This training explores what sits beneath the visible behaviours often associated with Autism. Using the iceberg metaphor, we move beyond surface level interpretations to understand the internal experiences, needs, and pressures that shape behaviour.

Through a lived-experience lens, participants will examine experiences that are frequently misunderstood or mislabelled including:

• meltdowns and shutdowns

• sensory overload and sensory distress

• rejection sensitivity

• demand avoidance

• burnout

• ARFID

Rather than asking “How do we stop the behaviour?”, this training asks:

• What is this behaviour communicating?

• What needs are unmet?

• What environments or expectations are contributing to distress

This session is ideal for educators, clinicians, workplaces, families, and community spaces seeking to better understand Autistic experiences in a way that is compassionate and grounded in lived experience.

This training offers a foundational understanding of neurodiversity through a lived experience lens. Designed for organisations, educators, clinicians and community spaces, the session builds a shared understanding of what neurodiversity is, where it comes from, and why it matters.

Participants will explore key neurodiversity concepts and terminology, including neurodiversity, neurodivergent, neurotypical, the neurodiversity movement, the neurodiversity paradigm, neuronormativity, and neuroqueer.

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

• understand core neurodiversity language and frameworks

• recognise the impact of neuronormative systems on access, inclusion, and wellbeing

• learn how the neurodiversity paradigm reframes differences

In this training, participants will develop an understanding of Neurodiversity Affirming Practice and how to meaningfully support neurodivergent individuals.

We’ll explore:

• core neurodiversity terminology and concepts

• key principles of Neurodiversity Affirming Practice

• how ableism and sanism shows up within traditional therapeutic models and interventions

• how to set up your therapy room

• the impact of pathologising and compliance-based approaches on neurodivergent clients

This training centres neurodivergent lived experience and provides practical guidance for clinicians seeking to move away from deficit-based models toward neurodiversity affirming practice.

In this training, participants will learn how to build neuroinclusive workplaces where neurodivergent people can thrive, not just cope.

We’ll explore how to move beyond awareness into action by:

• reframing deficit-based language and assumptions

• understanding common neurodivergent workplace barriers

• applying practical strategies to adapt environments, communication and expectations

Participants will gain tools and approaches to:

• adjust physical and sensory environments

• provide clearer, more accessible instructions

• redesign policies, processes, and performance expectations 

• support sustainable work practices that reduce burnout and exclusion

This workshop is grounded in neurodiversity affirming principles and lived experience, offering concrete, realistic changes that benefit neurodivergent employees and improve workplaces for everyone.

It is recommended to pair this training with Understanding Neurodivergence.

This advanced workshop offers an in-depth exploration of the Neurodiversity Paradigm - the why, the how and the broader systems it challenges. To truly understand the paradigm, we examine the many interconnected “puzzle pieces” that shape how difference, distress, and disability are understood, treated, and controlled.

Grounded in lived experience and critical frameworks, this session moves beyond surface-level explanations to explore how power, knowledge, and systems intersect with neurodivergence.

Participants will explore topics including:

• The roots of the pathology paradigm and why it persists

• What epistemic injustice is and how it shows up in mental health and neurodivergent spaces

• How the pathology paradigm silences neurodivergent knowledge and lived experience

• What neuronormativity is and how it operates as a system of power and how it intersects with carceral and compliance-based systems

• What the Neurodiversity Paradigm actually is (and what it isn’t)

• Intersections with related movements including Mad Pride and The Hearing Voices Movement

• Applying the Neurodiversity Paradigm in practice to altered states, plurality, hearing voices and more

Rather than collapsing these experiences into pathology, the workshop examines how the Neurodiversity Paradigm offers alternative ways of understanding, supporting, and responding that centre autonomy, dignity, and lived experience.

This deep-dive session is best suited for clinicians, educators, advocates and professionals who already have a foundational knowledge of neurodiversity and want to engage more critically with the systems, politics, and implications of the Neurodiversity Paradigm.

In this training, participants will build a foundational understanding of neurodivergence and the many ways neurodivergent minds experience and move through the world.

We’ll explore common neurodivergent differences, including:

• sensory differences

• executive functioning differences

• attention and focus differences

• social and communication differences

• voice hearing, plurality, and altered states

Participants will also develop a shared understanding and language around key neurodivergent concepts and terminology, including:

• Spoon Theory and capacity

• stimming

• spiky skillsets

• special interests

• masking

• meltdowns and burnout

This workshop centres lived experience and neurodiversity affirming perspectives, helping participants move beyond stereotypes and deficit based models.