Yesterday I went to the DANDA 'being yourself' Conference it was very inspiring. Channel 4 were filiming parts of it for thier programe on Autism Rights.
During Eleanor Ma Becknner's plenary session a ND motivational speaker who talked about Postively managing your ND/Dyslexia. She used the icebreaker pairing us up to idea storm outragously creative things we could do with a paperclip. A woman in her mid 20s- early 30s whom was sat in the front row oblivious to the camera took Elenor at her word and blurted out that the paper clip could be used to stimulate a female part of her anatomy.
I found Elanor's talk very inspiring and bought her relaxation CD managing your dyslexia with confidence. Although my self confidence has dramatically improved since the days I worked at the Day Centre from Hell it still needs working on. Its early days yet to decide if it has worked but it did help me to sleep better.
At the conferenceI facilitated 2 very sucessful workshops sharing experiences of living with ND
My first session was filmed by Channel 4 the group were very reponsive and being an oportunist and premotor of self advocacy for other NDs I used my questioning technique which I had perfected on the PGCE Work Based experience, to the delegates full advantage. I asked the my ND Brothers and Sisters what mesegae they would like to give to the general public on how they could be more inclusive and understanding about Nuerodiversity. There was no stopping them. Im not sure if It will go on TV as some went happy about being on TV but a few signed the consent form for a princely fee of £1 for permission to be used for channel 4 TV programme.
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