INTERSECTIONS: for Neuro-spicy &/LGBTQI+ & allies ADV PAYMENT preferred

## Details

# 🌈 INTERSECTIONS: A Wellbeing Workshop for Neurospicy &/ LGBTQI+ Humans & Allies
ADVANCE PAYMENT REQUIRED – LIMITED TO 20 PARTICIPANTS
📍 Location: Aconchego House / Aco Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
🎟️ Workshop Ticket: €15 in advance or 20 Euros cash or card on the day
👉 Book now: https://buy.stripe.com/4gw03L7cn3yQaDS5kp
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## 🎯 The Quick Blurb
Who: LGBTQI+ and/or neurodivergent humans (diagnosed, self-diagnosed or exploring) and their allies.
What: A two-part interactive wellbeing workshop with a social hour and evening improv show.
Where: Aconchego House / Aco Lisboa, Lisbon
When: 17th May 2025 | WORKSHOP: 2:15 PM–5:30 PM
POST WORKSHOP SOCIAL HANGOUT 5:45 – 6:45 PM SHOW: doors open 6.45 SHOW STARTS: 7 PM UNTIL 8 PM
Why: Because being queer and neurospicy deserves celebration, connection, and laughter.
INTERSECTIONS is a bold and inclusive event hosted by Isabelle Amorim and Ginny Evans-Pollard, combining therapeutic conversation with creative expression. Part 1 explores how neurodiversity shapes relationships. Part 2 brings the healing power of humour into the spotlight through improv, storytelling, and joyful chaos. The day ends with an optional performance — Oops! My Neurodiversity is Showing!? — from Queen Queerlysh and her team. A space for laughing, sharing, and being gloriously yourself.
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## 🎁 EARLY BIRD BONUS – WORTH €50
Remember! For the first 5 BOOKINGS, by May 15 @ 2:15 PM, you’ll get a FREE 30-minute private coaching session with Ginny (worth €50). 👉 Claim your session here after payment:
https://calendly.com/empauher_com/empauher-initial-call-intersections
**FREE 30 min private counselling session, for the first 5 BOOKINGS, with Isabelle (worth 50 EUR), contact me privately on email: isabelle.amorim.counselor@gmail.com**

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## 🎟 How to Book for the Workshop:
✅ Step 1: Pay for your ticket → https://buy.stripe.com/4gw03L7cn3yQaDS5kp

📸 Step 2: Share a screenshot of your payment to Ginny's business Empauher WhatsApp @ +447938001959

👋 Step 3: Join the group chat to connect → https://chat.whatsapp.com/J2K4jv8bwf44DuSKYYyvg1
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## Facilitator Bios
## About Ginny Evans-Pollard (Coach)
Ginny Evans-Pollard (she/they) is a neurodivergent and queer coach, educator, and founder of Empauher Coaching & Retreats. With the lived experience of ADHD and dyslexia, and as an out and proud lesbian, Ginny supports LGBTQI+ and neurodivergent individuals to stop masking, build confidence, and thrive. Her coaching spaces are radically inclusive, creatively led, and deeply affirming.
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## 🧠 About Isabelle Amorim
Isabelle Amorim (she/her) is a trauma-informed therapeutic practitioner and community facilitator with a background in clinical psychology. Passionate about creating safer spaces for healing and collective care, Isabelle integrates tools, intersectional awareness, and deep listening to support those living at the margins to reconnect with themselves and others. She is queer, neurodivergent, and Brazilian-born.
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## 🧠💜 What is INTERSECTIONS?
INTERSECTIONS is a creative well-being experience for neurodivergent and/or LGBTQI+ humans and allies. Whether you’re diagnosed, self-diagnosed, questioning, or just exploring — this is your space to connect, express, and be unapologetically YOU.
Led by Isabelle Amorim and Ginny Evans-Pollard, the workshop blends therapeutic discussion with playful performance to celebrate the intersection of neurodivergence, queerness, and creative expression.
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## ✨ Why Attend?
This is more than a workshop — it's a brave and joyful space to share, laugh, and reflect with people who just get it.
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### 🔹 PART 1 — Neurodiversity & Relationships (2:15 – 3:45 PM)
Led by Isabelle Amorim (with support from Ginny Evans-Pollard)
A therapeutic sharing circle exploring how neurodivergence impacts communication, boundaries, and emotional connection in relationships.
📝 Includes optional written reflections and a story box for anonymous sharing.
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### 🔹 Break (3:45 – 4:00 PM)
Stretch, grab a drink, or drop an anonymous oops moment in our installation box.
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### 🔹 PART 2 — Comedy is Tragedy Plus Time (4:00 – 5:30 PM)
Led by Ginny Evans-Pollard (with support from Isabelle Amorim)
A joyful, interactive session using improv games and storytelling to explore how laughter helps us reframe challenges and celebrate our neuro-spicy selves.
Stay to hang out after the workshop and make new friends and new connections:
### 🔹 SOCIAL HANGOUT (5:45 – 6:45 PM)
Join us for an informal post-workshop hangout!
🍿 Bring a snack that pairs well with a drink — something easy to share.
🍹 Drinks are available at the bar. A minimum spend of €7 supports the venue.
Connect, decompress, and enjoy the vibe with your fellow neurodivergent and queer community.
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## 🎭 SHOWTIME: Oops! My Neurodiversity Is Showing!? (7:15 – 8:15 PM)
Sign up for a meet-up:
https://www.meetup.com/lisbon-improv-workshops/events/306798905
Doors open: 6:45 PM
An early-evening comedy-drama-infused improv show inspired by real-life oops moments from the community and created and performed by Queen Queerlysh (Ginny’s alter ego) and her team of neurospicy misfits.
Expect raw honesty, awkward hilarity, and queer neurodivergent magic on stage.
🎤 Final reflections and closing: 8:15 – 8:30 PM
🎟 Want to attend the show too? Grab your show ticket in advance for only 7 euros separately from the workshop — spots are limited! Or pay at the venue by card or cash. It is a pay-what-you-can show, so no one is left standing outside.
👉 Here is the link to get your advanced tickets: https://buy.stripe.com/14kcQx40bglC3bq8wC
Sign up here on Meetup https://www.meetup.com/lisbon-improv-workshops/events/306798905/
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## 👑 About Queen Queerlysh (Performer Bio – short)
Queen Queerlysh is the bold, irreverent stage persona of Ginny Evans-Pollard. A comedic storyteller and seasoned improviser, she brings sharp wit, theatrical flair, and chaotic joy to every performance. Her work celebrates queer identity, neurodivergent truth, and the power of laughing at life’s messiest moments.
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## 🌈 Unapologetically Neurodiverse. Unapologetically LGBTQI+. Unapologetically YOU!
🎟 Spots are limited. Book now, bring your story, and connect with your creative crew at Aconchego House / Aco Lisboa, Lisbon.