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What is Neurodiversity Gifts?
Neurodiversity Gifts is an impactful, multi-dimensional encounter workshop brought to you by South African Josh and the National Empowerment Center.
It is designed to give people living with mental health conditions a fresh, colorful perspective of their potential, and an expanded view of reality at large. It also serves as a profound cultural competency and diversity training for mental health providers that can allow for deep understanding and rapport to be built with your clients.
​By combining insights from Western perspectives (science, psychology, and philosophy) with insights from Non-Western perspectives (traditional cultures, spirituality, and mysteries), Neurodiversity Gifts helps you reframe your identity away from self-stigma, towards post-traumatic growth, and the potential gifts of your Neurodiverse mind.
This 12 hour license allows you to run the Neurodiversity Gifts workshop for your clients, staff, and community as many times as you like, and reap all the fruit that generates. The course is structured as 7 sessions of 1 hr 45 mins each, but the material is versatile enough to be adapted for your purposes. It comes with a compilation of printable PDFs including a Facilitator's Guide.
The license also empowers you to grant access to the Graduate platform and community.Â
Your adventure starts now!
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Join South African Josh on the Mental Health Adventure of a Lifetime
South African Josh transmutes the mess of his bipolar 1 into a message of metamorphosis and hope.
His extensive personal lived experience with mental health (6 involuntary hospitalizations, 2 arrests, blowing $86k) has given him a unique and powerful emic perspective of the terrain of the mind.
With education that fuses the worlds of psyche and spirit (BA in Psychology from the University of South Africa and an MA in Theology from Fuller Seminary in California), Josh advocates for the healing power of meaning, purpose, and connection, creating a synergy between the inner and outer worlds.
A certified Peer Support Specialist, public speaker, and multi-modal facilitator, he works with the National Empowerment Center, NAMI, Interfaith, and his own company Inspired Mind Mental Health in providing fresh inspiration to the mental health field through the paradigm of Neurodiversity Gifts.
He and a team of peers created the latest version of the State-wide Peer Support Specialist exam, and he is funded by the County of San Diego to train mental health professionals in the power of faith, and faith leaders in the power of mental health.Â
He lives with his wife and two young daughters in San Diego, California, shining lucid light on our collective American Dream.
Example Curriculum
- 1.1 Neurodiversity the Word (2:14)
- 1.2 Judy Singer and the Canaries in the Coal Mine (2:57)
- 1.3 Activity - The Power of Perspective (4:52)
- 1.4 Neurodiverse Geniuses and Game-Changers (1:44)
- 1.5 The Placebo Effect (2:31)
- 1.6 Dr. Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (6:14)
- 1.7 Overview and Open Discussion (3:23)
- 3.1 Colorful Intros (5:02)
- 3.2 Carl Jung's Model of the Psyche (5:38)
- 3.3 Carl Jung's Neurodiversity (4:00)
- 3.4 Activity - The 5,4,3,2,1 Grounding Exercise (1:20)
- 3.5 Activity - Active Imagination Exercise (5:33)
- 3.6 Activity - Jungian Personality Self-Assessment (0:39)
- 3.7 Overview and Open Discussion (2:08)
- 5.1 Colorful Intros (5:10)
- 5.2 Learning Balance from the Greeks (12:15)
- 5.3 Intro to Spiritual Frameworks (2:58)
- 5.4 Spirituality 1 - Higher Dimensional Christianity (19:02)
- 5.5 Spirituality 2 - Higher Dimensional Hinduism (5:10)
- 5.6 Activity - Expect, Connect, Respond (1:28)
- 5.7 Overview and Open Discussion (3:32)
- 7.1 Colorful Intros (4:37)
- 7.2 Noetic and Exceptional Human Experiences (2:51)
- 7.3 Learning Balance from the Modern World - IONS (2:38)
- 7.4 Learning Balance from the Modern World - Dr. Suzanne Brown (4:43)
- 7.5 The Big Picture and Hegel (3:43)
- 7.6 Activity - Metaphorical Ink Blot Art (2:06)
- 7.7 Activity - Your Ukuthwasa Graduation (4:35)
What They're Saying
The terrain of Neurodiversity Gifts has been traveled by hundreds of peers in San Diego for the past two years, with riveting results!