ADHD Support Group - AMS

How do we understand boundaries? and what do they are?
What are my own boundaries?
How to implement and respect my boundaries and others'?

Alone, everything can be hard. Together, we can create the world we need and deserve... and have fun in the process.

Practicalities:
- Bring your own food and drinks, share if you feel like (no alcohol)
- I will open the door as close as possible to 18:30
(I'm time blind, I can be late but I'm trying my best)
- We aim to start the conversation by 19:00
- We start with an introduction circle that takes +- 45 min
- We will have a 10 min. break around 20:00
- Then we go into small groups for around 1h
- We finish around 21:00
- You can stay in the space and socialise until 22:00

Learning Dutch Outside the Lines
Setting yourself up for success as a neurodivergent language learner

Learning Dutch when you have a neurodivergent brain can be... a lot.
Maybe you dive headfirst into a new method, app or textbook, only to lose interest a few weeks later. Maybe you understand much more Dutch than you actually speak. Maybe you've collected plenty of words and grammar rules, but actually using them when another human being is standing in front of you is a completely different story.

Or maybe you keep learning things, don't use them, forget them and find yourself starting over again.

When that happens often enough, it's easy to conclude that you need more discipline, a better routine or yet another shiny new Notebook of Hope™️.

But what if we got curious instead?

In this interactive workshop, we'll take a closer look at how you learn and use Dutch, where things tend to get difficult for you, and what the learning advice you've picked up along the way assumes you're able to do.

We'll explore questions such as: What are you doing because it genuinely helps you, and what are you doing because that's supposedly how you're meant to learn a language? What happens when you try to use the Dutch you already know? What makes it difficult to keep coming back after you've fallen out of a routine? And how can you make learning and using Dutch work better with your brain instead of constantly fighting it?

Along the way, we'll release some assumptions that may no longer be helping, reframe some of the things you've been treating as problems or failures, and reconnect with what you actually want Dutch to do for you.

This isn't a workshop about finding the One Perfect Neurodivergent Learning Method™️. Different brains need different things. The aim is to understand your own learning a little better and leave with practical ideas you can experiment with in your actual life.

About your facilitator

Our neurodiversity can keep us stuck in our heads, lost among fears from the past and anxieties about the future, hence completely disconnected from the present.

To be present is to be in our bodies, experiencing reality through our senses; this is why somatic work is extremely relevant to a balanced neurodivergent life.

Let's discuss what works and practice together some simple techniques to reconnect with the present moment, with who we are and our current life through our senses.

Alone, everything can be hard. Together, we can create the world we need and deserve... and have fun in the process.

Practicalities:
- Bring your own food and drinks, share if you feel like (no alcohol)
- I will open the door as close as possible to 18:30
(I'm time blind, I can be late but I'm trying my best)
- We aim to start the conversation by 19:00
- We start with an introduction circle that takes +- 45 min
- We will have a 10 min. break around 20:00
- Then we go into small groups for around 1h
- We finish around 21:00
- You can stay in the space and socialise until 22:00

When we grow up, live, study and work within systems that are not designed for us, what gets affected the most is our self-esteem.

We learn to believe that we are the problem, that we are not enough, that there is something wrong with us.

And that is simply not true, most of our struggles are systemic, yes we do have struggles and yes some things are really hard, but that does not mean that we are worthless or deserve less.

The main factor to thrive with a neurodivergent brain is to re-learn to accept and love ourselves as we are, easier to say than to accept it and do it, yeah, is. hard topic.

That is why we need a community to support us

Alone, everything can be hard. Together, we can create the world we need and deserve... and have fun in the process.

Practicalities:
- Bring your own food and drinks, share if you feel like (no alcohol)
- I will open the door as close as possible to 18:30
(I'm time blind, I can be late but I'm trying my best)
- We aim to start the conversation by 19:00
- We start with an introduction circle that takes +- 45 min
- We will have a 10 min. break around 20:00
- Then we go into small groups for around 1h
- We finish around 21:00
- You can stay in the space and socialise until 22:00