Find here our menu of online pay-per-view webinars, videos, & free brief educative videos.
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Starters – introductory topics
Aucademy Educating: Autistic wellbeing: What works? – 1hr 47 mins
In this video Dr Chloe Farahar discusses Autistic wellbeing (anxiety; overwhelm; harmful stims; voice hearing; depression; etc.); what does and does not work to improve Autistic wellbeing (e.g. adapted CBT); & the importance of Autistic identity, culture, community, & space for wellbeing.
£15.11
Aucademy in discussion: Four Autistic women and their Autistic journeys – 2hrs 25mins
In this video four Aucademy Educators discuss their journey to discovering their Autistic identities.
£0
Mains – topics in depth
Existential Academy & Online Events – Healing from the “culture of autism” in words and pictures – 1hr (and access to full 9.5hr conference)
This video is the recording of the live “Other than Myself: Diversity Conference” held October 2022, where Dr Farahar spoke about “Healing from the “culture of autism” in words and pictures”. For £19.99 you will receive 9.5 hours of recordings, access resources from the speakers, and a CPD certificate.
£19.99
Aucademy – Autistic pregnancy & postnatal experiences event – 5 hours 20 minutes
This video is the recording of the live Autistic pregnancy & postnatal experiences event held 26th September 2020. This one-off, online event approached the topic of pregnancy & post-natal experiences for Autistic &/or neurodivergent people, & we were honoured to host a number of Autistic child-bearers, parents, researchers, & professionals.
£33.50
Aucademy educating: Working With Neurodiversity In Mind – What Can We Learn From Lockdown? – 1.5hr
In this video Dr Chloe Farahar, an Autistic academic, helps you recognise what can be learnt from the lockdown to help you create a strong neurodiverse workplace.
£0
Aucademy in discussion: Interview with Emma Dalmayne, Autistic Woman of Colour, advocate, & activist – 1hr
In this video Dr Chloe Farahar interviews Emma Dalmayne, where Emma discusses POC Autistic experiences and the support these minorities need. Emma is an Autistic Woman of Colour, advocate, and activist, fighting against the harm done to Autistic people in the name of “curing” us.
£0
Aucademy Educating: Autistic sensory differences & stimming for wellbeing – 1hr
Annette Foster explains Autistic sensory processing differences; the need to regulate via self-stimulatory behaviour – stimming; harmful stims; providing a mindful stim session to round off the hour. TO BE RELEASED 2021
£15
Desserts – sweet, brief topic videos
What is Neurodiversity? – 6 mins 28 secs
In this short video Dr Chloe Farahar explains what neurodiversity is, and how this relates to the need to be accepting of neurodivergent ways of experiencing the world, such as being Autistic, having attention differences (ADHD/ADD), and voice hearing.
£0
Neurodiversity Inclusive Teaching – 3 minutes
In this 3-minute video Dr Chloe Farahar explains what neurodiversity is; what falls under the neurodiversity umbrella (spoiler – everyone does!); challenges and strengths of being neurodivergent; the psychology discipline attracts neurodivergent students; how we can accommodate and be inclusive in seminars.
£0
The importance of language – what’s in a name? – 6 minutes
In this 6-minute video Chloe Farahar explains the importance of understanding the Autistic communities preference (on the whole) for identity-first language.
£0
What is Autistic stimming? – 3 minutes
In this 3-minute video Annette Foster explains Autistic sensory processing differences; defines Autistic stimming; & gives examples; touching on the topic of harmful stims. TO BE RELEASED 2021
£0
Mindful stim video – 5 minutes
In this short video, Annette Foster guides you with a mindful stim meditation. TO BE RELEASED 2021
£0
Mindful stim audio – X minutes
In this x-minute video a number of Autistic people provide guided mindful stim audio to help you relax – there are X versions, so hopefully you will find one that is right for you.
TO BE RELEASED 2021
£0
Aucademy Educating: Autistic wellbeing: What works? – 1hr 47 mins
In this video Dr Chloe Farahar discusses Autistic wellbeing (anxiety; overwhelm; harmful stims; voice hearing; depression; etc.); what does and does not work to improve Autistic wellbeing (e.g. adapted CBT); & the importance of Autistic identity, culture, community, & space for wellbeing.
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Find here a downloadable PDF of the references Dr Chloe Farahar cites in her presentation.
- Aucademy Educating: Autistic wellbeing: What works? video link – redirects to Vimeo.
Working With Neurodiversity In Mind – What Can We Learn From Lockdown? – Webinar Replay
In this webinar Dr Chloe Farahar, an Autistic academic, helps you recognise what can be learnt from the lockdown to help you create a strong neurodiverse workplace. While providing an understanding of what neurodiversity is, and the common types of neurodivergent employees you will work with, this webinar offers practical examples and potential solutions to some common challenges and strengths neurodivergent employees experience. This will help you work with neurodiversity in mind so that you, your workplace, and importantly your employees and colleagues, benefit and thrive from the diversity of human minds.
This was part of the university’s Kent and Innovation Centre: Covid 19 Business Recovery Response webinar series.
Aucademy – Autistic pregnancy & postnatal experiences event
This five hour event was originally hosted live 26th September 2020 – payment buttons are at the bottom of this page
Aucademy hosted its first online conference on pregnancy and post-natal experiences for Autistic and/or neurodivergent people.
This one-off, five hour online event approached the topic of pregnancy and post-natal experiences for Autistic and/or neurodivergent people, and we were honoured to be host a number of Autistic child-bearers, parents, researchers, and professionals.
The full details of the conference are down the page.
The speakers were a mix of Autistic/neurodivergent researchers, professionals, and parents delivering discussion on various topics relating to pregnancy and post-natal experiences as an Autistic child-bearer (*note an attempt not to gender the event, as trans men and non-binary people can have children. Speakers spoke to their experiences based on their gender, but acknowledged pregnancy, childbearing, and child-raising are not gendered experiences).
All speakers aimed to end on a positive note about the strengths of being an Autistic childbearer, and the ultimate aim of the event was to arm you with knowledge, personal perspectives, and practical advice on being Autistic going through pregnancy & the birthing experience.
Webinar recording details:
| Time on video | Speakers | Topic | Warnings |
| 20 seconds in | Hayley Morgan | The Autistic Birth Experience – Q & A will be answered in Facebook chat | |
| 43 mins 52 secs in | Lisa Alvarez & Amy Ashton | Breastfeeding when Autistic; pregnancy & birthing experience when undiagnosed – Q & A will be answered in Facebook chat | Bleeding nipples; baby sicking up blood; birth trauma |
| 1 hour 54 mins 45 secs in | Kodie Morris Dalmayne | Hyperemesis Gravidarum (severe vomiting during pregnancy) – Q & A will be answered in Facebook chat | Severe vomiting; mentions injections |
| 2 hours 35 mins 28 secs | Emma Durman | Autistic Birth – From the Inside Out | Birth trauma; consent |
| 3 hours 23 mins 17 secs in | Jane Green | Pregnancy and labour risks with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome hypermobility spectrum disorder (EDS HSD): “issues with our tissues” | Pregnancy and labour risks |
| 4 hours 9 mins 30 secs in | Abigail Ruffy | Holistic birthwork and support | |
| 4 hours 54 mins 37 secs | Chloe Farahar | Event wrap-up and thanks |
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- Aucademy – Autistic pregnancy & postnatal experiences. Video link – redirects to Vimeo.
Existential Academy & Online Events – Healing from the “culture of autism” in words and pictures – 1hr (and access to full 9.5hr conference)
This video is the recording of the live “Other than Myself: Diversity Conference” held October 2022, where Dr Farahar spoke about “Healing from the “culture of autism” in words and pictures”.
For £19.99 you will receive 9.5 hours of recordings, access resources from the speakers, and a CPD certificate.
- VIEW RECORDING – View the full recording of the workshop at your leisure. Come back to the recording at any time and pick up where you left off. Watch the video as many times as you wish to deeply embed the learning.
- CPD Certificate – View the whole video to access a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certificate. The Certificate is proof of your commitment to continuing and deepening your learning as a practitioner.
DOWNLOAD YOUR CONFERENCE BROCHURE HERE
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KEYNOTE Dr Dwight Turner: Being The Other From Performativity To Authenticity
We all perform, we all shuck and jive, we masquerade, we act in a way that allows us to fit in with the worlds that we inhabit. Be it that we are women working in patriarchal environments, or persons of colour existing in a world which is majority white, or that we are of a working class background fighting to survive with superiors who are of a middle or upper class denotion. We all find ways that allow us to feel accepted and safe. The issue with many of these is that we are then left in a state or inauthenticity.
The cost of this sense of inauthenticity can run quite deep psychologically, and for those of us who are other can lead to anything from physical symptoms to psychological collapse.
This talk will look at some of the costs to this inauthentic state of who we are, together with some of the reasons why we conform to ways of being which are alien to us, before exploring just what it might be like to be authentically whole and free.
BIO: Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader on the Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, a PhD Supervisor at their Doctoral College, a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. His latest book Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy was released in February 2021 and is published by Routledge.
An activist, writer and public speaker on issues of race, difference and intersectionality in counselling and psychotherapy, Dr Turner can be contacted via his website www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk and can be followed on Twitter at @dturner300 .
KEYNOTE Dr Chloe Farahar: Healing from the “culture of autism” – in words and pictures
In this talk, Dr Farahar will be discussing healing from the “culture of autism” in words and pictures. Some of the pictures they include are screenshots from an Autistic group performance piece, Adventures of Super Autie Gang, from the 2019 Autism Arts Festival.
These pictures are used to help tell the story of an Autistic journey from the isolating start as a “broken human”, through to a pathologised “person with autism”, to become an empowered Autistic person who is part of a community and culture.
Content Notes: discussion of suicidality and traumatic experiences e.g., bullying and discrimination; pictures of people with swear words and negative words written on their body.
BIO: Dr Chloe Farahar (she/they – Autistic): Late-diagnosed, perpetually, enduringly, eternally, weird, odd, standoffish, but also beautifully, irredeemably Autistic. Chloe is an Autistic academic whose research interests revolve around her Autistic specialisations and dedicated interests (not “special interests”), and they are currently on an Oxford-led project as a research associate, looking at ACEs, mental health, and innate neurodivergence.
Chloe’s specialisations include: supporting Autistic people with their co-founded Autistic Discovery Journey programme; reimagining the spectrum as a three dimension Autistic space; creating neurodivergent-inclusive environments; and educating both Autistic and non-autistic learners about Autistic experience in their training courses and on the free educative platform, Aucademy, with fellow Autistic people.
KEYNOTE Celena Lewis: “My Mother’s Handbag: Writings to the other side and back again.”
The presentation is about Loss. This will be a performative, embodied piece. Emotions usually hidden or spoken about in private will be given a public voice today. My mother’s handbag will contain All of the various written letters, poems, snippets & stories. I shall take each of these out of her bag and read them to you.
Bio: My name is Celena Lewis I was born and grew up in Cardiff, South Wales. I describe myself as Human, Black, Female, of Kittitian (from the Island of St Kitts in the East Caribbean) heritage. I became a singer and had my first professional engagement at 13 and first recording contract at age 14. I went to a Stage School in London and appeared in Musicals, Television shows & Tours over a 21- year period of my life.
I am a Narrative Therapist, Zumba Instructor, an Experimental and Experiential Writer. I have been a therapist for 21 years and have used writing to express myself and have encouraged, where appropriate, clients to do the same. The theory that comes close to describing how I write would be Autoethnographic, poetic (at times), performative (at times) & heartfelt (most of the time).
The process of writing is about speaking straight from the heart as and when the need arises – a meaning making effort. I write of my lived experience about Loss, Family Dynamics, Illness, Inter-racial relationship/s, survivor guilt, sexual trauma and associated emotional turmoil with attempts to give all aspects of self a voice.