Benefit event for autistic refugees from Ukraine

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'Help Us Help' - a fundraiser for neurodivergent refugees from Ukraine.
All donations will go to the Polish autistic-run charity Fundacja Prodeste, to help them help neurodivergent refugees from Ukraine and their families.

Sunday, April 10th, via Zoom
3pm-7pm (UK time)
10am-2pm (Eastern Time)
7am-11am (Pacific Time)


Free registration. Donations welcome.

Donations are already fueling food, clothes, transport, housing, communication tools like AAC, access to much needed information and much more.

To register: https://tinyurl.com/2p8ubdr9

Programme
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Four hours of insights and discussion:

- Mirroring, Invalidation and Developmental Trauma -
Eoin Stephens (autistic psychotherapist, Ireland)

- 'The New Kid in Class' -
Chris Bonello (autistic author, public speaker and former teacher, UK)

- The Ukrainian Experience -
Hanna Davydenko (author of articles and trainings on adapting conditions for neurodivergent people in society and in the workplace, Ukraine. Currently a refugee in Ireland)

- (Re)Making Personal Spaces -
Stiof MacAmhalghaidh (autistic advocate and speaker, Ireland)

- Exploring 'Appropriate Therapy' -
Eoin Stephens (autistic psychotherapist, Ireland)
Yael Clark (autistic developmental psychologist, Australia)
Tara Killen (autistic psychologist, Ireland)

- Art: regulation, expression, therapy and space -
Pernille Fraser (autistic artist, UK)

- Neurodivergent Communication -
Evaleen Whelton (autistic Speech and Communications teacher, author and founder of the AUsome Conference, Ireland)

- Autistic Parenting ~ Parenting Autistics ~
Rosemarie Carreiro (autistic mother to autistic children, Canada)

- Autistic and on the run... one important thing -
Martijn Dekker (autistic speaker and writer, longtime member of the Autscape Board, Netherlands)

- Panel Discussion -
Joanna Ławicka (autistic psychotherapist and educator, president of the Polish charity Fundacja Prodeste, Poland)
Heta Pukki (autistic translator, writer and event organizer, Finland)
George Watts (autistic academic and self-advocate, UK)


To read more about the speakers, click here:
https://www.facebook.com/116077774379907

As a pensioner I find it hard to make ends meet but I am so moved by the brutality towards the Ukrainian people I did give a sizable donation to the International Red Cross specifically targeted towards helping displaced Ukrainians. I sincerely hope at least some of it helped some neuro-diverse people there. I am utterly appalled by what Putin is doing to feed his ego and misplaced sense of history. In many respects it is as if Hitler has come back to life.