Wired Differently, Understood Together. Creating neuroinclusive environments.

September 22nd 2026

Come and join this fascinating interactive session with author Joan van den Brink to raise awareness of how our beliefs and assumptions may result in practices that are neuroexclusive rather than neuroinclusive.

This event is open to All

In any setting there are individuals whom we find difficult for a variety of reasons. These include:

The line manager who makes demands but is not precise about what they require.
The team member who is always late for meetings or misses deadlines.
The colleague who consistently picks holes in an argument or points out that a planwon’t work.
The line manager who insists on team members being in the office 3 days per week. When we encounter these or similar situations we make assumptions about the other person and why they are behaving in this way. We rarely stop to think about a deeper meaning for the relationship challenges we experience.

Joan is the author of, ‘Wired Differently, Understood Together.'

She will share her story, what she has learnt about neurodivergence and bust some stereotypes about familiar neurotypes.

Joan will invite you to reflect on your beliefs and assumptions about your colleagues in breakout groups and consider whether what you are experiencing is due to differences in wiring.

She will offer some suggestions of what you can do to start the process of generating more neuroinclusion.