WHAT'S NEW? Understanding and Responding to Neurodiversity for Leadership and Organisational Development

This multimodal training experience features co-produced content, including compelling videos, case studies and vignettes—all designed to inspire meaningful discussion and reflection. Grounded in research evidence and lived experience, the training provides an engaging, evidence-based learning journey.

Throughout the sessions, you’ll engage in group discussions to explore diverse roles, identify common challenges, and gain deeper insight into the needs of those you support. The training will introduce key theoretical frameworks to guide your development.

Crucially, the course will also encourage empathy by prompting reflection on how your own values, beliefs, and behaviours influence your interactions with others.

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What makes our trainings different

Lived experience at the centre

This isn’t just another clinical lecture — it’s a space built around real stories, real emotion, and real insight. We centre neurodivergent individuals, parents, and practitioners with lived experience, creating a space that feels honest, human, and deeply grounded.

Trauma beyond diagnosis

We don’t reduce trauma to checklists or labels. In this space, trauma is understood as relational, social, and systemic — shaped by racism, ableism, marginalisation, and institutional harm. That shift changes everything.

Challenging systems, not just symptoms

We name the ways that schools, healthcare, and social care can retraumatise. We don’t stop at naming — we share ways to work toward repair, accountability, and care within those systems.

Intersectional by design

This space doesn’t separate ethnicity, culture, and neurodivergence. We hold space for the lived experiences of Black, dual heritage, and global majority neurodivergent communities — voices often left out of neurodivergence conversations, but always central here.

Unmasking as a form of healing

Masking is seen for what it is: a survival strategy. We support clinicians to create a space where people don’t have to perform or explain, and where unmasking is supported gently, in relationship — not demanded.

Relational, not pathologising

We support teams to create neurodiversity-affirming space. We move away from “fixing” and instead focus on relational, collaborative practices — especially for those working in care, education, therapy, and advocacy.

Community-led and action-focused

This space is not about passive learning. It’s a space for reflection, honesty, and action — where people leave with tools, clarity, and a renewed commitment to building safer, more compassionate environments.

If you’re interested in bespoke training for your team on any aspect of mental health—such as depression, anxiety, psychosis, sleep disorders, eating disorders, suicidality, and trauma— and neurodivergence, including autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities, please contact us at:
📩 training@annafreud.org

Creating Safe and Reflective Learning Spaces for Ongoing Professional Development and Mentoring

We collaborate with the Anna Freud team to provide on-demand, safe, and reflective spaces that support professionals in developing inclusive, sensitive, and effective practices. These facilitated sessions empower participants to:

Understand the barriers neurodivergent individuals face across educational, employment, community care, and healthcare settings.
Adopt experience-sensitive and reflective approaches, working with—rather than on or for—neurodivergent people navigating challenges such as anxiety, depression, suicidality, self-harm, and behaviours of concern.
Develop a broad skillset and practical strategies to better meet the diverse needs of neurodivergent individuals and their families.
Model collaborative and acceptance-based values, helping to promote a balanced and empowering narrative around neurodiversity within their services.