Half-Day Neurodiversity Champions Workshop
This is a half-day workshop delivered either online or face-to-face.
This workshop is designed for anyone that wants to become a Neurodiversity Champion – someone who wants to educate and change the way that neurodiversity is viewed in your company.
The aims of this workshop are:
- to lead acceptance of neurodiversity across the workplace and beyond
- help facilitate and change the culture in your workplace around neurodiversity and its acceptance.
The result of completing an Aware webinar and a Champion workshop combined means that you will become a Thrive Neurodiverse Standards Employer.
What you will learn in the Champion workshop
- Confidently list the main neurodiverse conditions and the set of strengths common to each condition
- Develop an understanding of how an individual living with each condition may present within the workplace
- Gain a basic understanding of executive functioning
- Understand the concept of neurodiversity in terms of executive functioning within daily life
- Personally experience what it feels like to have an executive functioning challenge.
- Understand why it’s important for diversity and inclusion to include neurodivergent individuals
- The concept of school trauma and the impact this has on learning new skills
- Understand how meltdowns and shutdowns occur and the negative impacts they have
- Discover ways to create a more sensory-safe working environment
- Understand the idea that anxiety can be caused by external factors
- Be able to recognise anxiety within yourself and others, and learn ways to manage anxiety
- Create a mental health and wellbeing virtual toolbox to support yourself and anyone else experiencing a crisis
- Learn the importance of clear communication and develop an understanding of how complicated communication actually is
- Start to understand that all behaviour is communication and aim to support rather than judge.
- Unpack that communication errors are faults on all sides and find out how to prevent low morale within a workplace.
- Discover the importance of supporting those who self-identify as neurodivergent
- The positive impact that you can make through reasonable adjustments