Mind Matters

30/12/2025

🌟 Thrive: Neurodiversity in the Workplace Aware Webinar

Are you ready to shift the narrative from deficit to strength?

Join us for our Thrive: Neurodiversity in the Workplace Aware, a transformative webinar designed to raise awareness, equip professionals, leaders, and changemakers with the insight and empathy, to foster truly inclusive workplaces.

🧠 What to Expect
• Understand neurodiversity through a strengths-based lens
• Explore the lived experiences of Autistic and neurodivergent individuals
• Learn how to create psychologically safe, inclusive environments

🎯 Who Should Attend
HR professionals, line managers, MHFAiders, DSLs, DEI leads, and anyone committed to building neuroinclusive cultures.

💬 “This webinar doesn’t just raise awareness—it sparks transformation.”
Led by Jane McNeice, Autistic advocate, author, and Founder of Mind Matters, this session blends lived experience, professional insight, and creative warmth to challenge assumptions and inspire action.

📅 Upcoming Dates: https://www.mindmatterstraining.co.uk/training-calendar/online-training-course-calendar/

Let’s Thrive!

29/12/2025

Fully funded mental health and neurodiversity training for Barnsley SMEs

Mind Matters is delighted to be working in partnership with Barnsley Council, to deliver fully funded training for managers and employees in mental health, neurodiversity, and wellbeing, free of charge to based in , South Yorkshire.

Mental Health Training:
The i-act programme is one of the UK’s leading evidence-based and accredited mental health and wellbeing programmes for understanding and managing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

I-ACT thought about the different training needs of different workplace roles and developed complimentary courses for both managers and for employees/front-line workers:

i-act Course for Managers (online and in-person options available)
i-act Course for Employees/Front-line Workers (online and in-person options available)

Neurodiversity training:
Mind Matters will be delivering the following neurodiversity training, designed to increase your understanding of neurodivergence and help you learn how to support neurodivergent individuals and unlock their potential:

Thrive Neurodiversity in the workplace aware webinar – 1.5 hour webinar

Thrive Neurodiversity in the Workplace for Managers Workshop

If you would like to access places for your business, further details can be found here https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/services/business-information/health-and-safety-at-work/be-well-work-employee-health-and-wellbeing/

29/12/2025

What learning will you be taking from 2025 to benefit your future self?

2025 has been a tough year in so many areas of my life. It’s been a year of learning and shedding. Not unexpected given it was the year of the Wood Snake!

It’s too easy to focus on successes, or indeed the not so successful parts of my year (there have been many), but I am reflecting mostly on what I’ve learned from this, and what I’m taking forward…

😥Boundaries are healthy and essential, but continually having to defend them is exhausting
⏰Time poverty reduces empathy in some of the most empathic people
🏆It won’t always be your time, this one belongs to someone else, and that is okay
📚Learning and vision have the power to keep me going in the face of adversity 🚀
✨Hope is always there, you just need to keep looking.

27/12/2025

Thrive offers a robust and thoughtful approach to supporting neurodiversity in the workplace, aiming to shift the narrative from mere awareness to genuine inclusion and empowerment. https://www.mindmatterstraining.co.uk/thrive-neurodiversity-in-the-workplace-training/

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