Neurodiversity Inclusion

This workshop will equip attendees with essential knowledge and practical tools to help them understand and create neurodivergent affirming practices within their organization.

The goal is for participants to walk away with practical advice and actionable tips, tricks, and tools to support neurodivergent colleagues, employees, and clients more effectively.

Participants will discuss fundamental Concepts of Neurodivergence, explore their own conceptions and ideas about neurodivergence, how this impacts how they approach others who are different (or themselves), and unpack sneaky and subtle ableism/internalized ableism.

Participants will learn what it actually means to be a neurodivergent-affirming workplace for both employees and clients (in client facing organizations), how to implement this knowledge to create inclusive workspaces for different neurotypes, and implement tools for communicating across neurotypes.

Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this learning opportunity if there

is inadequate registration.

This session may be recorded to share with attendees.

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More about our facilitator, Lacy Alana:

YES AND BRAIN PROVIDES TRAININGS WORLDWIDE. TEAM HOME BASES INCLUDE TORONTO, MONTREAL, AUSTIN, INDIANA, AND OTTAWA. WE REGULARLY TRAVEL TO PROVIDE OUR SPECIALIZED TRAININGS ALL OVER THE WORLD.

The Yes And Brain framework is the creation of Licensed Clinical Social Worker, corporate trainer, and multidisciplinary artist, Lacy Alana. As Lacy spent time in the clinical, educational, corporate, and expressive arts worlds over the last decade, she recognized that she was having great success blending facets from each discipline into the others.

When colleagues asked her to teach them tools to mimic her work, she developed the Yes And Brain framework to serve as a foundational framework for work in each setting. Over the years, The Yes And Brain Model has continued to be refined, with specialized sub-models and training pathways for many different populations.

Lacy has a varied professional history, including working in the corporate world (with a business/advertising degree), providing corporate trainings and keynotes, running specialized circus and improv theatre programs for neurodivergent and at-risk youth, training educators/helping professionals/medical professionals, and working as a psychotherapist. Lacy provides one-of-a-kind trainings that fuse Interpersonal Neurobiology, therapeutic frameworks, business communication, and pedagogy from improvisational theatre and the circus arts.

Lacy Alana

Yes and Brain

https://yesandbrain.com/

Host or Publisher Nonprofit Austin at ACC