ND Connect | Neurodivergent mentorship and community

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Neurodivergent? A people leader? 😎 Join us tonight at 8 pm ET for curious conversations and a chance to meet others who "get" it #Neurodiversity #Leadership

Happening today at 12:00 pm ET with 400 people registered! We can't wait for this conversation 🌟

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I wanted to take the time to share a great conversation I had last week with Eliana Bravos about her platform for neurodivergent individuals. ND Connect | Neurodivergent mentorship and community is an incredible platform that simply does what it says, connecting and fostering neurodivergent mentorship and community. Thank you Adrean Meuser from the University of Victoria Students Society for Student with A Disability to include me in the conversation. I really enjoyed the tour of the simple and intuitive navigable platform and enjoyed learning about how lived experience has lead to an innovative and transforming community. Students, staff or alumni that identify as neurodivergent from the University of Victoria, please feel free to connect with me or Eliana directly if you would like to learn more! image description: Canva Cartoon of a person in front of a computer. On the screen an individual with a female appearance is viewable. Above the screen three icons are floating, a globe, a text balloon with three dots and an an information icon. Depicting the power of connecting and information sharing with peers on a global scale. #Inclusion #Neurodivergency #PeerExperience #Mentorship

Excellent article highlighting the immense value autistic peer groups have on your wellbeing and how important they can be….. they can even save lives. I myself realized the value of finding my tribe since I became active on LinkedIn myself and found a community of neurodivergent individuals, many of them late discovered and with similar life experiences😌-It really helped me as did joining online peer mentor groups like ND Connect | Neurodivergent mentorship and community “There is nothing like the feeling of camaraderie after a lifetime of sitting on the sidelines, not quite fitting in, looking like I should know things, but lacking the invisible rulebook to make it possible.” “Support groups are not just a safe space to be with our neurokindred, they also help us reframe our current and previous experiences. This is vital as Maya Angelou says in order to “forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it” “A growing awareness of an Autistic lexicon that confers dignity to experience has facilitated my sense making efforts. Knowing that my individual, frustrated internal silent screams and habitual bewilderment and inexplicable ways of being are not only common they also have names is comfortingly validating.” #autistic #autism #autismawareness #neurodivergent

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🌟 Join us as we learn, connect, and share space with BPD advocate Melanie Goldman. 🔎 What to expect Melanie will start off by sharing a personal narrative about her own journey learning about herself and her needs as an advocate with BPD. We’ll then open it up to a moderated Q&A where you can ask Melanie about her experiences, resources she’d recommend, and more. In the last 20 min, we’ll open up room for a community conversation. This will include a larger group chat space with Melanie, and some smaller breakout rooms with prompts so you can meet other attendees in a supportive community space. See you there! ♿️ Access Notes Please show up in the way that best meets your needs. You’re welcome to keep your camera off, participate in chat, stim, fidget, take breaks, have a snack, leave and come back, show up late, etc. We will have auto-captioning enabled in the Zoom main room. Let us know if there is anything else we can do to support you! 🗒️ How to Join ND Connect members: join via the link in app Non-members: register via Luma: https://lu.ma/jcwfavte 🙋🏻♀️ About Melanie Melanie Goldman (she/her) is a passionate mental health advocate. Using her lived experiences, she advocates with-and-for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Based in Toronto, Canada, Melanie has spent the majority of her life working in the music industry. After being in hospital ten years ago after experiencing mental health challenges, Melanie was diagnosed with BPD. Since then, she decided she wants to use both her music and her Master’s degree in psychology to help others. She went to work researching everything she could about BPD and found helpful supports and community resources. She then took the next step and began directly aiding and sharing resources with communities, gradually coming to understand that her story could help save countless lives. Melanie's work includes being a guest on a number of podcasts from Back From The Borderline to BPD Bravery, and is a cast member of the popular YouTube TV series, The BPD Bunch. Melanie is also a trained peer facilitator and a MA Counseling Psychology practicum student, who is qualified to practice under clinical supervision. Since the general public has a skewed conception of BPD within the mental health system, Melanie has many far-reaching ambitions for the mental health communities and BPD, including the establishment of her own Center for BPD to reduce stigma and help everyone with BPD find light in their lives. Find Melanie on Instagram at https://lnkd.in/euiicdQv #BPD  #Neurodiversity #Community 

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One piece of career advice neurodivergent people don't hear enough is: find work that's good for you, not just work you're good at. As neurodivergent people, so many of us are so used to constantly pushing past our limits to fit neuronormative expectations in school, work, and life. But there's a cost: burnout. I wish in addition to my ability to perform, I was encouraged to think about questions earlier on in my career journey like: 🍀 What's going to be sustainable for you? 😎 What work do you find easy? ⚡️ What's going to respect your energy levels? Is there work that gives you energy? For me, I love writing and I like to think I'm fairly good at it. But in university it became a painful process because I would overthink it and my detail-oriented brain would want to be unsustainably comprehensive. Like I'd seriously feel the need to read all 100+ research papers on a topic, even though my assignment had a five page maximum. Definitely not sustainable under regimented time demands with me having any semblance of a life. Did I do well? Absolutely. Was it good for me? Absolutely not. This experience taught me that, at least for this point in my life, a job like policy research or academia probably isn't the best for me - or at least might have consequences to my health if I'm not intentional with how I engage with it. That might change in the future, but right now, I still love writing and it's much more energy-fulfilling to do it when there isn't the pressure of potentially losing a job over not writing 'fast' or 'good' enough. On the contrary, I find work where a big part of my day is interacting with people very sustaining. 🌟 If you're a neurodivergent person yourself (or supporting someone early-stage in their career who is), I'd encourage you to think less about the product you're able to produce, and more about the process and how you feel during it. 💼 This goes for corporations too. Don't just think about whether neurodivergent people can excel at your company, but how you make them feel during their time with you. What career advice do you wish you received earlier? #Neuroinclusion #Neurodiversity #ADHD #CareerAdvice