Neurodiversity in the Workplace Champion Workshop

Description

Course Overview

This half-day workshop delivered face-to-face or online is designed for anyone in your organisation that wants to become a Neurodiversity Champion - someone who wants to educate and change the way that Neurodiversity is viewed in the workplace.

This workshop aims to lead acceptance of neurodiversity, across the workplace and beyond, and to help facilitate and change the culture in your workplace around neurodiversity and its acceptance.

Learning Outcomes

• Recap of terminology around neurodiversity. 
• Be confident to list the main neurodiverse conditions.
• Understand the strengths that are common within 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.
• Activity to personally experience what it feels like to have an executive functioning challenge.
• Understand why it’s important for diversity and inclusion to include neurodiverse individuals.
• Be introduced to the concept of school trauma and the impact this has on learning 
• new skills.
• Learn the importance of clear communication and develop an understanding of how complex communication can be via an activity.
• Be introduced to sensory overload.
• Understand how meltdowns and shutdowns occur and the negative impacts they have.
• Discover ways to create a more inclusive sensory safe working environment.
• Understand the idea that anxiety can be caused by external factors.
• Be able to recognise anxiety within yourself and others.
• Learn ways to manage anxiety through regulation.
• Gain practical tools to add to a mental health and wellbeing virtual toolbox to support yourself and others experiencing a crisis.
• Start to understand that all behaviour is communication and look towards support rather than judgment.
• 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-identified as neurodiverse from kindness and legal view.
• Understand the positive impact that reasonable adjustments can make and have an idea where to start implementing them.

Note: We limit numbers to 16 people per workshop so that instructors can keep people safe and supported while they learn.