Neurodiversity in the Workplace | The STILL Method
Half-Day Workshop

Neurodiversity
in the
Workplace.

A practical, nervous system-led workshop for HR leads and line managers. Built to change what your people do on Monday morning, not just what they know.

Duration 3.5 hours
Group size Up to 20
Delivery In-house
CPD Certificates available
1 in 5 People in the UK workforce are neurodivergent. Most have never been asked what would help.
72% Of neurodivergent employees say their workplace does not understand their needs.
£0 Cost of most of the practical adjustments your managers will leave with.
Delivered by
IPHM Accredited Training Provider ACCPH Accredited Training Provider 20+ Years Nervous System Practice Featured in The Guardian and BBC
Why this workshop exists

Most neurodiversity training starts with a list
of labels.

That is a useful starting point. But it is not where understanding begins.

Understanding begins with this: every neurodivergent behaviour that disrupts a team meeting, misses a deadline, or creates friction has a nervous system explanation. That is not an excuse. It is a doorway.

When managers understand what is happening underneath the behaviour, they stop reacting. They start responding. This workshop gives them the tools to do exactly that.

The STILL Method was developed by Stuart Thompson, a social worker and anxiety specialist with over 20 years of practice. Stuart has brittle bone disease, uses a wheelchair, and has experienced significant hearing loss. He knows what it costs to navigate a world that was not built for your nervous system.

That is not background detail. It is the reason this workshop does not feel like a corporate training course.

It was recognised as one of the UK's leading approaches to anxiety and nervous system work by The Guardian and the BBC, and is delivered by an IPHM and ACCPH accredited training provider.

What makes this different

Not awareness.
Understanding.

Not this A list of conditions and what to watch for This A nervous system explanation for the behaviours your managers are already seeing.
Not this Advice that requires HR sign-off to act on This Practical adjustments every manager can make this week. Most cost nothing.
Not this Training that waits for a disclosure to begin This A framework that works whether or not anyone has been diagnosed. Because most have not.
Learning outcomes

What your managers will be able to do
by the end.

Every outcome is practical. Every one is applicable without a policy change, a budget request, or a formal diagnosis in the room.

  • Describe the most common neurodivergent profiles in a workplace context, including ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia
  • Explain how the nervous system underpins neurodivergent behaviour at work
  • Identify the difference between a performance issue and a nervous system response
  • Apply practical adjustments to how they communicate, structure tasks, and run meetings
  • Use person-first and identity-first language appropriately and without assumption
  • Create a psychologically safer environment without needing a formal diagnosis to begin
Session plan

3.5 hours.
Eight sessions.

0:00 – 0:20
Welcome and Framing Why this workshop exists. What it is not. Ground rules and group agreements.
Facilitated discussion
0:20 – 0:50
Understanding Neurodivergent Profiles ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia. What each profile means at work.
Input with Q&A
0:50 – 1:20
The Nervous System at Work Threat detection, sensory processing, and executive function. Why neurodivergent brains respond differently to deadlines, noise, ambiguity, and change.
Input and reflection
1:20 – 1:35
Break
1:35 – 2:15
Behaviour or Nervous System Response? Case studies. Small group work. Reframing what managers often misread as attitude, laziness, or disengagement.
Small group case studies
2:15 – 3:00
Practical Adjustments Communication, task structure, meetings, feedback, sensory environment. What changes and why. What costs nothing.
Practical tools workshop
3:00 – 3:20
The STILL Method in Practice Applying Stop, Talk, Imagine, Listen, Learn to real scenarios from the room.
Scenario practice
3:20 – 3:30
Close and Commitments Each participant leaves with one specific change they will make this week, written down in the session.
Individual reflection
Profiles covered

Five profiles.
All workplace-relevant.

This is not a clinical lecture. Each profile is covered in functional terms: what it looks like at work, what it does not mean, and what managers can do differently.

A ADHD

Attention regulation, time blindness, hyperfocus, impulsivity, and the myth of laziness.

Au Autism

Sensory processing, social communication differences, pattern thinking, and the performance tax of masking.

Dy Dyslexia

Processing written information, working memory, and the verbal strength that written tasks do not capture.

Dp Dyspraxia

Motor coordination, spatial awareness, organisation of thought, and the energy cost of tasks others do automatically.

Dc Dyscalculia

Numerical processing, sequencing, and the impact on reporting, budgets, and data-heavy roles.

What participants take away

They leave with tools.
Not just awareness.

Every participant leaves with something tangible. Not a slide deck they will never open. A reference card they will keep. A commitment they have written in the room.

01 Practical Adjustments Reference Card — a one-page printed tool covering communication, meetings, task structure, feedback, and environment.
02 A personal commitment — one specific change each participant will make this week, written down before they leave the room.
03 One month's access to The STILL Method post-workshop resource hub for follow-up tools and reading.
04 Certificate of attendance for CPD records, available on request.

Ready to book this
for your team?

Tell us your organisation size, location, and any specific context about your team. We will come back to you within one working day with availability and pricing.

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