Narrative / Background
- Desire to build an organisation set up to help families. Born from experience with Arthur with GOSH and being told to use a particular behavioural strategy but feeling like it wasn’t right or not sure how to challenge professional instruction.
- Feeling like there is a need, both in parenting community, but also in professional world – need for upskilling.
- Neurodivergent parents and professionals. Diversity. Important that a story is told which offers a voice for under-represented views.
- Gap for people to access resources, which support a move towards a cultural change around parenting, in particular around parenting children with PDA? Neurodivergent?… Autistic community.
- Organisation model which is actively anti-racist, intersectional – important that these ideals are baked into the organisation. Aware that society and our parenting cultural background is deeply entrenched with a Euro-centric experience. Desire to widen learning and better understand alternative cultural views. Aspire to recognise and dismantle privilege.
- What to Neurodivergent kids need? Specialism around what do PDA kids need. But this also represents a good model for what ALL kids need.
Vision Statement
Setting kids up through good communication and relationships to succeed.
Mission Statement
Rediscover, unlearning, celebrating / facilitating resistance
Changemakers
Neurodivergent / neurodiversity affirming
Celebrating
Courage
Co-creating a neuroaffirmative society, towards radical wellbeing
To build resilient and community which courage to challenge – – – radical wellbeing.
Radical (acceptance)
Challenge
Community
