Thrive Neurodiversity in the Workplace Champion workshop

This is a half-day workshop delivered either online or face-to-face.

The aims of this workshop are:

• to lead acceptance of neurodiversity across the workplace and beyond
• help facilitate and change the culture in your workplace around neurodiversity and its acceptance.

The result of completing an Aware webinar and a Champion workshop combined means that you will become a Thrive Neurodiverse Standards Employer.

What you will learn in the Champion workshop

• Confidently list the main neurodiverse conditions and the set of strengths common to 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

• 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
• The concept of school trauma and the impact this has on learning new skills
• Understand how meltdowns and shutdowns occur and the negative impacts they have
• Discover ways to create a more sensory-safe working environment
• Understand the idea that anxiety can be caused by external factors
• Be able to recognise anxiety within yourself and others, and learn ways to manage anxiety
• Create a mental health and wellbeing virtual toolbox to support yourself and anyone else experiencing a crisis
• Learn the importance of clear communication and develop an understanding of how complicated communication actually is
• Start to understand that all behaviour is communication and aim to support rather than judge.
• 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
• The positive impact that you can make through reasonable adjustments