“Connie, what happened to website this week? Things look different. Where do I go to enrol and pay?”

We’re evolving Social Stencil to better support those delivering the program. The One-Day workshops are still happening, but solo self-guided learning is getting a make over! If your keen on the self-guided training option (The Social Stencil Portal), we’re now including introductory webinars to support you with initial underpinning theory and two one-to-one training sessions virtually (at the beginning and mid way through your self-guided training).

If you have an invoice or written package from me with the old program training details, I’ll of course honour that package and add the support that are new at no cost to you. Otherwise, check back later today for the new training packages that will provide all of our facilitators with a more comprehensive and supportive training experience.

Change is coming, but change is good!

Delivered by Educators and Clinicians.

  • Whole class - Grade 3 to 6.

  • Small groups - Grade 3 to 8.

  • Individual - Ages 7+

  • Deliver the program 12 - 18 weeks.

  • Themes include listening styles, emotions, friendship concepts, understanding why conflict happens, and strategies to manage conflict independently.

Developed to support Clinicians and Mental Health Practitioners

  • Grade 3 to young adults.

  • Social Stencil 1:1 is a supplement to pair with the Original program to help explain when you might draw on Original Social Stencil concepts to support your individual therapy and theraputic goals.

For Everyone - Parents, Clinicians, and Educators and it’s all free!

  • Explore to learn more about;

    • neurodiversity affirming practice.

    • Strategies for school and home.

  • All material can be downloaded as PDF and shared broadly!

  • These resources first land on the Social Stencil instagram account so head there to see it all first!

Delivered by Educators and Clinicians.

  • Reception to Grade 2.

  • Deliver whole-class, small groups or individually.

  • Pick and choose which lessons to delivery and when.

  • Our junior program activities bring focus to feelings of belonging, interoception, emotions, appreciating difference and mistakes matter!

Founder and Program Author, Dr Connie Buckingham (PhD), is the psychologist behind Social Stencil.

Connie first developed Social Stencil in 2008 for an all-girls school, in an effort to reduce relational aggression—a form of bullying. Since then, Connie has undertaken PhD research to expand and evaluate the program, and in 2021, with the support of Australian advocates with lived experience, the program was further developed to become neurodiversity-affirming.

Connie’s lived experience and breadth of work as a psychologist, research supervisor, and sessional lecturer all help to inform the ongoing research and development of Social Stencil.

In 2025, she was awarded the University of Melbourne Arts Alumni Giving Award for her contribution to the neurodiversity-affirming movement.