Offering high quality, lived-experience, practitioner and evidence-led training around autism as a specialism and autism in the context of other neurodivergent conditions. Our CPD-accredited courses empower organisations to make affirming changes so that autistic and neurodivergent people can thrive.
Knowing how to effectively support an autistic and neurodiverse community of customers, clients, service users and employees is becoming increasingly pertinent, not only because of the growing number of people becoming aware of their status as autistic and neurodivergent people, but also because of the hidden population who continue to experience barriers in all aspects of life without the awareness, or ability, to advocate for themselves.
We will empower your staff with our training, to make simple and practical changes that will create a lasting and positive impact within your organisation, on a local and personal level. We can work with you to help you achieve your culture, policy and practice change on an organisation-wide scale.
Aûtentic is unique, in that it is autistic-led by Catherine Leggett, combining direct lived experience with over a decade of time-served practitioner experience working for the UK's leading autism charities, and balanced with robust, progressive academic research into best-practice. We understand employers and service providers, and the challenges they face, and we are embedded within the communities that we advocate for and understand what they need.
Our accredited courses are 3 hours in duration and can be delivered in-house, either virtually or on-site as preferred, or offered on a fixed schedule open-access basis.
Accredited Activities:
3 Hour – Neurodivergent-Affiriming Communication, Language and Spaces
3 Hour – Autism for Line Managers
3 Hour – Autism for HR Managers
3 Hour – Autism for Careers Advisors and Into-Work Support Professionals
Who Should Attend:
Neurodivergent-affirming communication, language and spaces – This course has been designed for professionals and individuals providing services for the public and does contain some workplace-specific content. No previous knowledge or training is required, however, attendees should have a good basic understanding of what neurodivergence is. This course aims to develop a strong understanding of how to support undiagnosed, undisclosed, disclosed or self-recognising autistic and neurodivergent individuals. You will gain an understanding of how to support in a neurodivergent-affirming way and how to motivate your team to engage with neurodivergent-affirming changes to practice and processes. (https://www.autentic.uk/course-description-neurodivergent-affirming-communication-language-and-spaces)
Autism for HR managers – This course aims to develop a strong understanding of how to support undiagnosed, undisclosed, disclosed or self-recognising autistic employees, their colleagues and line managers. You will gain an understanding of how to support in an autism-affirming way and how to motivate your team to engage with autism-affirming changes to practice and processes. This course has been designed for HR managers, directly supporting or indirectly supporting an autistic employee, line manager or colleague of an autistic employee or not. No previous knowledge or training is required, however, attendees should have a good basic understanding of what autism is. (https://www.autentic.uk/course-description-autism-for-hr-managers)
Autism for careers and into-work support professionals – This course aims to develop a strong understanding of how to support undiagnosed, undisclosed, disclosed or self-recognising autistic job seekers throughout the entire job-seeking, careers development and into-work process. You will gain an understanding of how to support in an autism-affirming way and how to motivate your team to engage with autism-affirming changes to practice and processes. This course has been designed for professionals supporting autistic job seekers as well as careers professionals and into-work professionals, whether they are directly supporting or indirectly supporting an autistic candidate, or not. No previous knowledge or training is required, however, attendees should have a good basic understanding of what autism is. (https://www.autentic.uk/course-description-autism-for-careers-and-into-work-support-professionals)
Autism for line managers – This course aims to develop a strong understanding of how to support undiagnosed, undisclosed, disclosed or self-recognising autistic line reports. You will gain an understanding of how to support in an autism-affirming way and how to motivate your team to engage with autism-affirming changes to practice and processes. This course has been designed for line managers, directly supporting or indirectly supporting an autistic employee or not. No previous knowledge or training is required, however, attendees should have a good basic understanding of what autism is. (https://www.autentic.uk/course-description-autism-for-line-managers)
Autism for recruiters – This course aims to develop a strong understanding of how to support undiagnosed, undisclosed, disclosed or self-recognising autistic candidates throughout the entire recruitment process. You will gain an understanding of how to support in an autism-affirming way and how to motivate your team to engage with autism-affirming changes to practice and processes. This course has been designed for recruiters, directly supporting or indirectly supporting an autistic candidate or not. No previous knowledge or training is required, however, attendees should have a good basic understanding of what autism is. (https://www.autentic.uk/course-description-autism-for-recruiters)
