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About
Us
Sensiscapes (or sensory-sensitive scapes) are spaces that are adaptive and carefully curated to be supportive to autistic people and others who live with sensory-processing challenges.
Sensiscapes are never designed to be a 'one-size-fits-all' approach and at the heart of the concept lies not just with the physical environment, but the more crucially, the person or people holding the space.
Sensiscapes maximise the potential of people who struggle to process stimuli in everyday spaces including the classroom.​
Sensiscapes Founder, Paula Vintiner, has worked as a Specialist Teacher in the education sector for over 20 years, amounting a wealth of training and experience in the UK, Auckland and Hawke's Bay. She has developed holistic programmes for teachers, support workers, and those in the health, social care and recreational services, helping professionals to curate skills and qualities that underpin effective support for autistic tamariki and adults, those with profound learning disabilities and the wider neurodivergent community.
With a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, a Post-Grad in Early Years and Primary Education, a certificate in Professional Coaching and as a qualified Youth Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher, Paula has expanded her mahi beyond the classroom, with a focus on addressing setting-specific challenges and creating inclusive spaces to celebrate neurodiversity and enhance wellbeing.
Services
Our services include advisory and in-house training for groups of professionals in schools, extending to community organisations and the workplace.
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Support is tailored to meet the needs and resource-capacity of each organisation.​
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Create a Sensiscape
This package comprises three elements: initial consultation, an in-house renovation workshop and follow-up support.
Elevate Workshops
Each of our Elevate Workshops focuses on one aspect of creating a Sensiscape: Relationships, Wellbeing and Engagement. These are designed to be accessed as a package, each with practical elements tailored to your target students.
PLD
From TODs to ongoing PLD, we offer schools and organisations advisory, information-based workshops catered specifically to the needs of identified students.
Our Commitment
We stand as allies for the neurodivergent community in education.
Our focus, PEOPLE + PLACE, centres on adaptivity: our ability to respond to needs and how we transform the environment to be conducive to learning.
Sensiscapes specialises in taking a holistic approach to enhancing wellbeing.
We believe wellbeing is the route to engagement in the classroom and is the primary tool to promote readiness to learn for neurodivergent tamariki in all learning environments.
Julie, Hastings
Paula presents as a calm and serene presence when facilitating her sessions with Jaime. She is very flexible in her thinking and approach and she has a great deal of knowledge about autism and neurodiversity from her many years of teaching.
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Her sense of humour, creativity and beautiful empathy allows Jaime to feel safe, calm and relaxed, as well as challenging her to do more.
Charlie
Paula is open and accepting so that I can be comfortable to express myself in ways that work for me. I like that she is playful and she is respectful, which is important to me.
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She adapts routines and customises the space to suit my needs on any given day, like picking up on if the room needs to be darker. She knows that playing familiar music is a useful anchor to help bring me into the space.