Resist cognitive colonialism with a practice-based lab exploring neuroaffirmative and neuroinclusive practice. Virtual Event. Register here.

In the UK, an estimated 15–20% of people are neurodivergent, yet many remain undiagnosed and/or unsupported, facing systemic barriers across education, healthcare, and employment, and therapeutic spaces are not immune to these dynamics. Psychology professions have historically been shaped by narrow ideas about attention, emotional regulation, communication, and 'functioning', which reproduce exclusion, misattunement, and harm for neurodivergent clients.

This practice space invites counsellors, psychotherapists and allied practitioners to examine how dominant psychological, educational, and clinical frameworks have been shaped by cognitive colonialism, which privileges Western, productivity-driven norms of thinking, learning, and relating, while marginalising neurodivergent and culturally diverse ways of being.

We will move away from deficit-based models of neurodivergence and develop ideas, practices and frameworks that are neuroaffirmative and neuroinclusive, situated within an intersectional and anti-oppressive apporach.

Bring your ideas, questions and examples from your work/life.

We look forward to developing our practice together.