⏰ 18:00 - 21:30 (CET) 

💬 English

✨ In-Person Event

📍 Location: Espace Dickens - Salle 2, Avenue Charles Dickens 4, 1006 Lausanne.

🚀 CCEU's:  Core Competency 1.5 Unit | Development 1 Unit

This engaging and interactive workshop, focused on a coaching-centered approach, aims to enhance understanding of neurodiversity while building confidence and empathy among coaches. Participating in interactive and playful activities will teach attendees about various cognitive differences, including traits associated with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other unique learning styles.

Coaches will gain a foundational understanding of neurodiversity and learn when and how to refer clients to therapists or specialised coaches. The goal is to help create a more inclusive coaching environment for all clients. This session combines engaging learning, empathy-building exercises, and hands-on practice to help coaches foster a more open, curious, and inclusive practice that embraces and celebrates their clients' strengths and unique perspectives.

1. Welcome and Icebreaker (10 minutes)

• Brief intro of facilitator
• Icebreaker
• Explain workshop objectives and agenda.
  
  

2. Foundational Concepts (20 minutes)

• Engaging short video explaining key terms and the neurodiversity paradigm: strengths-based vs. deficit-based.
• Why neurodiversity matters in coaching: inclusivity, empathy, and equity in line with ICF Values
  
  

3. Understanding Neurodiversity in Practice (45 minutes)

• Interactive Case Study
• Divide into small groups, each with a case study
• How might you recognise that neurodivergence might be an issue?
• What strengths and challenges might this client bring to coaching?
• Reconvene for group sharing and facilitator feedback.
• Group & Facilitator Reflection - Key Coaching Considerations
• Issues to include communication styles, sensory preferences, executive function challenges, avoiding biases, strengths-focused coaching, adjusting your coaching style
  
  

4. Strategies for Neuro-inclusive Coaching (45 minutes)

• Roleplay Activity
• Participants pair up for brief roleplay exercises
• One plays a client, the coach using a simple tool/approach
• Switch roles
• Group & Facilitator Feedback – Neuro-inclusive strategies and techniques
• Points from use of different tools/techniques likely to come up include sensory-friendly space; use of visual aids, mind maps or summaries for better understanding; chunking tasks; self-advocacy and collaboration;
• Asking what works best for them etc
  
  

5. Wrap-Up and Q&A (30 minutes)

• Reflection
• Closing Q&A
• Handout provided with resources from the workshop, recommended reading, and local/international resources.

Learning objectives

• Understand key neurodiversity concepts in society, including the spectrum of neurodivergent traits, including ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and dyspraxia, as well as high potential and giftedness
• Develop empathy for neurodivergent experiences through hands-on exercises and practice
• Gain some practical neuro-inclusive coaching tools to help support clients with varied needs and preferences.
• Recognise when a client may benefit from a referral to a therapist or more specialised neurodiversity coaching support.
• Build confidence in creating a more inclusive coaching environment that welcomes and celebrates thinking differences and strengths.

Location: Espace Dickens - Salle 2, Avenue Charles Dickens 4, 1006 Lausanne.