Advanced Neurodiversity Coaching

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Professor Almuth McDowall
• Assessment: a 3000-word learning log (100%)

This module is designed for coaching practitioners, already holding a relevant qualification, who are seeking to enhance their skills and knowledge to work towards effective coaching in a neurodiversity context and who have already successfully completed our Introduction to Neurodiversity Coaching module.

It provides you with the opportunity to develop and enact neurodiversity coaching compassionately, ethically and informed by best evidence. Learning takes place via a blended approach, with four days of face-to-face teaching delivered in purpose-built facilities as two weekend sessions in London supplemented by online study, via Birkbeck’s virtual learning environment. You will participate in collaborative sessions and one-to-one tutorials online, and access video resources, readings and individual learning activities. Academic content is translated into practical sessions and case studies delivered by expert facilitators.

Indicative syllabus

• Up-to-date evidence on neurodiversity presentation
• Transfer of learning from equality, diversity and inclusion research
• Models of training evaluation and intersectionality analysis
• Professional boundaries, dilemmas and wicked problems
• Making the most of continued supervision - and how to know when supervision does not work/needs to change
• Critical appraisal of current literature

By the end of this module, you will be able to demonstrate:

• identification of typical psycho-social workplace strengths and struggles
• competence and confidence to coach in a neurodiversity context with emotional and relational issues
• the ability to work with overlapping adverse intersectional impacts
• the confidence to navigate ethical and professional boundaries
• reflection on independent coaching practice under supervision
• evaluation techniques for your own practice and routines for ongoing continued professional development
• critical appraisal of the evidence base underpinning your practice
• appropriate documentation of your own learning, demonstrating reflective and evidence-based practice.