This is a Social Work Week 2025 event
Using their own lived experience as neurodivergent social workers, Florence and Fiona will explore neurodivergent identity and the neurodivergent movement.
Join this session to:
- explore different neurotypes – and importantly, how they may overlap
- consider some of the strengths and challenges that might be encountered and what this means for social workers’ identity inside and outside of social work
- think about neurodivergence, intersectionality and double discrimination
- find out how executive functioning can have an impact on social work practice
- consider why people ‘mask’ and how this affects well-being, support and self-advocacy
- learn about a supervision model co-produced with neurodivergent social work students, to help facilitate conversations around needs and support.
Speakers
- Florence Smith, social worker and practice educator, and director of Neuro Inclusive Solutions LTD
- Fiona McDonald, independent workplace well-being consultant and practice educator