Workshop: Parenting at the edges: new narratives and community for neurodivergent parents
For neurodivergent parents - often raising neurodivergent kids - the "normal" parenting scripts may feel like they just don't fit. Across school, family life, socializing, holidays, and everyday routines, you may feel like you're "getting it wrong" or not measuring up to rules others follow seamlessly. This can come with judgment and exclusion, at exactly the time when support and community are most needed.
This workshop will bring us together in solidarity at the edges. Through gentle experiential exercises, small-group conversations, and shared reflection, we'll examine the parenting rules that exclude us and begin creating our own more spacious, colorful scripts that include us. Together, we'll explore what it means to build community spaces that nourish, support, and strengthen our unique family worlds.
This space will be neuro-affirming and inclusive, with options to participate in ways that feel safest for you (sharing in chat, listening quietly, camera on or off, speaking in small groups).
You’ll leave with
Knowledge of the situations that feel especially hard, and the unspoken "rules" and expectations shaping them
Visibility of your own preferred responses that center you and your child, plus simple ways to communicate these to others (family, school, professionals)
Connection with your own values and ideas about parenting, including space to reflect on your childhood experiences and the paths you're choosing now as an adult
Solidarity and community with others navigating similar edges in parenting
Opportunity to stay connected with the group/community afterwards
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
2-hour online Zoom workshop with closed captions provided.
Your choice how to participate:
Cameras optional
No expectation to share or speak
Names visible or not (your choice)
Participate via chat only if preferred
Use your own language/metaphors - no "correct" way
Neurodiversity-affirming design:
Structure provided + flexibility for your needs
Breaks built in
Stimming/moving encouraged
Recording available for ticket holders who want to return to the session
Support available if you feel overwhelmed during/after.
Who this is NOT for: Not a crisis service or individual therapy replacement (though it can sit alongside therapy).
Who it’s for
Neurodivergent parents and caregivers (diagnosed, self-identified, questioning)
Parents of neurodivergent children, who may be neurodivergent themselves or co-parenting with a neurodivergent person.
Facilitation, credentials and feedback
The workshop will be led by Dr Fran Lassman, a clinical psychologist specialising in narrative therapy with over 15 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.”
What people said about our Rewriting Scripts event
"I felt lighter and more free afterwards, thank you."
"This workshop was fantastic! Still processing it! (In a good way 🙃)"
"It's so nice being in this little… this group today...It's very validating and healing."
"Thank you for this helpful inspiration and all the brave and honest sharing!""Thanks for organising this, it was very helpful. I feel less alone."
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