Neuroinclusive Facilitation for Trainers and Facilitators

Want to make your facilitation more neuroinclusive?

When you run a workshop, training session, or consultation, your choices influence who can participate and whose contributions are heard. The pace you set, the instructions you give, and the environment you create can make a significant difference.

For ADHD Awareness Month, Callie Elward-Barrett from Executive Functioning Leadership and Cecilia Jones from Intelligent People are partnering to offer a free, practical webinar on neuroinclusive facilitation.

We’ll explore how to create sessions that support different ways of thinking, processing information, learning, and contributing. Whether you facilitate online or in person, you’ll find ideas to help you review your approach and make practical changes.

What we’ll cover

• Neurodiversity fundamentals: what facilitators need to understand about different minds and how these differences can affect the experience of a session

• Physical and online setup: how the environment, session structure, and information you provide can reduce barriers to participation

• The 5Cs for Neuroinclusive Facilitation: application to the decisions you make before and during a session

• Participation principles and group norms: creating clear expectations and meaningful options for contributing, including looking beyond speaking up as a measure of engagement

• There will be a Q&A at the end of the session, you can also send a question to us before the event after check out

You’ll leave with a practical starting point for reviewing your own sessions, identifying unnecessary demands, and offering greater choice in how people participate.

Who is this for?

Anyone who facilitates workshops, training, consultations, meetings, or group discussions. That includes professional facilitators, trainers, coaches, educators, team leaders, community engagement practitioners, and people working in learning and development, change, research, or design.

You don’t need facilitator in your job title, or prior expertise in neuroinclusion, to attend.

What makes this session different?

This partnership brings together specialist neuroinclusion knowledge and substantial experience facilitating real conversations through complexity. We’ll connect the principles with the everyday decisions facilitators face, from explaining an activity to establishing group expectations.

Although we’re hosting the webinar for ADHD Awareness Month, the session will consider neurodiversity more broadly. We’ll explore ways to offer flexibility while keeping the purpose of your session clear.

Meet your hosts

Callie Elward-Barrett | Executive Functioning Leadership

Callie is a neuroinclusion specialist, coach, and facilitator, with more than 25 years of experience facilitating workshops, national co-design sessions, community and stakeholder consultations, user research and design, and change management. Drawing on senior leadership experience and her lived experience as an AuDHDer, she helps people translate neuroinclusion into practical changes. Her work includes the 5Cs Model for Neuroinclusion© and the Neuroinclusion Capability Framework™, co-created with Jayne Gurton.

Cecilia Jones | Intelligent People

Cecilia is a credentialed coach and mentor, conflict coach, facilitator, and people strategist. Her background spans senior leadership across government, health, and the private sector, including HR leadership and ICU nursing management. She supports leaders and teams to navigate complex professional challenges, with diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice at the foundation of her practice. Cecilia holds a Master of Education (Research) and is a certified executive and team coach, an accredited conflict coach, and a credentialled Fellow of the Australian HR Institute.

Event details

Date: Wednesday 21 October 2026
Time: 12-1 pm AEDT, Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra time
Location: Online via Microsoft Teams
Cost: Free for ADHD Awareness Month

How to join: Register through Humanitix and you’ll receive the session access link by email.

If there is something that would help you access or participate in the webinar, please contact the organisers through Humanitix before the event so we can discuss it with you.

Book your free place and join us to explore what neuroinclusive facilitation can look like in your practice.