 This Sunday, 30th June, ahead of the UK #generalelection as Development Lead at Neurodiverse Connection (NdC), I'm part of the Therapy and Social Change Mind the Vote Summit Lived Experience Panel.
We will be speaking on how we have/or haven't participated in therapy, whether therapy supports social change, and the way we understand how politics influence this experience. Delighted to be joining Cassie & Charli @charliclement_ Associates at NdC This looks like a fantastic event. Check it out 👇 https://therapyandsocialchange.net/ To book a FREE 👇 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/therapy-and-social-change-summit-mind-the-vote-tickets-915409864547?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=
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 First month of work as Development Lead at www.ndconnection.co.uk has flown by & I've loved every minute of it! So great to be part of a team #strongertogether
Completing this week's work recording an intro video to the Neurodivergent Wellbeing Approach training for YouTube. The next round of training starts in Sept. Option 1 : Starting Tuesday 10th September 2024 4 x Half Day Sessions (9.30am-1pm) Option 2: Starting Tuesday 1st October 2024 8 x 1.5 hr Evening Sessions (6-7.30pm) To book 👇 https://ndconnection.co.uk/ndwatraining See you there!  STARTS TOMORROW 👇
Join me & other speakers June 28th to July 1st at @alisonpalmer.circles FREE online summit ✨ Magnificent Menopause: Reclaim and Celebrate the Power of Menopause and Post-Menopause ✨ I'll be speaking on ✨ Radically Rethinking, Embodying and Meeting our Spiritual Needs throughout our Menopause Journey ✨ I’ve been asked to speak at this conference because of my own ongoing menopausal journey and my belief that we can radically rethink menopause and reframe it as a passage rich with gifts, that can meet our spiritual needs I'll be sharing: ✨ how your body is a deeply intelligent and rich source of information ✨ ... and how menopause can ignite our 'sacred rage' (as it did for me) ✨ ... and more about neurodivergent & neurodiversity plus, info about the published @girlgodbooks workbooks & online resources I've created to support you with the journey. You can sign up in the linktree @alisonpalmer.circles or paste the url in the reel into your browser: www.fullcirclewomen.com/magnificentmenopause/  I'm in RECOVERY
I'm GETTING BACK & REGAINING my wholeness through regaining my humane, humanitarian, HUMANITY. And to do this I'm in RECOVERY from all the 'addictions' & bypasses I'd adopted to stop feeling the sensations, emotions & feelings which accompany being an interdependent human. And this includes RECOVERY from: hyper-individualism, productivity, consumerism, workaholism, mind dominance ... and the 'cults' (& accompanying group think) of ... social media, celebrity, academia, mainstream western (colonial) therapy, pop psychology, religion & the capitalist new age spiritual & wellness industries. I'm in RECOVERY to GET BACK & REGAIN my animal body - its feelings, emotions & sensations - it's vulnerability & depth but most crucially COMPASSION, INTERCONNECTEDNESS & INTER-BEING for & with the earth & every living being on it. And that RECOVERY requires undoing & sacrifice, accountability & responsibility.  Really superb writing by Helen @autisticrealms in which our book #embodiededucation (published by @girlgodbooks) is referenced 👇
"The DEEP (DOUBLE EMPATHY EXTREME PROBLEM) arises from feelings of disconnect; not only from cultural, sexual, political, religious, neurodivergent, or any other cross-section of differences but also through embodiment, or lack thereof. The double empathy gap is non-linear; it is deep, multidimensional, rhizomatic, and holographic (Mirra, 2023). DEEP could be a huge contributing factor that leads to burnout and ill health. The DEEP gap can break people at their core, leaving them fragmented, disconnected, disoriented and disembodied, feeling like they’re in a void space. Bodyminds is a term used to challenge the idea the body and mind are experienced separately (Descartes). There is a gap between those who are intune with their own #bodyminds and the bodyminds of those they are with and people who are dis-embodied, (regardless of any intersectionality and other empathy gap that may be present). As Walker (2021) says; “Mind is inextricably entwined with brain, and brain with body; thus, mind is inextricably entwined with body in a single complex system and in a continuous dance of mutual shaping.We’re not minds riding around in vehicles of flesh and bone; we’re bodyminds, bodies that think and perceive. Experience, awareness, sense of self, psychological development, and capacities for feeling, knowing, cognition, connection, and action are all entwined with — and shape, and are shaped by — habits of bodily usage, including habits of movement, posture, breath, contact, consumption, tension and relaxation, gaze, gesture, and expression.” I am learning to be more embodied through somatic practice and connecting with other people exploring these ideas across various communities. The work of Kay & Dan Aldred (2023) about Embodied Education demonstrates how embodiment is essential for individuals to thrive, we need somatic practice embedded into the ways our education and healthcare systems operate and evolve, we need people to be deeply intune with others, embodied, so they can transform and work more meaningfully."   June 28th to July 1st : Online - FREEJoin me and don't miss out on this exceptional, free 5-day online event beginning Friday June 28th -- the Magnificent Menopause Summit.
This is a unique experience, exploring a deep diversity of ways to transform the experience of menopause and how it impacts our post-menopausal journeys. You will be amazed ... Join leading experts as they explore perimenopause and post-menopause, emphasising that we can reclaim this powerful experience as an essential rite of passage that empowers us to come into our fullness, access our wisdom and transition into influential leaders in our work, our community, our family and our lives. Access five insightful days and learn from over 20 teachers and leaders, including ... Alexandra Pope, Elena Brower, Pamela Windle, Lauren Chiren, Cathy Skipper, Robin Rose Bennett, Rachel Lankester, Dr Sonia Wright, Katie Day, Sally Bartlett, Jewels Wingfield, Sally Garozzo, Dana Lawson, Kay Louise Aldred, Dionne Roberts, Jolinda Johnson, Gabriella Espinosa, Adele Johnson, Kelly Murray, Rebekah Brown and host Alison Palmer PhD. Register now for FREE. Register now for the Magnificent Menopause Summit 2024 and you will gain 48-hour free viewing access to each Summit day’s presentations, and instant access to 20 powerful and free gifts to inform and support you on your own personal perimenopausal through to your long post-menopausal journey. Whether you are just entering your perimenopause or realising that many of the well-being issues you face now in your post-menopausal years may well be due to unresolved issues from your perimenopause, this Summit will be an enriching and enlightening experience. In this free online event, you'll: Learn from leading experts in menopause and spirituality, mindfulness, sexual pleasure, body confidence, nutrition, stress-management and so much more ... Discover the lasting impact of menopause upon your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being ... and learn healing ways to improve the quality of your life ... into your 70s, 80s and 90s! Explore how to work with plant medicine and herbs and transform menopause into a life of play and adventure. Understand the spiritual and ancient rites of passage available to you so that your post-menopause is a time of rich fullness and powerful authenticity. Learn more about how to get the support you want and need so that you are empowered to get real solutions to your specific menopause issues (whether it's hot flashes, bloating, insomnia, weight gain, depression, anxiety, or any other of the possible 44 + issues you may be having) Join a community of like-minded women committed to have real conversations about our menopause so we can shatter the myths that it's the "end", that it's shameful or that we must struggle on alone. Reclaim and celebrate your POWERFUL menopause as a real process of transformation and rise like the phoenix from the flames in all your true energy and new colours! You'll also have access to 20 high-value free gifts from the dynamic guests so that you can take this learning to the next level and start to transform your own well-being. This unmissable event addresses this important transition that 100% of women go through and does so with a loving, inspiring energy that enables you to integrate all that you learn into your daily life. I hope you’ll join us! Register for free here. P.S. When you attend the 5-day Magnificent Menopause summit ... … you’ll learn how, when you become aware of - and learn key insights on how to transform - how perimenopause and menopause can affect the rest of your life, you can experience real changes in your own well-being - body, mind, soul and emotions. Click here to register for free now.  Phenomenal resources & writing by @stimpunks & @autisticrealms & delighted #embodiededucation (our book published in 2023 by @girlgodbooks ) is part of it
"Once again, I have started the beginning of this project in the middle of everything else! We dived in deep and realised our project had been underway for many years, but neither of us had the vocabulary of ‘neuroqueer’ and ‘neuroqueering’ (Nick Walker, 2021) to describe our thoughts and help us understand our journey. Now we have that vocabulary; it has opened up another world within a world. It enables us to connect and learn from others who are also interested in the neurodiversity paradigm and postnormal possibilities. It is carving out a pathway for us to expand our community networks and help facilitate a shift in the way education is currently structured. It is helping us move towards what Kay and Dan Aldred (2023) describe as an Embodied Education, which could be seen to be the golden thread that runs through Neuroqueer Learning Spaces. Embodied education is a concept we will return to and weave through our work alongside other emergent ideas about being a ‘space holder’ to allow the freedom of creative learning to take place. Aldred (2023) wrote, ‘There is no learning without the body.’ We will collaborate with different communities to discover what an embodied, neuroqueer education and learning space may mean for those facilitating education and how it could support young people."  🌟 FREE WEBINAR 🌟 TUES 18TH JUNE 2-4 PM 🌟
ISSUES THAT IMPACT AUTISTIC WOMEN & GIRLS IN THE COMMUNITY Partners in Care in Health is delivering an online event on the issues that impact on autistic women to further the understanding of the council and NHS staff who support them in the community, with speakers, Kay Louise Aldred & Molly Anderton, from Neurodiverse Connection, and NHS staff from the Oxford Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Hospital at Home Eating Disorders Service, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Who should attend: Council social care as well as health staff involved in the development and delivery of services for autistic women e.g., council senior managers, commissioners, and operational leads, NHS staff Experts by experience and other partners such as providers are very welcome to attend.  Wow Wow Wow 🎉
The newly formatted & designed NdC Neurodivergent Wellbeing Approach Coursebook looks 👌 Training course starting again in the autumn: Option 1 : Starting Tuesday 10th September 2024 4 x Half Day Sessions (9.30am-1pm) Option 2: Starting Tuesday 1st October 2024 8 x 1.5 hr Evening Sessions (6-7.30pm) See you there!  I’m really excited to be part of this month's live workshop @the_pdaspace talking with Nicola about neurodivergence, well-being and trauma.
Details below: ❇️ During the workshop, Kay will be covering: 🌟 What wellbeing is 🌟 What embodiment is and why it is important to consider 🌟 Why transitions are hard – especially concerning PDA & suggested strategies and suggestions of how to support family well-being during times of change 🌟 From an embodiment perspective, demands put us into sympathetic activation – so the key as a family is to build the capacity to tolerate sympathetic activation. 🌟 Hence looking after you before a transition happens. 📣 Come and join me and Kay during this LIVE Workshop in Portal this Friday 14th June at 1pm (BST/GMT) 🧡 To understand Embodiment and Trauma and how to support yourself and your family in a more nourishing way. If you have any questions please ask and I’ll send them across to Kay ready for Friday. This is within the membership of the Portal that’s £15.00 a month. |
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