
5. Reconnection With My Own Intuition
“I’m leaving with a renewed trust in my intuition as a parent and a clearer sense of how to connect with my child in everyday moments.”
6. Joy in Play
“I’m taking with me the reminder that play doesn’t have to be perfect or structured—it just has to be shared.”
7. Healing
“I’m leaving with a more peaceful heart and a more hopeful view of our journey as a family.”
Our focus is not only in your child, but to improve all you as a family system.
Location:
The Childhood Nature Project
Classroom
Enchanted Forest Elaine Gordon Park
1735 NE 135th st, North Miami, 33181
Maria Cecilia
Mauricio
I am Maria Cecilia, an Argentinian-American mother of two teenagers, founder of SmarTherapy LLC and MCC Institute in Miami, two Therapy Centers dedicated to Communication Disorders. I am author of ¨FonoaudiologÃa sistémica¨and VocologÃa Ampliada¨ and Translator of the Spanish Protocols of the World most renown LSVT Method. I hold a master's degree in Linguistic Science and another Master's Degree in Communication Disorders, validated and Licensed both in Argentina and USA. I also hold multiple certifications and post-graduate diplomas that allowed me to explore and deepen in the most updated conventional as well as non-conventional scientific research in Health and Communication, such as Anthroposophical Medicine, Hamerian Medicine, Bach Flowers remedies, Bio-Emotional Decodification, Animal-Assisted Therapy, Life and Spiritual Coaching. I also became certified as a Singing Instructor, Professional Actress, Yoga Instructor on my path of integrating body, mind and consciousness into my practices. I have dedicated more than 20 years to research, educate, train, coach, facilitate, rehabilitate and prevent on Communication matters, enjoying every step on the way.
Patricia
Leon
Hi, I’m Patricia — Peruvian, mama of a teenager, and founder of Miami Nature Playschool. My journey into nature-based education began at exactly 19:19 on July 16, 2009, after 16 hours of labor, no contractions, three epidurals, and one unforgettable emergency cesarean. The moment I received my daughter in my arms I promised she would have the childhood I couldn't: plenty of play, connection, and wild wonder. I hold an MBA and a degree in Education with emphasis in adults, an specialization in Leadership, Marketing, and Human Resources. I’m a Forest School Teacher certified by the Forest School Association UK but also a Forest Kindergarten Mentor through Cedarson Nature School and a Certified Nature-Based Educator with ANBE in the US. I’m also a Synergetic Play Therapy Practitioner and a Certified Montessori Instructor for newborns to six-year-olds — because I believe even the tiniest humans deserve joy and dignity. At this moment I am pursuing an extension program at Harvard University called: Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education and I expect to finish it this upcoming May, 2026.