Protecting Neurodivergent Nervous Systems:

Interpersonal Skill-Building Workshop

Workshop Syllabus

Download this workshop explanation for your records and for more detailed information about the workshop.

Workshop Overview

  • Provider: Delta
  • Level: Two
  • Pre-Study: 2.5 hours
  • Practice: 3.5 hours
  • Evaluation: Self-evaluation criteria provided

Schedule of Activities

  • Self-Study Begins: Aug.12/2025  
  • Optional Virtual Session:
    Aug.26/2025 (10:30 - 2:30 MDT/ UTC-6)
  • Deadline to Complete: Aug.11/2026  

Certification

The workshop participation certificate will be issued after a brief post-learning survey is completed.

Experience Description

This workshop equips professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to prioritize sensory, cognitive, psychological, and nervous system safety for neurodivergent employees.

Participants will explore how neurodivergent nervous systems process workplace environments differently and the unique risks they face due to traditional workplace structures and practices. It emphasizes proactive, trauma-aware approaches to creating safer and more inclusive work environments.

Through simulations, case studies, and collaborative exercises, participants will learn to identify sensory, psychosocial, and cognitive risks, design universal safety strategies, and engage individuals in collaborative safety planning.

They will learn to design safer workplace policies and spaces.

Learning Outcomes

You will be able to...
  • Identify workplace risks that disproportionately impact neurodivergent nervous systems, including sensory, cognitive, and psychosocial hazards.
  • Apply trauma-aware safety practices to create supportive environments for neurodivergent individuals.
  • Develop inclusive risk mitigation strategies that prioritize neurodiversity and psychological safety.
  • Design workplace environments and policies using universal design principles to reduce risks and foster neurodivergent wellbeing.
  • Collaborate with neurodivergent individuals to create personalized and organizational safety plans.
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Meet the Lead instructor

Crystal Bowen

Email
Bowen@CarpenterCrystal.com
Crystal, founder of Delta Learning Solutions and The HoD, brings invaluable expertise and a unique perspective as an ADHD and Autistic individual and a gifted learning specialist with over 15 years of experience in inclusive design and neurodiversity safety.

She believes in a society where all individuals have equitable opportunity to actualize their potential when we empower people potential by design with innovative and inclusive human solutions together.
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Meet the Support Instructor

To Be Determined

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Meet the Moderator

Britt Dorland (ADRIA)

Email
Membership@ADRalberta.com
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