Divergent Design Series

A series of four online workshops exploring the Divergent Design framework, a set of interrelated concepts and principles created by Marta Rose that seem helpful in giving neurodivergent people insights and tools for designing lives that actually work for us.

These workshops will be useful to you as standalone workshops; you can go to any one without having gone to the others, and it should make sense and be helpful. However, if you can come to all four, you will see how they build and loop back on each other in interconnected and transformative ways.

Please bring something to record/write with during the session, as well as something to doodle or draw with. If there is interest, we will hold an additional peer support session on 8th July to consider how we might continue to share experiences and support each other.

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Divergent Design Series: Disrupting Shame
May 20
Divergent Design Series: Disrupting Shame

In this workshop we will examine the ways that the compulsory executive functioning paradigm has twisted our very existence as neurodivergent people from “difference” into “disorder,” shamed us for our differences, and then blamed us for the dysfunction that shame has caused.

Divergent Design Series: Mise en Place: Getting Started is the Hardest Part
Jun 17
Divergent Design Series: Mise en Place: Getting Started is the Hardest Part

There are a million hacks out there that promise to offer the silver bullet for all our creative problems, and this workshop is … Not That. There really are no magic solutions to our struggles, but Mise en Place—a concept borrowed from the culinary world—is both a holistic practice and a quick strategy that can be helpful if we take it to heart and keep coming back to it.