PRACTICAL TRAINING ON NEURODIVERGENCE
Effective training on divergent thinking
We provide neurodiversity-affirming training, supervision and consultation grounded in specialist expertise. From introductory understanding to advanced professional practice, we match the depth to the audience and turn knowledge into clear, practical approaches people can use with confidence in their own setting.
TRAINING AT THE RIGHT DEPTH
Targeted types and levels of training & support
Professionals & services
Supervision, consultation and professional development for people working directly with neurodivergent clients.
Workplaces & organisations
Training that helps teams, managers and organisational leaders turn understanding into better everyday practice.
Activity providers
Practical learning for coaches, instructors, teachers and facilitators who want more people to participate and belong.
From foundations to specialist support
Foundation
An accessible introduction that builds shared understanding, useful language and recognition of common barriers and enablers. Introductory sessions may focus on understanding neurodivergence, autism, ADHD, communication differences, sensory needs, executive function, masking and common barriers.
Applied
Training shaped around a particular role or setting, with practical approaches participants can use in everyday situations.
Specialist
Advanced professional development, supervision and consultation for people who need deeper knowledge, reasoning or practice-level skills.
FOR PROFESSIONALS & SERVICES
Tailored support for professionals
Divergence offers supervision and consultation for professionals who work with neurodivergent people but do not necessarily specialise in neurodivergence.
This may include psychologists, counsellors, therapists, support workers, educators, health professionals and others who want to strengthen their understanding of autism, ADHD and overlapping neurodevelopmental profiles.
Supervision can support case formulation, assessment considerations, therapeutic approach, communication style, masking, sensory needs, executive-function demands, family and whānau context, and the practical realities of working in a neurodiversity-affirming way.
More advanced training can be tailored for clinicians, medical practitioners, psychologists, educators and other professionals who need deeper knowledge or practice-level skills. This may include assessment, support planning, clinical reasoning, differential considerations, co-occurring needs, and practical approaches to working with neurodivergent clients.
FOR WORKPLACES & ORGANISATIONS
Building organisational support
Divergence works with companies and organisations that want to improve access, understanding and support for neurodivergent people.
We provide practical training for people who may have neurodivergent participants in their groups. The aim is not to turn every provider into a specialist. The aim is to give them the understanding and tools they need to make participation easier, safer and more sustainable.
This can include adapting communication, giving clearer instructions, managing transitions, reducing unnecessary sensory load, understanding behaviour as communication, supporting different processing speeds, planning for predictable structure, and knowing when extra support may be needed.
Train-the-trainer models can create high impact at relatively low cost. When a provider, coach, teacher or facilitator understands neurodivergent participation better, that knowledge can benefit many people over time.
FOR ACTIVITY PROVIDERS
Practical coaching for group leaders & coaches
We provide practical training for people who may have neurodivergent participants in their groups.
The aim is not to turn every provider into a specialist. The aim is to give them the understanding and tools they need to make participation easier, safer and more sustainable.
This can include adapting communication, giving clearer instructions, managing transitions, reducing unnecessary sensory load, understanding behaviour as communication, supporting different processing speeds, planning for predictable structure, and knowing when extra support may be needed.
These simple models can create high impact at relatively low cost. When a provider, coach, teacher or facilitator understands neurodivergent participation better, that knowledge can benefit many people over time.
Our approach
All Divergence training is grounded in evidence, professional experience and lived experience of neurodivergence.
We take a practical, affirming approach. This means recognising strengths and differences while also being honest about support needs, stress points and barriers to participation.
Our work is designed to be useful. Participants should leave with clearer understanding, better language, practical tools and a stronger sense of what they can change in their own setting.
