An interactive and immersive communication course aimed at increasing your understanding about neurodiversity in the workplace. This may be as a manager or as a colleague, as you seek to explore how your interpersonal style affects others and how to communicate most effectively with others who have a different neurotype to you.

This workshop is open to staff from all health boards.

Date of course to be confirmed – please click the book now button to be added to our waiting list for upcoming dates

Course Overview

This workshop offers foundational understanding of how our different neurotypes affect the way we work.It is a chance to reflect on how your own thinking and interpersonal style interacts with the style of others.It will help generate skills and confidence to communicate effectively with someone who has (or may have) a different neurotype to you.Participants will work in a small peer group and address communication challenges chosen from their own clinical practice, management, team and teaching roles.

Learning Outcomes

EC4H courses help you have difficult conversations with more confidence and skill, improving the impact you have on others, and your own emotional resilience and job satisfaction.

Objectives of the Communication Training Course:

Enhance Awareness and Understanding of Neurodiversity

• Provide participants with a foundational understanding of neurodivergence, including conditions such as autism, ADHD and others.
• Challenge common misconceptions about neurodiversity.

Develop Empathy and Inclusive Communication Skills

• Enhance empathy by exploring the lived experiences of neurodivergent people.
• Promote inclusive communication techniques that respect different processing and interaction styles.

Recognize and Adapt to Diverse Communication Needs

• Adopt strategies to identify and support varying verbal and non-verbal communication preferences.
• Encourage flexibility in communication methods

Promote Psychological Safety and Respect

• Create inclusive environments where neurodivergent individuals feel safe and respected to express themselves.
• Address unconscious bias

Improve Collaboration and Team Dynamics

• Enhance team performance by recognizing and leveraging the strengths neurodivergent individuals bring.
• Provide tools for resolving misunderstandings and fostering productive collaboration.

This communication course will not only increase your emotional resilience but also your job satisfaction.

Tutor Team

Dr Ellie Caldwell

EC4H Lead Tutor

Dr Ellie Caldwell is a dual-chartered Coaching Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist (HCPC registered) with additional training and expertise in Organisational Psychology. For over a decade Ellie specialised in Clinical Health Psychology - working as an embedded member of NHS multi-disciplinary physical health teams in areas including Oncology, HIV and Sexual Health, and Plastic Surgery. She also spent four years working in (and latterly operating as clinical lead for) a specialist NHS psychology service for health and care staff. Outside of her clinical roles, Ellie has proven track record in providing Organisational Psychology interventions and coaching (executive, leadership, wellbeing and performance, and team-focused) for organisations in the public and private sectors. With a strong background in co-designing and delivering training, Ellie has been a tutor for EC4H for many years and has helped to innovate our approach to training by integrating psychological models and methods - equipping trainees with a strong theoretical foundation to their communication approach.