Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop
Help create a more neuroinclusive culture with a practical workshop that gives learners the confidence to champion understanding, acceptance and support across your organisation.
Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop
The Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop is a half-day course designed for people who want to become Neurodiversity Champions. It supports learners to better understand neurodiversity, educate others and help drive positive culture change in workplaces, clinical settings, care environments, classrooms and wider teams.
This neurodiversity workshop builds on the Neurodiversity: Aware Webinar and explores how neurodivergent colleagues may experience work, communication, learning, sensory environments and support. It is practical, thoughtful and designed to help learners move from awareness into meaningful action.
Delivered by Changing Minds Training, the workshop helps organisations build confidence around neurodiversity inclusion in a warm, accessible and supportive way.
What is the Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop
The Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop is a practical training session for people who want to become active advocates for neurodiversity inclusion.
A Neurodiversity Champion is someone who helps raise awareness, challenge assumptions, support better conversations and encourage more inclusive ways of working. They do not need to be experts or clinicians. Their role is to help others understand neurodiversity with greater empathy, confidence and care.
This workshop explores the main neurodivergent conditions, strengths commonly associated with each, executive functioning, sensory overload, communication, anxiety, reasonable adjustments and the importance of responding with support rather than judgement.
The Neurodiversity: Aware Webinar is a mandatory prerequisite for the Champion Workshop, helping learners arrive with a shared foundation of understanding before moving into more practical champion-focused learning.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is suitable for anyone who wants to become a Neurodiversity Champion and support culture change in their organisation.
It is popular with:
The workshop is a helpful option for organisations that want to develop internal champions who can encourage understanding, support colleagues and help neurodiversity inclusion become part of everyday working culture.
It works across corporate, clinical, care and education settings, including offices, wards, classrooms and community environments.
What Will Learners Gain From The Workshop?
By the end of the Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop, learners will have a clearer understanding of neurodiversity and practical ways to support more inclusive workplaces.
Learners will explore how to:
- Recap of neurodiversity terminology and the main conditions
- Strengths common to each condition, and how they may present at work
- Executive functioning: a basic understanding, its role in daily life, and a hands-on activity to experience an executive functioning challenge
- Why neurodiverse inclusion matters to diversity and inclusion work
- School trauma and its impact on learning new skills
- Clear communication, including an activity on how complex communication can be
- Sensory overload, and how meltdowns and shutdowns occur and affect people
- Ways to build a more inclusive, sensory-safe working environment
- How anxiety can be triggered by external factors, and how to recognise and regulate it in yourself and others
- Practical tools for a mental health and wellbeing toolbox to support yourself and others in crisis
- Understanding all behaviour as communication — responding with support, not judgment
- Why communication breakdowns are rarely one-sided, and how to prevent low morale
- Supporting self-identified neurodivergent colleagues, from both a kindness and legal perspective
- The positive impact of reasonable adjustments, and where to start implementing them
The workshop is designed to help learners feel more confident turning awareness into everyday action. The focus is on practical support, thoughtful communication and creating environments where neurodivergent people feel better understood.
The Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop is delivered over half a day.
It can be delivered:
- Face-to-face
- Online
The workshop is interactive and practical, giving learners the opportunity to explore key ideas, take part in activities and reflect on how neurodiversity inclusion can be supported in their own workplace or setting.
The course includes a hands-on activity to help learners experience an executive functioning challenge, as well as an activity exploring how complex communication can be.
What does the workshop cover?
The Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop explores practical areas that help learners understand, support and advocate for neurodiversity inclusion.
Understanding neurodiversity
Learners begin by recapping neurodiversity terminology and the main neurodivergent conditions. This helps create a shared language and foundation for the rest of the workshop.
The session also explores strengths commonly associated with different neurodivergent profiles and how these may present at work.
Executive functioning
Learners explore executive functioning, what it means and how it can affect daily life, planning, focus, organisation and task management.
A hands-on activity helps learners better understand how executive functioning challenges can feel in practice.
Inclusion and lived experience
The workshop explores why neurodiversity inclusion matters within wider diversity and inclusion work.
Learners also consider school trauma and how previous experiences can affect confidence, self-esteem and learning new skills later in life.
Communication
Clear communication is a key part of neuroinclusive practice.
Learners explore how complex communication can be, why communication breakdowns are rarely one-sided and how clearer approaches can help reduce frustration, misunderstanding and low morale.
Sensory overload
The workshop introduces sensory overload and explores how meltdowns and shutdowns can happen and affect people.
Learners consider practical ways to build more inclusive, sensory-safe working environments.
Anxiety and wellbeing
Learners explore how anxiety can be triggered by external factors and how to recognise and regulate it in themselves and others.
The workshop also includes practical tools for a mental health and wellbeing toolbox to support yourself and others in moments of distress or difficulty.
Behaviour as communication
The workshop encourages learners to understand behaviour as communication.
This helps shift the focus away from judgement and towards curiosity, support and practical problem-solving.
Supporting colleagues and reasonable adjustments
Learners explore how to support self-identified neurodivergent colleagues with kindness, respect and an awareness of appropriate responsibilities.
The workshop also looks at the positive impact of reasonable adjustments and where to start when implementing them.
What Will Learners Receive?
Learners will receive a practical half-day workshop that helps them build the confidence and understanding to act as Neurodiversity Champions within their organisation.
Why Choose Changing Minds Training?
Changing Minds Training delivers accredited mental health, suicide prevention and wellbeing training built around compassion, lived experience and practical skills.
Based in Redhill, Surrey and delivering training nationwide, we support organisations, individuals and community groups to build confidence around mental health, wellbeing and inclusion.
We understand that neurodiversity inclusion can feel like an area where people worry about saying the wrong thing, missing someone’s needs or not knowing where to begin. This workshop helps learners build confidence through practical tools, clear language and compassionate discussion.
Our approach is:
- Warm, human and reassuring
- Practical and confidence-building
- Inclusive and accessible
- Focused on real workplace experiences
- Designed to support culture change
- Clear about communication, sensory needs and reasonable adjustments
- Suitable for corporate, clinical, care and education settings
The aim is not to make learners experts in half a day. Instead, they leave with a stronger understanding of neurodiversity and a clearer sense of how they can champion better support and inclusion.
Public and private Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop options
Public Courses
Public courses may be suitable for individuals and small groups who want to develop their understanding and become Neurodiversity Champions.
Private Courses
Private courses are delivered for one organisation at your premises, chosen venue or online. This can be a helpful option if you want to build a group of Neurodiversity Champions who can support inclusion across your workplace, service or team.
The Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop is available for groups of up to 16 learners .
Individual Rate
Group Rate
Is this the right course for your organisation?
The Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop is a strong option if you want to build internal confidence and support a more neuroinclusive culture.
It may be particularly useful if you want to:
- Develop Neurodiversity Champions within your organisation
- Move beyond awareness into practical inclusion
- Help staff understand neurodivergent experiences at work
- Support clearer communication across teams
- Build more sensory-aware working environments
- Encourage reasonable adjustments and supportive conversations
- Reduce assumptions, misunderstanding and low morale
- Strengthen your wider wellbeing, inclusion or diversity strategy
This workshop works well after the Neurodiversity: Aware Webinar and can form part of a wider neurodiversity training pathway.
If you are unsure whether the Champion Workshop is the right fit, get in touch with us and we can discuss the most suitable training for you and your team.
Enquire about the Neurodiversity: Champion Workshop
If you’re looking for a practical neurodiversity workshop for your team or organisation, we would be happy to help.
Get in touch to discuss public course options, private delivery or the most suitable neurodiversity training pathway for your workplace.
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