About this event
Welcome to the Living & Working with Neurodivergence: Mental Health & Wellbeing 2025 conference!
We are thrilled to invite you to a day of insightful workshops and discussions, all from the comfort of your own space via Zoom. Our event offers a diverse array of workshops, allowing attendees the freedom to tailor their experience to their interests and needs.
We believe in accessibility for all, which is why we offer a unique ticketing system where attendees can choose their price, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to participate.
Plus, with access to both the LIVE Zoom event AND recordings, you can engage with the content at your own pace.
Join us for a day of learning and connection.
RECORDING
This conference will be recorded and your ticket gives you access to all recordings in Onlinevents CPD Library. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This conference will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS:
Cattitude: A Polyvagal Informed Approach to Self and Self Care for ADHD and Trauma – Eve Menezes Cunningham
Are you ready to start Feline Better Every Day? Eve makes Polyvagal Theory (one of the core elements of her practice since 2011) fun and user-friendly with the help of her rescue cats. In this experiential session, you’ll learn how to befriend your nervous system, soothe your self talk and (by integrating these simple but effective self-care practises) potentially retrain your nervous system and rewire your brain. We’re all wired to thrive when we feel safe, welcome and loved. Glimmers can help us tweak and even transform our work, relationships and lives. Our extra sensitive nervous systems and even RSD can become gifts by learning to understand and work with rather than against ourselves.
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Procrastination in Leadership: A Neurodivergent Approach to Taking Action – Errin Anderson
Procrastination in leadership is rarely about time management—it’s about decision paralysis, emotional regulation, and fear of getting it wrong. For neurodivergent professionals, traditional productivity advice often fails because it doesn’t account for executive dysfunction, rejection sensitivity, or the way our brains process urgency and overwhelm.
In this 90-minute interactive online workshop, we’ll go beyond the usual “just push through it” strategies and explore:
- Why neurodivergent professionals procrastinate and how to reframe avoidance as a self-protection mechanism.
- The hidden emotional and cognitive blocks behind leadership procrastination (perfectionism, decision fatigue, and dopamine-driven motivation).
- Live group coaching where attendees will walk through a structured, ADHD-friendly 3-Step “Action Blueprint” for breaking procrastination cycles in real-time.
- Practical, immediately applicable strategies designed for neurodivergent professionals, therapists, and coaches—helping both themselves and their clients move from avoidance to action.
This session will be highly interactive, using live coaching techniques, chat-based participation, and structured reflection exercises, ensuring that even in a large online setting, attendees can engage, reflect, and implement the strategies in real-time.
By the end of the session, attendees will leave with:
- A deeper understanding of their own procrastination patterns.
- A practical, actionable plan to tackle avoidance in leadership roles.
- Tools to support neurodivergent clients and teams through decision-making and productivity challenges.
This isn’t just another productivity talk—it’s a real coaching experience designed to help neurodivergent professionals finally get unstuck.
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Approaches to Working Creatively with Neurodivergent Clients – Louise Lucas
In this sessions we’ll focus on creative ways to support neurodivergent clients wellbeing based on Louise’s two spirals model of ND wellbeing. This model has been developed over time through a mixture of Louise’s work with neurodivergent clients, her own lived experience as a multiply neurodivergent human alongside her professional and academic knowledge. This model focuses on a move away from blame and shame through kindness and compassion to support clients to stay out of burn out and find balance.
We will think about different creative approaches that could be used to support clients understanding of their own neurodivergent wellbeing and what can impact it to move up or down the spirals. This will include considering the potential barriers that neurodivergent clients might experience to some creative approaches, dependent on how their neurodivergence shows up for them. We will also think about how we can approach this work in a way that is affirming for all neurotypes and aligns with the values of the model.
This session will use powerpoint presentation, alongside the opportunity for experiential learning either alone or in breakout rooms for all attendees.
By the end of this session you will:
- Be familiar with the two spirals model of neurodivergent wellbeing
- Understand some of the considerations you may need to take into account when working creatively with neurodivergent clients
- Have the opportunity to try working with the two spiral model in creative ways.
Suggested Resources
- Paper and pens/pencils will be useful for all attendees, but any resources you use to work with clients are welcome in the sessions as you will be given the opportunity to think about how you can adapt exercises to your own style.
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Being without Labels: Restorative Perspectives on Humanness and Joy – Dr Francesca Bernardi
This workshop offers possibilities to redress the pathologising impact of labels on individuals and families, in education, health and social discourse more broadly. This is a perspective that is socially-engaged and restorative, one that seeks to encourage reflection and recognition to dismantle the emphasis on need, vulnerability and loss, and revise the public imaginary around autism, neurodiversity, dis/ability. A gentle talk on embracing and understanding commonalities and capabilities; this workshop includes evocative and creative moments (through marks, words, poetry…) for collection and pause, for justice and grace, facilitating ways to nourish our shared humanness, questioning power, disempowerment and othering, to re-imagine stories and being without labels.
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Tracy Clark
As a private practitioner of many years, I have had the privilege of working with and supporting clients from the neurodivergent community. Mainly people who are autistic and dyslexic. My clients include individuals, couples and young people. I am Person-centred trained however I have used various modalities and creative ways within my clinical practice to meet the client’s needs.
I have been assessed over the years for an intellectual learning disability, called Dyslexia. My personal experience of being dyslexic has been very mixed over the years, however I find that as a visual learner I can incorporate my experience of dyslexia into my clinical practice.
Website | www.tracyaclarkcounselling.co.uk
Facebook | Tracy A Clark Counselling
LinkedIn | Tracy Clark PgDip
John Wilson
I have been facilitating in Counselling & Psychotherapy programmes in the UK for more than 10 years.
I am currently the director at Temenos Education and have a private practice where I offer online Psychotherapy and Supervision using video and chat communication platforms along with virtual environments. I am also the co-founder of onlinevents which has grown to be the world’s largest library of online video and audio content with instant certification and a learning log.
I am also a past chair of the Association for Counselling & Therapy Online (ACTO) and have served for 6 years on the board of the World Association for Person Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counselling. My passion to bring online learning into the field of Counselling & Psychotherapy has also led to the development of online experiential learning within the Temenos programme, facilitating the exposure of Temenos students to external tutors who are located in different parts of the world. Along with the inclusion of experiential learning of online Counselling & Psychotherapy for Temenos students so that they qualify with knowledge and practice in online communication and relationship.
You can read an article I co-authored about online group facilitation here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UB2QJDKNCGUMUNUURU8W/full?target=10.1080/14779757.2019.1650807
