At The Cutting Edge: Coaching Neurodivergent clients; practical tools and insights for career professionals
The CDI and NICEC continue our collaborative Cutting Edge webinar series with our bi-annual seminars. This event is free to CDI Members & NICEC Members. You will be asked for your membership number upon booking.
Rationale and purpose of this session
Neurodiversity has gained significant momentum and recognition, and neurodivergent people (NDers) are typically over-represented within the population of those who seek career support.
This At the Cutting-Edge session will set the scene by sharing some contemporary research on the topic of neurodiversity and encourage an approach of intersectionality. The session will explore some of the challenges that NDers have faced and how those issues continue to impact upon their career development, illustrated through the sharing of stories and cases.
We will explore some fundamental questions including:
- What are the strengths of Neurodivergent clients?
- What are some of the unique challenges that they face?
- What is the benefit of taking a neuroinclusive approach in learning environments, workplaces and society as a whole?
- What are the ethical boundaries that we might want to consider when working with Neurodivergent clients?
- What are some practical actions that we can take when working with NDers or those presenting with Neurodivergent traits?
This two-hour session will comprise a series of short input sessions, where highlights are shared from both research and case studies of working with NDer clients, as well as some practical tools and structures for supporting our coaching work with this group.
In addition, this session will be interspersed with interactive, small group discussions in break-out rooms, combined with whole group discussion and sense-making. Here we will reflect upon: what this means for our own coaching practice? What questions are we left with? The session will culminate in a signposting to additional relevant resources and events to help us to continue with our CPD.
As hosts of this session, NICEC Fellows Dr Cathy Brown and Kate Mansfield will guide us through our agenda; they look forward to seeing you there.