Celebrating black Neurodiversity
In Honour of Black History Month UK, October 2019
We at the Counsellors Working with Neurodiversity Facebook Page wanted to use Black History Month this year to highlight the achievements of neurodiverse black people and shine a light on issues specifically relating to this minority within a minority. It is important that people of colour are included in the growing neurodiversity movement at all levels.
This document brings together links to various articles and videos about the inspirational black neurodiverse people/advocates themselves and family member allies who are making a difference.

This is a person-centred trainers' conference and other presenters include Janet Tolan, Pete Sanders and Mick Cooper.
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On Friday the 26th July 2019, I will be running an autism awareness workshop as part of this conference. Please contact the organisers for the full costs. This event is almost full so please contact the organisers asap if you would like to come along (details at the end of this message).

I am a person-centred counsellor who specialises In working with autistic clients, I have Aspergers and have children with Aspergers and autism. I am the author of the literature review: exploring the efficacy of person-centred counselling for autistic people published in the latest edition of the PCQ.

The workshop will have two main parts. In the first part, I will provide information about autistic functioning, looking at the differences which someone on the spectrum brings, compared to a neurotypical person, how it is to live with autism, understanding the world of an autistic person and getting a sense of how it is for them.

Moving on to look at how we might work with someone on the spectrum, what we need to be aware of, for example, how to form psychological contact and the relationship, how to attend to the environment, thinking about sensory issues for example, what we might 'do' to help facilitate. What we might need to be mindful of not 'doing' or assuming, for example addressing personal and body language which can be quite different. How all of this can be offered in a PC way.

The workshop will be interactive and at times hands on. Useful handouts will be provided at the end, which can be shared with the trainers students and the slides themselves will be available for reuse. The aim of this workshop is for trainers to be able to pass the training onto their students and raise awareness and confidence levels in future therapists in being equipped to help autistic clients. My overall mission is to improve the experience of counselling for the autistic client group.

Link to the main event for more details for booking below:-

https://www.bapca.org.uk/all-events/tpca/person-centred-trainers-conference.html

​To request a booking form please contact Ewa at champewa55@gmail.com