Day 2 deepens understanding and focuses on application across the lifespan and professional systems.

Participants will explore:

• Self-reflection, neurotype mapping, and environmental fit
• Executive function in depth, including prefrontal cortex development and brain maturation
• Neurodiversity across the lifespan, including late identification and masking
• Environmental and social intensifiers impacting wellbeing and behaviour
• Hormones, gender, and neurodiversity across women’s and men’s experiences
• Culture, dopamine, motivation, and behaviour, including healthy vs unhealthy dopamine pathways
• Identity integration, reflective writing, and applied professional insight

The full detailed learning schedule is included in the attached programme overview.

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• Individuality, neurotypes, and biological diversity
• Genetics, epigenetics, prenatal and postnatal environments, and early attachment in brain development
• Medical and social models of disability and the social construction of difference
• The history and purpose of the DSM, including diagnostic change and its implications for neurodivergent people
• Neurodiversity as natural variation using biodiversity analogies
• Executive function and an overview of ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and related neurotypes
• Social norms, systemic barriers, strengths and challenges across neurotypes
• Guided reflection to integrate learning into professional contexts