PDA North America

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General Admission

<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0pt 0px;">A monthly discussion group meetup for men or male-identifying people parenting PDA individuals, hosted by PJ Starling, PDANA board member &amp; adult PDAer. All male caretakers of a PDA person are welcome. PJ works as an empathetic, non-judgmental group facilitator. He also co-leads a weekly men&#39;s group in Vancouver, where he helps to hold space for men to explore and understand their emotions and relationships.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0pt 0px;">Meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month via Zoom at 7PM Central.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0pt 0px;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0pt 0px;">About PJ:&nbsp;<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0pt 0px;">PJ &ldquo;Starling&rdquo; Letourneau is a passionate advocate for neurodivergent humans. He writes a weekly-ish newsletter where he unpacks his life experience, and attempts to articulate the deeper gifts imbued in those with the PDA profile. He has a graduate degree in computational physics, and has had a 20+ year career as a software developer. He now focuses on launching early stage tech startups who can leverage his multi-passionate skills in science and computing. PJ has formal training in technical post-mortem investigation, where he works with high-performing teams to uncover important learnings from unexpected system failures.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0pt 0px;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 0px;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 79, 14); width: 415.5px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.656; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0pt 0px;">Having only recently discovered his PDA nature in his early forties, PJ has since developed a special interest in healing the cumulative nervous system dysregulation at the core of the PDA profile. He follows closely the scientific research uncovering differences in the way the autistic body regulates itself and sends signals to the brain. PJ has developed his own cannabis microdosing protocol for nervous system health, and became a certified medicinal cannabis coach in 2023.

A monthly discussion group meetup for men or male-identifying people parenting PDA individuals, hosted by PJ Starling, PDANA board member &amp; adult PDAer. All male caretakers of a PDA person are welcome. PJ works as an empathetic, non-judgmental group facilitator. He also co-leads a weekly men's group in Vancouver, where he helps to hold space for men to explore and understand their emotions and relationships. Meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month via Zoom at 7PM Central. About PJ: PJ “Starling” Letourneau is a passionate advocate for neurodivergent humans. He writes a weekly-ish newsletter where he unpacks his life experience, and attempts to articulate the deeper gifts imbued in those with the PDA profile. He has a graduate degree in computational physics, and has had a 20+ year career as a software developer. He now focuses on launching early stage tech startups who can leverage his multi-passionate skills in science and computing. PJ has formal training in technical post-mortem investigation, where he works with high-performing teams to uncover important learnings from unexpected system failures. Having only recently discovered his PDA nature in his early forties, PJ has since developed a special interest in healing the cumulative nervous system dysregulation at the core of the PDA profile. He follows closely the scientific research uncovering differences in the way the autistic body regulates itself and sends signals to the brain. PJ has developed his own cannabis microdosing protocol for nervous system health, and became a certified medicinal cannabis coach in 2023.

PDA North America

PDA & Fatherhood November

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