Workshop: Rewriting our scripts after a neurodivergence discovery
An identification of neurodivergence can offer a powerful new lens for understanding aspects of your life, relationships and identity that dominant social scripts have overlooked or misrepresented. This "Rewriting Scripts" workshop offers space to consider how you want to become the narrator- and active protagonist- of life stories that have previously been written for you – or that did not cast you at all. Through experiential exercises, prompts and gentle group discussion, we will explore the stories you've been given (and perhaps internalised) that don't serve you; the preferred stories that matter to you; the characters you wish to include in these preferred stories and; the contexts of time and space in which you want to tell your stories. We will also consider how these stories might shape our futures and the essential element of any story: “what next?”
You’ll leave with
By the end of the workshop, we hope you will:
Have greater awareness of the dominant discourses and ideas that have been shaping your identity stories in ways that no longer serve you.
Have access to language, tools and ideas to describe your stories (past, present and future), identities and futures in ways that feel important and meaningful to you.
Have some new ideas for being an active protagonist in your life.
Access the experience, knowledges and sense of solidarity with other late‑identified neurodivergent adults.
Contribute (if you wish) to a “collective document” that collates shared experiences, questions and ideas from the group, which can continue to be developed after the session with participants’ consent.
How this workshop is different
This workshop is informed by narrative therapy ideas and principles, centering collaboration, agency and our shared humanness. In narrative therapy, problems are not viewed as individual defects or internal flaws, but as shaped by the relationships, contexts and societal expectations we are living within. There will be no pathologising, no “fixing” and no individual formulation of you as a problem; instead, we will be co‑creating ideas and possible pathways together, in ways that honour neurodiversity and complexity.
Safety, accessibility and format
1.5‑hour online workshop.
Cameras optional; no forced sharing; you are welcome to participate via chat only.
You are invited to use your own language, metaphors or terms to describe your experience; there is no “correct” way to speak about yourself here.
This is a neurodiversity‑affirming, non‑pathologising space; support options and resources will be available if someone feels overwhelmed during or after the session.
“Who this is not for”: this workshop is not a crisis service and not a replacement for individual therapy, though it may sit alongside it.
Who it’s for
Autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent adults - whether recently or earlier identified, self‑identified, or exploring whether these descriptions fit.
People who want to rethink old stories of being “too much,” “too sensitive,” “difficult,” “broken,” or “not enough,” and explore narratives that feel more accurate and sustaining.
Those who value reflective space, gentle structure and collaborative exploration more than advice‑giving or “tips and tricks.”
Facilitation, credentials and feedback
The workshop will be led by Dr Fran Lassman, a clinical psychologist specialising in narrative therapy with over ten years of experience working with young people, families and adults across NHS and private settings. She co‑founded “a time and space,” a collective of clinical psychologists offering narrative therapy approaches that embrace neurodiversity and collaboration, and has published narrative‑therapy‑informed work alongside autistic clients.
Feedback from one of Fran’s autistic clients, with whom she co‑authored a paper:
“When I’m not treated like something abnormal, broken, in need of fixing then I can start to uncover what I really want and I can challenge ideas and structures in society that really are the problem.”
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