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Autistic Empowerment 2 Day Neuro-Affirming Takiwātanga Training
Autistic Empowerment:
2 Day Neuro-Affirming Autism Training
- Enhance your understanding of your Autistic clients
- Learn from lived experience, clinical practice, and current research.
- Leave with a toolkit of neuro-affirming strategies
Overview
This 14-hour professional development course offers a neuro-affirming and lived experienced look at the strengths, perspectives, and needs of autistic youth. Gain practical strategies and resources to use immediately in your work. Facilitated by Abigail Raymond (Neurodivergent AuDHD), and Arletta van den Bosch and both experienced counsellors and educators with over 40 years combined experience. Ideal for therapists, counsellors, social workers, support workers, and other professionals, this training benefits those with both limited and advanced autism knowledge.
Key Learning Points
- Understanding neurodiversity affirming principles and practice
- A neuro-affirming and lived experience understanding of autism
- Ensuring safe, inclusive, affirming environments, supports and approaches
- Neuro-affirming language, goals, strategies and processes
- Autistic SPACE: a novel framework for meeting the needs of autistic people in healthcare settings
- Autistic girls, women, and non-binary individuals
- Sexuality and gender diversity within autism
- Embracing authentic autistic social connections
- Understanding masking and autistic burnout
- Supporting anxiety and regulation
- Navigating passions and hyperfocus
- Sensory safety and needs
- Autistic empowerment and flourishing
- Prioritising autistic lived experience and voices Advocating for acceptance, inclusion, and celebration
- Supporting autistic individuals, whānau, communities
- Understanding assessment pathways and service navigation
The Facilitators
Arletta van den Bosch (SHE/HER/AI)
Child and family counsellor for 20 years, specializing for the past 12 years in supporting autistic youth and adults, their whanau, and communities. I hold a Masters in Autism from Griffith University, focusing on autism and anxiety. For 8 years, I worked at a charity supporting families and communities with autism. Currently, I run a private practice offering neuro-affirmative support to autistic clients and their families, and provide workshops and training on autism and neurodiversity. I am a contractor for OT and the Ministry of Education, a full member of NZAC, and am studying a PG in Neurodiversity while participating in various autism peer groups.
Abigail Raymond (she/her/ai)
Neurodivergent (AuDHD) counsellor, arts therapist, clinical supervisor, trainer and mother based in Tāmaki Makaurau. My practice combines lived experience with professional training, research, and two decades of clinical experience. I work with whānau, schools, organisations, and professionals to develop neuro-inclusive and affirming supports that empower autistic and neurodivergent individuals. In my private practice I provide neuro-affirming support for parents of autistic and neurodivergent children, clinical supervision for professionals, and training on neurodivergent and queer affirming practice. I am a full member and approved supervisor with both NZAC and ANZACATA.
Details
When: Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd Nov. 2024 (9 am-5 pm)
Where: 14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak, Auckland
Fees: $ 595 (incl. GST)
This two-day training includes welcoming refreshments, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea, workbook, and PD certificate.