Strength in Difference: Understanding Neurodiversity Through a Strengths Lens

On-Demand Recording + Full Resource Bundle

Create a calmer, clearer, kinder library where every type of thinker can thrive.

If you’ve ever wondered why some systems feel overwhelming, why certain staff struggle with the way tasks are set up, or how to support neurodivergent colleagues and users with confidence and compassion, this is the session that changes everything.

Strength in Difference is your practical introduction to neurodiversity in libraries, taught through a strengths-led, deeply human lens. This on-demand training gives you the exact tools, frameworks, and real-world examples you need to transform your workplace into one that genuinely supports clarity, wellbeing, and inclusion.

Whether you're a manager, team leader, frontline staff member, educator, or simply someone who values kindness and equitable practice, this recording gives you everything you need to start making meaningful change immediately.

What You’ll Learn

✔ Understand neurodiversity in a real-world library context

Learn how ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, APD, PDA, RSD, anxiety masking, and strong sense of justice show up in everyday work—and the strengths inside each profile.

✔ Spot cognitive, sensory, emotional, and memory load

Discover where processes create overwhelm (and how to fix it with simple adjustments).

✔ Redesign work for clarity and predictability

You’ll learn how to reduce confusion, hidden rules, and inconsistent expectations across teaching, enquiry work, meetings, communication, and service points.

✔ Reframe “difficult” behaviour into “mis-designed” systems

A powerful mindset shift that instantly improves culture, trust, and psychological safety.

✔ Build a more equitable, neuroinclusive team culture

Practical, strengths-led ways to communicate, plan, support, and collaborate.

✔ Apply Universal Design everywhere

From signage to emails, service instructions to meetings—you’ll see how to make your environment easier for everyone, not just neurodivergent colleagues and users.

What’s Included

When you buy Strength in Difference, you get instant access to:

Full on-demand recording

With clear, practical explanations, real examples, and reflective insights.

Slide deck (PDF)

The complete presentation you can revisit anytime.

Downloadable Toolkits and Handouts

Everything used in the live session, including:

Neurodiversity Through a Strengths Lens – Strength Profiles
A User Guide to You at Work
Reframing Deficit Language Toolkit
Executive Function in Library Work – 11 Examples
Cognitive Load Checklist
All session handouts and examples

These tools alone are worth the full price of the training.

Practical scenarios and redesign exercises

See how small changes create huge shifts in clarity, accessibility, and capacity.

Who This Is For

This session is perfect for:

Library managers and team leaders
Line managers and supervisors
Teaching & learning librarians
Frontline and enquiry staff
Student experience teams
Anyone who wants to support neurodivergent colleagues and users with confidence
Anyone who wants a calmer, more predictable, more human workplace

No prior knowledge needed. No jargon. No overwhelming theory, just practical kindness.

Why It Matters

Libraries are full of brilliant, diverse thinkers. But many systems were designed for only one type of brain.

Strength in Difference helps you redesign your environment so more people can:

focus
communicate comfortably
contribute confidently
feel safe
feel valued
succeed without masking or burnout

This is inclusion in action—simple, human, effective.

Next Step in the Series

If you enjoy this session (and you will), make sure to join:

Strengths in Practice: Designing Neuroinclusive Services & Spaces

Transform everything from signage and sensory design to workflows and communication pathways.

The rest of the series will be announced soon.

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