Andy Williamson
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uh anything to do with neurodiversity is our jam really and that's quite a broad range of things so we provide workshops and trainings and consultancy policy help things like that but we do a lot of work in the events industry through what we're going to talk about today but um through the abco working group that we joined um we've done a lot of work on networking in event sorry um neuro inclusion in events um we put together about a year ago the the um
neurodiversity and events checklist which is a guide on how to make your events new inclusive a free guide i might add on how to make your events uh neuro inclusive we also have a neuro inclusive venue accreditation so venues can get accredited show off their their credentials and then we just recently launched the the networking guide on how you can make networking neuro inclusive so everything we do is driven by the idea of making things actionable practical easy to access and so people actually do it
I mean, no, I mean, we all started from the same position.
Anecdotally, I think we were all uncomfortable with networking as is, and we all sort of swapped horror stories.
But I mean, from a neuroinclusion perspective, the two most common things that neurodivergent people can traditionally struggle with are crowds and
and sensory overload.
And those two things are what networking is really.
So as sort of a first principles perspective, it seemed like it was ripe for reexamination.
So that was where we started.
That was the problem we identified.
And then it turned out from doing the survey that most people did agree with us.
Neurotypical and neurodivergent people agreed with us.
And that was borne out by the results of the survey, actually, is what we had sort of in our mind's eye was this idea of unstructured mingling.
Like you said, so there's a there's a we're at a conference, there's an hour set aside in the conference hall where we can get tea and coffees or a glass of wine or something and do our unstructured mingling there.
That sort of formal networking, the networking that happens organically at a dinner or something like that is a slightly different.
but we were focused mostly on this unstructured mingling which is still the default for most networking where we sort of just drop kick everybody in a room together and say have at it.
That's what we had and that's what we wanted to change and it was very clear from the results that's what most people didn't like.
The awkwardness of having to hold your saucer with your tea on it and manage the handshake or people are standing in triangles, how can I break in?
That sort of deal was what we were looking to change.
Well, yeah, exactly.
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