Working or living alongside a neurodiverse young person brings with it a whole set of challenges. Teachers, family and community members can find themselves overwhelmed - realising they just don't know what to do next to help these highly-anxious and sensitive young people. With demand for neurodiversity education skyrocketing, fortunately so is the desire to better understand these differently wired minds and find new ways to move forward.
This is where Mind Over Manner comes in.
Mind Over Manner delivers theatre-based workshops alongside educators, whānau, professionals and communities. Ou workshops reframe neurodiversity as something to be celebrated and cherished, provide fast-tracked learning to those who need it most, and share life-changing strategies and tools that support neurodiverse young people to not only survive, but thrive.
We believe those in Takiwātanga (meaning in their own time and space) are our most creative and perceptive thinkers. By learning more about how to lean into their cognitive and sensory differences, we find that what's good for the neurodivergent is good for us all, too.
Mind Over Manner is driven by Susan Haldane, a mother and a creative with a lifetime of experience both working alongside neurodiversity and as a theatre maker. Our workshops, passionately facilitated by Sue and grounded current best-practice, are brought to life by a team of highly-trained actors with a passion for using their creative practice for social change.
We've seen time and time again the unique power of the arts to shift people's hearts and minds. It is this creative approach that makes our workshops different. By bringing to life real-world scenarios, unpacking them and reassessing our responses, we are able to empower everyone - neurodiverse or otherwise - to find a more connected way forward for our young people who think, learn and behave differently.
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