A Rough Guide to Me and My Neurodivergent Family

If you are coming as a group, please email [email protected] and we will send you an invoice; the price will be £760 or £450 for the first person and £300 (approx $400) for each additional person.

Description

Does your partner make no sense to you in the way they approach certain tasks? Do your parents often misinterpret your behaviour? Do you have children whose needs clash and you’re constantly trying to help them to compromise? Do you and the people you care about find yourself in patterns of Drama when you want to understand and be understood?

When our brains are wired differently from those of people around us, we can get confused, frustrated, furious or full of despair. We might simply not make sense to one another and avoid interacting. 

Sometimes we are so differently wired from another that we cannot conceive of how their internal world works. It can be like travelling to a very distant land with completely different language, customs and meaning. We need a rough guide simply to navigate the most basic of landmarks. 

This weekend is about developing a Rough Guide to Me and my Neurodivergent family. You can come along on your own and compare and contrast your landscape with those of other participants. You can come along with friends, colleagues or with other members of your family and compare and contrast your landscapes with those close to you as well as with the other participants. 

Our aim over these two days is to use a technique called clean questions and an approach of clean attention to help us to understand other people through the logic and landscape of their world rather than imposing our own onto theirs.

It’s open to anyone wanting to attend for their personal exploration. It is also open to family therapists, coaches, managers, teachers and HR professionals wanting to have better ways to explore and respond to the different processing patterns of the people they support.

There is some pre-reading and some personal preparation prior to attending so please make sure that you can devote three hours of personal reflection and planning time before you arrive. This can be done on your own or you can make use of the Clean Campus and have a skilled volunteer do a Clean-ish interview with you to help you to prepare for the weekend.

A light vegetarian lunch will be provided and there will be juice, tea and coffee through the day.

Your trainer(s)

Caitlin Walker PhD

Director

Caitlin is the developer of Systemic Modelling and author of From Contempt to Curiosity. She is equally at home sharing her ideas with large audiences, facilitating change in small groups and doing deep one-to-one therapy.

Sarah Baca

Sarah is a coach, therapist, facilitator, and teacher who has a passion for using Clean Language to help others discover what makes them feel vibrantly alive. She has been working with organizations as an agile coach for over a decade, specializing in enterprise and leadership coaching.

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