From Mask to Map
From Mask to Map Group Coaching Cohort Sept ‘26
The Cartography of Transformation
An eight-week integrative group journey for people ready to understand themselves beneath years of masking, survival and lifelong adaptation.
Tuesdays, 15 September – 3 November 2026
6:30–8:00pm, UK/Isle of Man time
Live online | Maximum of ten participants
Founding-cohort investment: £595
Optional Private Inner World Mapping Session: £225
Limited availability
Perhaps the old map no longer fits
Maybe your child’s diagnosis has cast your own life in a completely different light.
Maybe you have recently discovered—or begun to suspect—that you may be autistic, ADHD, AuDHD or otherwise neurodivergent.
Perhaps years of pushing through have led to burnout, chronic stress, pain, sleep difficulties, hormonal changes, addiction or a nervous system that feels as though it has spent a lifetime braced for impact.
You may identify as highly sensitive, live with the effects of PTSD or trauma, or simply feel that the roles, expectations and ways of coping that carried you this far can no longer guide the life you are ready to create.
A new understanding can bring profound relief. Experiences that once seemed disconnected may begin to form a recognisable pattern.
The masking.
The perfectionism.
The people-pleasing.
The sensitivity.
The exhaustion.
The constant monitoring of yourself and the world around you.
Alongside that recognition, there may also be grief.
Grief for the support you deserved.
Grief for the needs you learned to override.
Grief for choices made without the information you have now.
Grief for the person you believed you had to become in order to belong.
And beneath it all, a deeper question may be beginning to emerge:
Who am I beneath the adaptations - and how do I create a life that genuinely fits?
From Mask to Map offers a carefully held space to explore that question. Together, we will begin understanding the terrain you have travelled, recognising the intelligence within the ways you adapted, and creating a more compassionate map for the life unfolding ahead.
What is From Mask to Map?
Story
The narratives you inherited, the roles you learned to perform and the explanations you formed about who you were.
State
The nervous-system patterns, sensory needs, protective responses and embodied experiences influencing how you meet the world.
Strategy
The values, boundaries, relationships, routines and choices that can support a more sustainable way of living.
Together, we will explore the old map with compassion: recognising how masking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, hypervigilance and other coping strategies may once have offered safety, connection or belonging.
From there, we begin drawing something new.
A map shaped around your actual nervous system.
Your real capacity.
Your needs and values.
Your inner resources.
Your evolving sense of meaning and purpose.
Each live session combines teaching, guided reflection, shared exploration and group hypnosis. The hypnosis journeys are intentionally left unrevealed beforehand, allowing your experience to unfold without expectation or conscious rehearsal.
Two quieter integration weeks create space for the nervous system and subconscious mind to absorb what is emerging. You will also receive guided recordings, reflective exercises and practical mapping tools to support the journey between sessions.
You will never be expected to reveal personal experiences or inner-world material to the group. You are invited to participate in a way that honours your boundaries, capacity and sense of safety.
This is not about creating another version of yourself to perform.
It is an invitation to become curious about the territory, listen more closely to your inner world and begin building a life in which more of you is able to belong.
The map is not the territory. It is a living guide — one that can expand and evolve as you do.
From Mask to Map is an eight-week integrative group journey for people ready to understand the patterns that shaped them, reconnect with the self beneath years of adaptation and begin creating a life that feels more authentic, regulated and meaningful.
This is more than a course about neurodivergence, and it is more than conventional group coaching.
It brings together neurodivergent-affirming education, nervous-system understanding, hypnotherapy, narrative work, symbolism, parts work, Transactional Analysis Drivers, Jungian ideas, values exploration and meaning-making.
Across the eight weeks, we will move through three interconnected layers:
The 8-Week Journey
Week 1 — You Are Here
Late discovery and the map that no longer fits
Late discovery—or a profound new understanding of yourself—can rearrange the meaning of an entire life.
We begin by exploring the relief, grief, recognition and uncertainty that may arise when old explanations begin to fall away. You will start viewing your history through a more compassionate lens, noticing what now makes sense and placing a marker at your present location.
Together, we explore identity, self-recognition, the grief of what was missed and the first beginnings of your personal life cartography.
Week 2 — Reading the Body’s Terrain
Nervous-system regulation, the inner mammal and the cost of fragmentation
Before we redraw the map, we need to understand the body travelling through the territory.
This session explores sensory, emotional, cognitive and social load; hypervigilance, shutdown and burnout; and the energy required to continually mask, monitor and adapt.
We begin creating a personal nervous-system and capacity map while exploring regulation, congruence, self-trust and the movement from controlling every step towards developing a more responsive relationship with life.
Week 3 — The Instructions Beneath the Mask
Drivers, roles, family scripts and the identities we learned to perform
Many of the instructions shaping our lives were learned through belonging, reward, culture, family and survival.
We explore the five Transactional Analysis Drivers—Be Perfect, Please Others, Be Strong, Try Hard and Hurry Up—and the particular ways they may interact with neurodivergence, trauma and masking.
You will begin identifying the roles you learned to perform, the strengths carried within them and the cost of continuing to obey an old instruction everywhere.
Week 4 — Pause, Notice and Integrate
The first integration week
There is no live meeting this week.
Instead, you will receive an integration audio, guided reflection, nervous-system observation practices and time to revisit the previous recordings.
This quieter week allows insight to settle and creates space to notice dreams, resistance, symbols, changes in awareness and the questions beginning to emerge.
A central reflection will be:
What is this showing me about the terrain?
This is also the main period in which the optional Private Inner World Mapping Sessions will begin.
Week 5 — The Stories We Live Inside
Narrative, metaphor and the power of a different question
Human beings organise experience through story.
We explore the narratives inherited from family, culture and past experience, along with the stories created to explain who you were and what you believed was possible.
You will begin identifying an Old Story and an evolving New Story, while exploring symbolism, metaphor, attention, curiosity and the ways a different question can open an entirely different relationship with the moment.
Week 6 — The Inner Council
Parts, shadow, archetypes and the movement towards wholeness
The inner world is an ecosystem rather than a collection of problems.
This week explores protective parts, hidden needs, younger selves, symbolic figures, shadow material and archetypal resources.
We look at the purpose beneath inner conflict, the movement towards individuation and the possibility of becoming more fully one person across different environments—reducing the strain of constantly dividing, monitoring and reshaping yourself.
No participant will be expected to disclose private inner-world material to the group.
Week 7 — Values, Development and the Inner Compass
The second integration week
There is no live group meeting this week.
You will receive a recorded teaching and guided exercises exploring values, Spiral Dynamics, meaning, belonging and purpose.
You will begin distinguishing inherited values from lived values, noticing where different values may be competing and creating the first draft of your Inner Compass.
The week also includes a practical review of work, relationships, health, rest, sensory needs and environment.
Week 8 — Drawing the New Map
Meaning, purpose and building a life that fits
The final live session brings the inner and outer maps together.
We move from insight towards compassionate life architecture: values-led choices, meaningful boundaries, sustainable structure, supportive environments and a clearer understanding of what deserves your energy and attention.
You will complete a personal From Mask to Map plan, bringing together:
what you now understand
what your nervous system needs
the Drivers and stories you recognise
the values guiding you forward
the inner resources available to you
the structures that support greater congruence
the next meaningful steps on your path
The map remains alive. It can continue expanding as you do.
This journey is designed to help you understand the map you inherited, honour the intelligence within your adaptations and begin creating a more conscious map for the life ahead.
Across eight weeks, we will move from recognition and nervous-system understanding towards story, identity, inner coherence, values and meaningful life design.
Each live session combines teaching, guided reflection, shared exploration and group hypnosis. Two quieter integration weeks create space for the nervous system and subconscious mind to absorb what is emerging.
The journey follows a deliberate progression. We begin by understanding the terrain you have travelled before asking what you would like to build next.
What Your Founding-Cohort Experience Includes
Six live 90-minute group sessions
Each live session combines teaching, guided reflection, carefully facilitated group exploration and time to connect the week’s ideas with your own life.
Group hypnosis during every live meeting
Each live session concludes with a guided group hypnosis created to support the subconscious integration of that week’s themes.
The precise journeys are intentionally left unrevealed, allowing each experience to unfold without expectation or conscious rehearsal.
Two spacious integration weeks
Weeks 4 and 7 contain no live meeting.
Instead, you will receive recorded teaching, guided audio practices and reflective exercises, alongside time to revisit previous material and notice what is continuing to unfold.
These weeks are an intentional part of the programme, allowing the nervous system and subconscious mind time to absorb the work.
A participant workbook
Your workbook will accompany you throughout the journey, providing space to record insights, identify patterns and gradually create your own personal map.
The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire
You will complete a neurodivergent-considered exploration of the five Transactional Analysis Drivers:
Be Perfect
Please Others
Be Strong
Try Hard
Hurry Up
This will help you recognise the internal instructions that may have shaped your masking, relationships, choices and sense of responsibility.
Guided reflection and mapping practices
Across the programme, you will create a series of personal maps exploring areas such as:
your nervous-system capacity
masking and adaptive roles
inherited and evolving stories
needs and boundaries
values and meaning
inner resources
the structures that support a more sustainable life
Original hypnosis and nervous-system recordings
You will receive a collection of guided recordings created to support reflection, regulation and integration between sessions.
These will allow you to revisit key experiences in your own time and at your own pace.
Teaching and hypnosis replays
The teaching and group-hypnosis portions of each live meeting will be available to revisit.
Personal discussion and participant sharing will not be included in the recordings, helping to preserve the privacy and safety of the group.
Your personal From Mask to Map plan
By the end of the programme, you will have created a living personal map bringing together:
what you now understand about yourself
what your nervous system needs
the Drivers and stories you recognise
the values you want to orient towards
the inner resources available to you
the environments and structures that support you
the next meaningful steps on your path
A carefully held group of no more than ten people
The founding cohort will be intentionally small.
This allows enough diversity for meaningful shared recognition, while preserving the intimacy, steadiness and space required for deeper reflection.
Everything needed to experience the full journey is included within the core programme. The private Inner World Mapping Session offered in the next section is an optional opportunity for additional individual exploration.
From Mask to Map has been designed as a complete journey, with live teaching, subconscious integration, reflective work and practical tools supporting one another across the eight weeks.
Optional Private Inner World Mapping Session
A more personal journey into your inner landscape
Alongside the group programme, a limited number of participants may choose to add a private 45-minute Inner World Mapping Session with Ashley.
This individual session creates space for a more personally responsive exploration than can be offered within a group setting.
Before the appointment, you will complete a confidential reflection form. Ashley will review your responses in advance, allowing the session to be shaped around the themes, patterns and questions most relevant to your present journey.
The experience may support you to:
establish or deepen a relationship with your inner world
reconnect with an inner guide or symbolic resource
explore a protective pattern or part asking for attention
receive imagery, insight or an anchor to carry into the remaining weeks
bring greater personal depth to the later story, parts, archetype and meaning work
The precise direction of the hypnosis is intentionally left open, allowing your own inner world to guide what unfolds.
Participants who have worked with Ashley previously may use the session to revisit familiar inner resources, explore what has changed or deepen an existing relationship with a guide or part.
The core From Mask to Map programme is a complete experience in itself. This optional session offers an additional layer of private, bespoke exploration for those who feel drawn to it.
Your session includes
a confidential preparatory reflection
Ashley’s individual review and preparation
a private 45-minute hypnosis session
a bespoke exploration shaped around your inner landscape
Optional investment
£225
A limited number of sessions will be available during the programme, primarily around the first integration period.
Core programme plus private session: £820 when the programme is paid in full.
Dates, Investment and Payment Options
Founding cohort dates
From Mask to Map runs across eight weeks:
Tuesdays, 15 September – 3 November 2026
6:30–8:00pm UK/Isle of Man time
Live online via Zoom
Your eight-week schedule
15 September — Live Session 1
22 September — Live Session 2
29 September — Live Session 3
6 October — Integration Week
13 October — Live Session 4
20 October — Live Session 5
27 October — Integration Week
3 November — Live Session 6 and closing
There is no live meeting during the two integration weeks. Participants will instead receive guided material and reflective practices to explore in their own time.
The UK clocks change on 25 October. Participants joining from outside the UK should check how this may affect the final two weeks in their local time zone.
Founding-cohort investment
Pay in full
£595
Payment plan
Two payments of £310
The first payment secures your place. The second payment date will be confirmed when your place is accepted.
The payment plan totals £620.
Optional Private Inner World Mapping Session
A limited number of participants may also choose to add a private Inner World Mapping Session during the programme.
Additional investment: £225
Total investment with the private session
£820 when the core programme is paid in full
£845 when using the two-payment plan
The optional private session is paid separately when your appointment is booked.
A carefully held founding cohort
Places are limited to ten participants.
The founding-cohort investment reflects that this is the first live delivery of From Mask to Map. Participants will receive the complete programme experience while also helping shape how future cohorts develop.
Is This Journey Right for You
This journey may be right for you if…
you are late-diagnosed, self-identifying or questioning whether you may be autistic, ADHD or AuDHD
your child’s diagnosis has caused you to look at your own life differently
you recognise yourself in masking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, hypervigilance or chronic adaptation
you identify as highly sensitive or live with the effects of trauma, PTSD, burnout, chronic stress or chronic illness
you are questioning who you are beneath the roles you learned to perform
you want to understand your nervous system with greater compassion
you are drawn to story, symbolism, parts work, hypnosis and meaning-making
you are ready to reflect gently and take responsibility for your own participation
you are seeking a more authentic, sustainable and meaningful relationship with your life
A formal diagnosis is not required.
What matters is that the themes of adaptation, identity, nervous-system overwhelm and creating a life that fits resonate with your experience.
This programme may not be the right support if…
From Mask to Map is an educational and integrative group experience rather than crisis support or a replacement for medical or psychiatric care.
It may not be appropriate if you are currently experiencing an acute mental-health crisis, require frequent individual support or are seeking intensive trauma processing within the group.
You are welcome to contact Ashley if you are uncertain whether the programme is the right level of support for you.
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About Ashley
Your guide for the journey
I’m Ashley Dupuy, a clinical hypnotherapist, coach, breathwork practitioner, meditation teacher and fellow late-discovered neurodivergent adult.
My work brings together nervous-system regulation, hypnotherapy, parts work, narrative exploration, somatic awareness, neuroscience, Buddhist psychology and Jungian ideas.
I am the in-house therapist for The Neurodivergent Experience, creator and presenter of Mindful Mondays, host of Tenacious Be and a teacher on Insight Timer.
Yet the heart of this programme comes from the meeting point between professional training and lived experience.
I understand what it is to look back at a life through a new lens, to recognise the intelligence within old adaptations and to begin asking who you may be beneath years of masking, coping and survival.
My role is not to hand you a predetermined map.
It is to walk beside you as you understand the terrain, listen to your inner world and begin creating a map that belongs more fully to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a formal diagnosis?
No. The programme welcomes formally diagnosed, self-identifying and questioning neurodivergent adults, alongside highly sensitive people and those whose experiences of trauma, burnout and lifelong adaptation strongly resonate.
Is this only for women?
No. People of all genders are warmly welcome. Although many late-discovered neurodivergent people finding my work have been women, the themes explored within From Mask to Map are not gender-specific.
Do I have to speak or share personal experiences?
No. You will be invited to reflect and participate, while always retaining choice around what you share. Private inner-world material never needs to be disclosed to the group.
Will the sessions be recorded?
The teaching and group-hypnosis portions will be recorded and made available to participants. Personal discussion and participant sharing will not be included, helping to preserve confidentiality.
What happens during the integration weeks?
There is no live meeting. You will receive guided material, recordings and reflection practices, along with space to revisit earlier work and allow insight to settle.
What if I miss a live session?
You can access the teaching and hypnosis replay. Because personal group discussion is not recorded, attending live whenever possible will offer the fullest experience.
Do I have to add the private Inner World Mapping Session?
No. The £595 programme is complete in itself. The £225 private session is an optional opportunity for more individually responsive inner-world work.
Is this therapy?
The programme draws upon therapeutic and integrative approaches, but it is a group educational and personal-development experience. It does not replace individual psychotherapy, medical care or crisis support.
How does the payment plan work?
You may pay £595 in full or choose two payments of £310. The first payment secures your place, and the second payment date will be confirmed when you enrol.
Get in Touch About the Founding Cohort
The founding cohort is limited to ten participants so that the group can remain spacious, personal and carefully held.
To express your interest, simply email me directly or use the contact form below.
You do not need to prepare a formal application or have everything worked out before getting in touch. Just tell me a little about what has drawn you to From Mask to Map, and whether you are interested in:
the core eight-week programme
the optional Private Inner World Mapping Session
paying in full or using the two-payment option
I will reply personally, answer any questions you may have and explain the next steps.
Getting in touch does not commit you to joining or to making payment.
The founding cohort begins Tuesday 15 September 2026.
Get in touch via the contact form below.