Disability/neurodiversity training

Example courses:

Minority stress and mental health

Minority stress is a model that was proposed originally for LGB people and has since been researched for many marginalised groups. It is a well evidenced, coherent framework for understanding why marginalised people carry a greater mental health burden.

This session can focus on particular populations or take a wider view, depending on the needs of your organisation and the length of the training.

Depending on length, the training can cover:

  • Microaggressions and macroaggressions: cumulative stresses that lead to significant impact
  • The original minority stress research and what we’ve learned since then
  • Introducing the Web Model: a relational framework for understanding and mitigating minority stress
  • Trauma and dissociation: why the worse it is, the harder it can be to see
  • The specific mental health impacts of individual marginalised groups
  • Additional impacts related to living at the intersections of more than one marginalised identity

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Autism awareness training

Over the last decade, our understanding of autistic people has changed dramatically, with the neurodiversity movement and autistic-led research transforming the landscape of how we understand this much stigmatised and misunderstood identity, particularly in relation to the diversity of experiences and the way other identities intersect.

About the trainer: Sam Hope is an experienced diversity and inclusion trainer, and has been offering this training for many years. An autistic person who also has other identities that commonly overlap with autism, they work with diverse autistic clients to help them through the everyday challenges of a neuronormative world.

This training will cover

  • Myths and stereotypes: we will unpick and explore these.
  • Up-to-date models: Better understanding of what it’s like to be autistic.
  • Reasonable adjustments: what these might look like and how to embed them.
  • Strength-based approach: removing barriers so autistic people are able to contribute, participate and be fully included.
  • Overlaps and intersections: How autism overlaps with other neurodivergence, such as ADHD and dyslexia, as well as other differences such as hypermobility, being LGBTQIA+.
  • Exploring common issues: the double empathy problem, autistic burnout, sensory differences, communication differences, executive dysfunction, stimming, monotropism.

I am happy to tailor training to individual clients and contexts, my primary clients are HE/FE and third sector organisations.

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