Mindfulness practices can have huge benefits: managing strong emotions, coping with physical pain, increasing focus, becoming more attuned to our bodies, being more present with positive experiences and more. But it also has some risks associated with it, and the ways in which it is usually taught are not often a good fit with neurodivergent brains and bodies. This workshop will…

Many neurodivergent people struggle with procrastination and inertia, and can get stuck in a cycle of forgetting, avoidance, overwhelm, and a build-up of un-done tasks and their consequences, resulting in worse mood and even more procrastination. This workshop will offer tools for understanding inertia and the different forms of procrastination, the specific obstacles to different tasks for different people, and practical techniques for becoming unstuck.

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Until very recently, the diagnostic criteria made it impossible for one person to be diagnosed with both autism and ADHD, but we now know that it's extremely common for them to co-occur. Sometimes the experiences associated with autism and ADHD seem to conspire together and each one amplifies the impact of the other. Sometimes they balance each other out, in ways which can be helpful but can also lead to a "rollercoaster" experience of everyday life. In some ways, they combine to create a unique third thing, AuDHD, which is not exactly like either autism or ADHD…