Events

Autism NI's Impact Award for Sports and Youth settings provides expert autism training and follow up support to your team. Receive step by step support to implement practical strategies to support autistic and neurodivergent members. Achieve the Impact Award and demonstrate your winning approach to inclusion.

We are thrilled to announce the Digital Skills Academy Programme, delivered in collaboration with Advice NI! This fully funded initiative is designed to empower and upskill your team with IT skills, including AI integration and cyber security, boosting your organisation’s productivity and digital confidence.

This full day, in person course will help you to understand the main elements of a structured teaching approach and how you can successfully implement these in a person centred and neuro-inclusive way for autistic children or adults.

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What do you need to include in a volunteer induction? How do you make it visually appealing? How do you value your volunteers, recognise they have other commitments, give them a voice? Have you considered moving volunteer induction online, or providing a combination of online and face to face? We will look at good practice and how we ensure we are being proactive and not reactive to our volunteers.

Browse our great range of products, gets hands-on demonstrations and ask any questions you may have about living with sight loss from our dedicated team.

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Keeping Adults Safe: Adult Safeguarding Champion and Appointed Person Refresher Training: The Adult Safeguarding Champion role combines responsibility for strategy, operations and oversight for an organisation in relation to adults at risk of harm under “Adult Safeguarding: Prevention and Protection in Partnership” (2015) and the “Adult Safeguarding Operational Procedures” (2016). Some organisations will also have Appointed Persons, with delegated responsibility for day to day adult safeguarding operations.

Leading & managing volunteers can be very fulfilling, but it also comes with some notable challenges. Even the best planned volunteering projects can struggle to attract and retain volunteers for the long term, leading to the need for repeated rounds of recruitment and the potential for burn-out in those volunteers who do remain.

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Do you know the legal difference between a volunteer and an employee, or the difference between a volunteer agreement and a contract of employment? Are you aware of the legal obligations to protect your volunteers’ health & Safety or the laws that govern how and when you need to request enhanced Access NI for volunteers? In this session, we will explore the differences between volunteers and employees, the laws that can impact volunteering work, and much more, including legal boundaries, and we will clarify best practice when involving volunteers.

This half day, online course will build your understanding and confidence to support autistic adults who have a co-occuring learning disability.

Understand the main features associated with autism and explore various strategies to support autistic people. The course will explore the key characteristics including communication, social interaction, repetitive behaviours and sensory differences. The course is delivered on Zoom, and includes group discussion, interactive activities and question/answer sessions, so you can get the support you need and maximise your learning.

Can you identify potential risks in your volunteering roles and projects? Do you know how assess these risks and manage them? During this session, we will explore these issues and more, including why we need to assess risk and how volunteer managers can implement this process within their volunteer programme.

This is a 4-hour in-person CPD Training for Pilates Teachers on how to add small balls and equipment into your Matwork classes which incorporates: · the Magic Circle · Prickle Stimulating Balls · the Bender Ball · the Foam Roller

Sometimes managing & leading volunteer teams can present us with unique challenges that can be difficult to overcome. Issues like: Volunteers who have come into conflict with each other in a way that is damaging team morale Volunteer teams who dislike & resist changes that the organisation wants to make Volunteers who are not performing well but who are unwilling to step back A volunteer who has clashed with a service user in a way that might damage the organisation’s reputation may arise and need your immediate attention without there being any clear guidance on how best to resolve them. This workshop will explain various strategies, communication styles, and conflict management skills that will help you resolve these types of difficulties. We will then explore some real case studies to think about how to apply these problem-solving techniques in practice.

The KEYHOLE® Early Intervention Programme is a 2-day interactive training course specifically designed for early years professionals. This training programme aims to help professionals develop their skills and confidence in supporting young autistic children or those that may be awaiting an assessment. Topics include play, communication, social interaction, behaviour, and the Early Years role. The aim of the course is to enable you with the skills and confidence to support the child and family in a person-centred and neuroinclusive way.

This course will explore the key characteristics of autism that may impact on a person’s anxiety and stress levels. The course will explore a range of strategies to help increase emotional understanding, emotional regulation and coping strategies to help an autistic individual reduce the impact of anxiety and avoid autistic burnout. The course will also explore how you can minimise anxiety triggers for autistic people within your professional role or service.

The KEYHOLE® Early Intervention Programme is a 2-day interactive training course specifically designed for early years professionals. This training programme aims to help professionals develop their skills and confidence in supporting young autistic children or those that may be awaiting an assessment. Topics include play, communication, social interaction, behaviour, and the Early Years role. The aim of the course is to enable you with the skills and confidence to support the child and family in a person-centred and neuroinclusive way.

Understand the main features associated with autism and explore various strategies to support autistic people. The course will explore the key characteristics including communication, social interaction, repetitive behaviours and sensory differences. The course is delivered online over 2 evenings, via Zoom.

Pilates Matwork is taking the wellness world by storm. But what do you do for those clients who cannot actually make it to the mat? Join Pilates Trainer Victoria Cunningham for this workshop to learn how to adapt Pilates Matwork Exercises for clients who need more accessible options.