Thrive: helping one person at a time
Neurodiversity in the Workplace Champion Workshop
4.5 hour workshop – max. 16 people – inclusive of CPD Certification, Digital Learning Guide and 3 Years Access to Online Learning Portal.
• This workshop aims to lead to acceptance of neurodiversity.
• Change the culture in your workplace around neurodiversity.
Thrive Neurodiversity in the Workplace Champion Workshop learning outcomes:
- Recap of terminology around neurodiversity.
- Be confident to list the main neurodivergent 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 neurodivergent 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-identify as neurodivergent from kindness and legal view.
- Understand the positive impact that reasonable adjustments can make and have an idea where to start implementing them.
Cost
£150 + VAT per delegate
How to book on our courses
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Discounts
A 5% discount is available to students, volunteers, third sector organisations, and bookings of more than one place (or course). Proof of concessionwill be required at point of booking.