Welcoming Difference: Neurodiversity

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of neurodiversity and how social attitudes, structures, and expectations can include or exclude. The course is for anyone involved in meetings, community life, or work with children and young people who wants to grow in confidence, compassion, and practical awareness and to create spaces where difference is affirmed rather than managed.

Across three two-hour sessions, Wendy Hampton and Kate Fox will be in conversation with one another, modelling reflective dialogue and inviting shared questioning.

Sessions will cover why we are focussing on late and undiagnosed neuro-diversity, updates in thinking, welcome in Meetings, sensory needs, masking and camouflaging, Quaker history and witness as challenging and resisting neuro normative society, children and young people and neuro-affirming spaces.