now booking for 2025 and 2026
Are you ready to shift your lens in how you support, view, understand and work with neurodivergence?
Sonny is a highly engaging, relatable and informative Autistic and ADHD public speaker offering workshops, presentations, keynotes and talks to schools, businesses, organisations, mental health services and allied health services on a variety of neurodiversity related topics.
Do you have an established theme or topic in mind?
If you can’t find the topic you’re looking for, get in touch at the bottom of this page and Sonny will design the training or talk for your team’s specific needs.
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In this workshop, participants will learn about neurodivergence and common neurodivergent differences including sensory differences, executive functioning differences, attention differences, social and communication differences, voice hearing, plurality and altered states. Participants will also walk away with an understanding of neurodivergent terminology including spoon theory, stimming, spikey skillsets, special interests, masking, meltdowns and burnout.
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to create a neurodiversity inclusive workplace for neurodivergent people through reframing our language and practical approaches, strategies and tools to adapt environments, instructions, policies and processes.
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In this workshop, participants will learn about Neurodiversity Affirming Practice and how to support neurodivergent individuals in their clinical practice. Participants will walk away with an understanding of neurodiversity terminology, principles of Neurodiversity Affirming Practice, ableism within traditional therapies and how to put Neurodiversity Affirming Practice principles into practice.
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Deepen your understanding of neuronormativity and the relationship between neuronormativity, capitalism and the DSM. Explore how we can begin to challenge and disrupt neuronormative expectations, values, ideals and norms within classrooms, workplaces, therapy and our relationships with each other and ourselves.
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to create a neurodiversity inclusive classroom for neurodivergent students by understanding executive functioning, learning and sensory differences, supporting Autistic communication and play and understanding meltdowns, burnout, stimming and special interests.
Get in touch
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Get in touch via sonnyjanew@gmail.com
What are people saying?
“An absolute standout for me was the keynote speaker Sonny Wise. Such an insightful presentation.”
Disability Employment Australia Conference Attendee
Sonny’s workshop was well structured and very well received. The subject matter was presented in a way that everyone could understand and the content was really interesting and thought provoking. Everyone should do this training as we come to better understand neurodivergence.
Melbourne City Mission
“Your presentation was one of the most informative, refreshing and critical presentation I’ve ever experienced.”
Workshop Attendee
Sonny’s workshops provided an excellent introduction and overview for some of our People and Culture staff, people managers and members of our Disability Employee Resource Group. We would definitely consider running these sessions again in the future.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre