A Whole Embedded Model For Understanding Neurodivergence

2.5 hr Live Online CPD Workshop or 🎥 Buy The Recording | All Tickets £35

About this event

This LIVE workshop will help attendees conceptualise stress, trauma, and harm by accounting for the interplay between intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual stressors, and their impact on mental health, with a focus on neurodivergent communities.

It will draw on a whole (embedded) model of stress, trauma, and harm, which expands beyond typical universalised and decontextualised approaches to understanding relationships and trauma.

In this model, relationships are viewed not only as interpersonal, but also as existing in conjunction with groups, communities, linguistics, environments, institutions, and sociocultural and socio-political structures.

A number of mainstream relational stress, trauma and harm theories will be reviewed in light of this whole model, including those addressing acculturation, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), normativity/variety, historical trauma, attachment, intergenerational trauma, introjections, language, structural policies, culture, and societal messages.

These perspectives will be explored in relation to how they account for interconnected relationships in the experience of stress, trauma, and harm within these communities.

Takeaways - Tools you’ll walk away with

1. Understand a whole model for thinking about stress, trauma, and harm.
2. Conceptualise stress, trauma, and harm for neurodivergent clients, with particular consideration of self and lived context (including opportunities for co-creation of possibilities).
3. Begin developing an understanding of the overarching approach to embedding neurodiversity and neurodivergence into practice.

About your Speaker: Mamood Ahmad (he/him) – Psychotherapist UKCP, Trainer, Author : A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy [Routledge books]

Mamood Ahmad is a Psychotherapist, Course Tutor, Speaker, and whole-person DEI consultant, as well as the founder of The Anti-Discrimination Focus (#TADF) community, which was established in 2020, and this community aims to promote equity by design within the educational foundations of therapeutic practice. As a UKCP Psychotherapist with almost two decades of experience in private practice, with specialisms in trauma, multicultural competence, and advocacy, his primary focus now is professional standards change.

He is the author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Routledge) which embeds neurodiversity/neurodivergence throughout causation, self-development, theory, practice, skills, advocacy. Based on five years of research and community engagement in developing a fully embedded approach to knowledge and practice that includes everyone by design. Click here to find out more about his new book.

Who It’s For

This workshop welcomes those with an interest in the subject of relational trauma and neurodiversity, including both Neurotypical and Neurodivergent people working as Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Family Therapists, Coaches, and Teachers.

What to Expect

Format: Workshop, Slides, breakouts, group discussion, Q&A, experiential activity

Vibe: Interactive, introspective, empowering, philosophical, lively

A video of the event will be sent to you the week after the LIVE event

Event Details:

🗓️ Date: Friday, March 6th 2026

⏰ Time: 12:00–2:30 UK

📍 Location: Zoom (link sent upon ticket purchase)

💵 Cost: £35

🎟️ Reserve your spot now — Space is limited to keep the group intimate and safe.

🎥 ON DEMAND - Buy The Recording: Purchase a ticket and you will receive the recording and a CPD certificate

(Please note: CoPratice tier membership includes free access to the recording)

What's included?

1 year access to the online Video Recording and a CPD Certificate of Attendance

Course Delivery

Live online on Zoom or Via a Video Recording send out the week after the workshop

Accessibility

For any accessibility requirements, please get in touch with the organiser at events@counsellors-staffroom.co.uk, who will be happy to make arrangements with you before the event

Refund Policy

Regrettably, all bookings are non-refundable in the event of cancellation in advance by you or your non-attendance on the day

Booking conditions:

1. Tickets are sold via Eventbrite only

2. Cancellation by you - All bookings are non-refundable

3. Behaviour:

We all have a part in creating a positive, welcoming space in our events. This means being open to hearing when our behaviour or language may not have landed well with others, and contributing in ways that help keep the atmosphere respectful and supportive. If behaviour is disruptive or inappropriate, we may remove you from the event to protect the group. For more on how we work together, please see our Community Guidelines.

If you have any questions about this workshop, feel free to email events@counsellors-staffroom.co.uk