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2. Less than a month to go: 2026 Autistic Mental Health Conference

Friday 14th – Sunday 16th August is creeping up fast. Three days exploring "Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues", hybrid and online-accessible from anywhere, with an optional in-person day in Coldean, Brighton & Hove on the Saturday.

The lineup includes Dr. Nick Walker, David Gray-Hammond, Tanya Adkin, Erin Ekins, and many more Autistic and neurodivergent speakers and researchers.

A few reasons not to wait:

Free access to all recordings as a ticket holder; including a bonus on-demand library of extra talks that couldn't fit the live schedule

Certificate of attendance available for CPD; handy if you're a professional or practitioner

Prices from £50, with 33% off for NeuroHub Community members (code below the paywall on this article)

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This event is going to be a huge highlight of the year, with Autistic people’s lived experience front and centre on it’s delivery.

If you want to get your ticket, you can do so below. There is a 33% discount for community members. See below the paywall for your discount code.

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August 14th to August 16th 2026

August 15th is a hybrid day with the option to attend in person in Brighton, East Sussex!

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This is the most time-sensitive thing in this newsletter, so we’re putting it first.

The 2026 Autistic Mental Health Conference takes place on 14–16 August; and that is just one month away.

Tickets are on sale now, starting from £50, and we genuinely encourage you not to leave it too long. This is a three-day hybrid event, fully accessible online, exploring the theme Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues. The speaker line-up includes Dr. Nick Walker, Dr. Nathan Keates, Erin Ekins, Ava McAuley, Lawrence Kampf, and many more; each bringing lived experience, research, and Autistic-led perspectives that you simply won’t find in mainstream mental health spaces.

The in-person day (Saturday 15th August) takes place in Coldean, Brighton & Hove, with stalls, food, and entertainment alongside the live sessions. But you can join from anywhere in the world for all three days.

If you would like to have a stall at the in-person day, they cost £15, email admin@neurohubcommunity.org to arrange this.

Crucially: all talks will be recorded and made available to ticket holders. If you can’t attend every session live, you won’t miss out; you’ll have access to the full recordings to revisit in your own time.

NeuroHub Community members receive a 33% discount on all ticket types. View the paywall at the bottom of this newsletter to get access to the code or join the NeuroHub Community by clicking here.

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Please share this with anyone you think would benefit. The more neurodivergent voices in the room, the better.

A Note From David

As we approach July it feels like a moment to pause and take stock of everything we’ve been building together.

Since launching NeuroHub Community earlier this year, we’ve been working on so many fronts simultaneously; community spaces, courses, new services, blog content, podcasts, research, and now the conference. It can be easy to miss what’s happening across the whole organisation, so this newsletter is a chance to bring it all together and share it with you.

There’s a lot to tell you about. Let’s get into it.

David at The ADHD Experience Part 8: Suzi Payton in Brighton

Before we dive into NeuroHub news, here’s something a little different. David recently performed at The ADHD Experience Part 8, organised by Suzi Payton in Brighton — a wonderful event celebrating neurodivergent voices, stories, and community.

If you’ve not come across Suzi Payton’s events before, they are well worth checking out, check out there substack -

New: Family Support Service

We’re really pleased to announce the launch of our Family Support Service; something we’ve been developing in response to what families have been telling us they need.

Neurodivergent life doesn’t happen in isolation. When one family member is Autistic or otherwise neurodivergent, the whole family unit is shaped by that experience. Our Family Support Service works holistically with the entire family, helping you understand one another more deeply, identify where things feel hard, and build on the strengths and interests already present in your family to move forward together.

Our work is grounded in the Six-Point Framework and takes a strengths-based, non-deficit approach. We charge on a sliding scale; from £150 to £400 per month, and you decide what you can afford. We believe you. We have further flexibility depending on personal circumstances.

This service is for any family that includes one or more neurodivergent members. You do not need a formal diagnosis to access support.

Find out more and sign up here

Upcoming Webinar: Surviving the System: Autism, Addiction, and the Road to Recovery

Friday 31st July, 1:30pm–4:00pm (online via Zoom)

David Gray-Hammond will be presenting a lived experience talk with Q+A exploring what it actually means to be Autistic and substance-dependent in a healthcare system that wasn’t built to hold both realities at once. This includes an honest account of misdiagnosis, twelve-step programmes, and why community (not a programme or a protocol) was what ultimately made recovery possible.

The presentation will draw on the Ecosystemic Model of Distress, framing Autistic addiction not as individual failing but as an outcome of systemic mismatch. It is followed by open Q+A.

This event is accessible on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with the option to attend for free. It is suitable for health and social care professionals, substance use practitioners, mental health workers, commissioners, and anyone with lived experience of addiction or Autistic identity.

Content note: This presentation includes personal disclosure around substance use, mental health crisis, misdiagnosis, and institutional harm.

Register here — including the free option

Building Something New: The Practitioner Web App

We’re also approaching the final stages of building and testing a practitioner web app designed specifically for client-facing professionals working with neurodivergent people.

The app brings together a suite of practical tools built on our Six-Point Framework; giving professionals a single, coherent resource they can draw on in their day-to-day work with Autistic and neurodivergent clients. We’re currently in the building and testing phase and look forward to sharing more details with you soon.

If you’re a professional interested in hearing more when the time comes, make sure you’re subscribed to the Professional Gateway for immediate access when it launches.

Join The Professional Gateway Here (Starts At £25 A Month)

Everything NeuroHub Does; In One Place

If you’re new here (or if you’ve been meaning to properly explore what NeuroHub offers), we recently published a complete overview of our core services and offerings. Here’s a quick summary of what’s available:

For individuals: one-to-one consultancy and mentoring, our peer support community, mindfulness meditations designed for neurodivergent nervous systems, the Family Support Service, the Mindfully Divergent Programme, and our course library.

Courses: The Supporting Autistic People course introduces the Six-Point Framework. The Re-Storying Autism video course and workbook helps learners set aside deficit-based narratives and build something more honest in their place — currently available at a permanently reduced price of £39.99.

For professionals: the Professional Gateway subscription (£25/month or £230/year) gives unlimited access to our full library of neurodivergent-affirming toolkits, all grounded in the Six-Point Framework, plus a dedicated Discord community for practitioners.

For everyone: the NeuroHub Community Space, where neurodivergent people come together to share, learn, and be seen — built on solidarity, not pity.

Explore everything at NeuroHub

Get Involved: Community Journal, Livestreams, and Peer Support

There are several ways you can participate more actively in the NeuroHub community right now:

Submit a post to our Community Journal: we welcome writing from neurodivergent people on their experiences, insights, and perspectives. This is your space.
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Sign up to be a guest on our livestreams: we’re building a programme of new and upcoming livestreams and would love to feature community voices. If you’d like to be considered as a guest, let us know.
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Join our peer support service: peer support with and by neurodivergent people. No gatekeeping, no diagnosis required.
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Recent Blogs, Podcasts, and Substack Articles

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been publishing across the NeuroHub blog and Substack this past month.

On the blog:

Not a Psychopath (Part 1): How Autism, Alexithymia and Trauma Get Misread: David Gray-Hammond and Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms examine why certain combinations of Autistic traits can be misread as psychopathy, and why that misreading causes real harm. A rigorous, accessible, and important piece. Part 2 is coming soon.

The Mycelial Mind Ep. 3 — Is Neuroaffirming Enough?: David and Adele Murray (with community member Holly dropping in) dig into what “neuroaffirming” actually means in practice, whether it can be done badly, and what genuine neurodivergent competence would look like beyond the buzzword.

What Is Epistemic Injustice in Autism? Why Lived Experience Must Lead the Conversation on Autistic Mental Health: The blog post that explains why we hold the Autistic Mental Health Conference, and what epistemic injustice has to do with it.

Embracing Our Autistic Selves: Knowing the Autistic Bodymind: Drawn from Session 4 of the Embracing Our Autistic Selves course, this piece explores the inseparability of Autistic body and mind, sensory knowledge, interoception, and burnout.

On Substack:

The Autistic Mental Health Conference As An Act Of Resistance: Why the conference exists, what makes it politically different, and why accessibility is not a logistical detail but a commitment.

A Six-Point Framework For Neurodivergent-Affirming Care: A full walkthrough of the Six-Point Framework and how it sits at the heart of everything we do.

An Ecology of Experience For Autistic People: A podcast episode on the Ecosystemic Model of Distress, the Autistic rhizome, and mycelial community.

The Ecosystemic Model: Understanding Neurodivergent Experience as an Ecology: A longer read laying out the theoretical and philosophical foundations of the Ecosystemic Model in full.

How Community Gave Me Strength to Find Recovery: David shares a personal piece on sober living and recovery from his personal blog. Well worth a read, and a subscribe.

Support NeuroHub

Everything we do (the community space, the free content, the accessible webinars, the peer support) depends on the support of people who believe in what we’re building.

There are a few ways you can help, and none of them require spending money you don’t have:

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Donate directly: if you’re in a position to contribute financially to our work, you can do so here. Every donation makes a genuine difference to what we’re able to offer.

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Thank you, as always, for being part of this community. It genuinely means everything.

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At NeuroHub Community, we are very assertive about the importance of community connection and the power that comes from learning alongside neurokin. For that reason, we are aiming to hold a free livestream on social media once a fortnight to do just this.

In order to make this work, we need some people who are willing to donate 45-90 minutes to come and be our guests om the livestreams, so if you’re interested, expecially if you have a topic in mind, click the button below to apply to join us and I will get in touch!

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Also, while you’re here, we have another free/”pay what you can afford” event coming up on July 31st at 6.30pm. It is all about surviving the mental health and substance use systems when I was trying to access recovery. You can click below to attend for free or a donation.

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A lived experience presentation by David Gray-Hammond, Founder of NeuroHub Community Ltd.

Addiction in Autistic people is not a moral failing and it is not a mystery. It is what happens when a nervous system that was never designed for this world runs out of other options, and it is what happens when the systems that exist to help consistently refuse to hold the full complexity of a person’s experience.

In this presentation, David Gray-Hammond draws on his own lived experience of addiction, misdiagnosis, and recovery to explore what it actually means to be Autistic and substance-dependent in a healthcare landscape that was not built for either reality simultaneously. He will speak to the structural Catch-22 of mental health and substance use services that each refused to engage until the other had intervened first, to the years spent under a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis that compounded every layer of stigma he was already carrying, and to the consistent institutional denial of his Autistic experience by the professionals he encountered.

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David will also speak honestly about twelve-step programmes — about why a model that works for many people failed to work for him, and about why his wellbeing actively improved when he stopped attending and began connecting with other Autistic people instead. Because what ultimately made recovery possible was not a programme, a protocol, or a professional. It was community. It was finding people who already understood what it meant to be him, and who did not ask him to be anything else.

This session will draw on the ecosystemic model to frame Autistic distress and addiction as products of a mismatch between the Autistic Bodymind and the environments it is asked to inhabit, rather than as deficits located within the individual, and will close with a direct examination of what services, commissioners, and professionals need to change if Autistic people are to have genuine access to recovery.

The presentation runs for 45 minutes and is followed by 20 minutes of open discussion.

This event is suitable for: health and social care professionals, substance use practitioners, mental health workers, commissioners, and anyone with lived experience of addiction or Autistic identity who wants to hear this story told without euphemism.

Content note: This presentation includes personal disclosure around substance use, mental health crisis, misdiagnosis, and institutional harm

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We are intending to have a session 0 with players in order to establish the most effective way of delivering this, and we will be looking to schedule that in the next few days.

Campaign entry will be free to all community members on our All Access Heartbeat community subscription, or £15 a month to everyone else while the campaign is active. This is to ensure that expenses are covered and NeuroHub Community staff can be paid.

If you would like to sign up and take part, click the button below. The description section also has a link to sign up for our Heartbeat community if that is something you wish to do. We hope to see you there!

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Also, make sure to check our new podcast The Mycelial Mind over on our website, new episode coming soon!

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And be sure to check out our intro blog that tells you all of the core things we do for Neurodivergent people!

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Friday 14th – Sunday 16th August 2026 | 10am–6pm BST
Fully online | Optional in-person day on Saturday 15th | in Coldean, Brighton & Hove, UK

Three days. 15+ speakers. One unmissable event.

This year’s theme is Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues; exploring how environments, systems, and societal structures shape neurodivergent wellbeing. And the line-up is extraordinary.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Dr. Nick Walker Professor at CIIS and foundational voice in neurodiversity theory

• David Gray-Hammond & Tanya Adkin presenting The Ecosystemic Model of Distress

• Erin Ekins queer Autistic author and BBC-featured advocate

• Dr. Nathan Keates University of Sunderland researcher in Critical Neurodiversity studies

• Ava McAuley on masking, the Double Empathy Problem, and mental health

• Lawrence Kampf, Karen Parker, Nikki Smith, Ed Shearer, Amber Dawn, Stacy Badon, and many more

Every speaker brings lived experience, research, and a commitment to neurodivergent-led perspectives.

Can’t catch everything live? No problem.

All talks will be recorded and made available to ticket holders, so you can revisit sessions or catch up in your own time. Ticket holders also get exclusive access to an on-demand library of additional pre-recorded talks that couldn’t fit into the packed schedule.

Tickets start from just £50

This conference is for:

• Autistic and neurodivergent people (diagnosed, self-identified, or still figuring it out)

• Parents and families

• Professionals, educators, and support workers

• Advocates and allies

NeuroHub Community paid members receive a 33% discount on all ticket prices; see below the paywall at the bottom of this post to get your discount code.

👉 Get your ticket now

Don’t let two months slip by. This is a conference built by and for neurodivergent people; rooted in lived experience, centred on the neurodivergent paradigm, and designed to leave you with real insight and genuine community.

The conversation is happening. Be part of it.

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And if you want to go deeper, there’s a live webinar, today, on Monday 8th June at 6pm BST. More on that below.

What Is The Six-Point Framework?

The Six-Point Framework takes an ecological approach to Autistic wellbeing; understanding distress not as something located inside an individual, but as the product of nested environments that interact with and respond to one another. It’s non-pathological, practically grounded, and rooted in Autistic-led knowledge.

The six points are:

• Autistic Experience: the theoretical foundations for how Autistic people experience the world

• The Sensory & Emotional Landscape: how Autistic people navigate sensory environments and emotions

• Autistic Burnout: understanding burnout as a crisis of chronic disconnection

• Identity, Language, and Disability Models: how autism is framed, and why that framing matters

• Trauma & Safety: Autistic trauma and what it means to feel safe

• Learning From The Autistic Community: why connecting with Autistic community is central to good support

What You Get

The course includes a full handbook and supporting resources, all grounded in NeuroHub Community’s ecosystemic model of distress and six-point framework. It’s designed for professionals, families, and Autistic people who want a framework that actually reflects the complexity of Autistic lives.

Supporting Autistic People: £9.99

Sign Up

There’s more? The Client Assessment Toolkit For Autism Professionals bundles a complete set of structured HTML assessment and planning tools alongside the course; designed for mentors, support workers, counsellors, and practitioners working one-to-one with Autistic and neurodivergent people.

Course + Toolkit bundle: All Part of The Course

Get Access

Live Webinar: Today, June 8th, 2026 At 6pm BST

If you’d like to explore the framework in a live, interactive session, David is running a webinar this Monday evening. It’s included with the course, so if you’ve already purchased access, you’re in.

Get access and join the webinar:

Join The Webinar

This framework underpins everything we do at NeuroHub — our peer mentoring, our wellbeing work, our training. If you’ve ever wanted to understand the thinking behind our approach, this is the place to start.

The on-demand version of this course will then be bundled with our Professional Gateway subscription for £25 a month or £230 a year, giving you access to hundreds of pounds of professional resources, plus new resources as they are developed and published. You can sign up for the gateway here:

Join The Gateway

With warmth,

David Gray-Hammond

Founder, NeuroHub Community Ltd

neurohubcommunity.org | Click Here To Join Our Online Community Space

And if you want to go deeper, there’s a live webinar on Monday 8th June at 6pm BST. More on that below.

What Is The Six-Point Framework?

The Six-Point Framework takes an ecological approach to Autistic wellbeing; understanding distress not as something located inside an individual, but as the product of nested environments that interact with and respond to one another. It’s non-pathological, practically grounded, and rooted in Autistic-led knowledge.

The six points are:

• Autistic Experience: the theoretical foundations for how Autistic people experience the world

• The Sensory & Emotional Landscape: how Autistic people navigate sensory environments and emotions

• Autistic Burnout: understanding burnout as a crisis of chronic disconnection

• Identity, Language, and Disability Models: how autism is framed, and why that framing matters

• Trauma & Safety: Autistic trauma and what it means to feel safe

• Learning From The Autistic Community: why connecting with Autistic community is central to good support

What You Get

The course includes a full handbook and supporting resources, all grounded in NeuroHub Community’s ecosystemic model of distress and six-point framework. It’s designed for professionals, families, and Autistic people who want a framework that actually reflects the complexity of Autistic lives.

Supporting Autistic People: £9.99

Sign Up

There’s more? The Client Assessment Toolkit For Autism Professionals bundles a complete set of structured HTML assessment and planning tools alongside the course; designed for mentors, support workers, counsellors, and practitioners working one-to-one with Autistic and neurodivergent people.

Course + Toolkit bundle: All Part of The Course

Get Access

Live Webinar: June 8th, 2026 At 6pm BST

If you’d like to explore the framework in a live, interactive session, David is running a webinar this Monday evening. It’s included with the course, so if you’ve already purchased access, you’re in.

Get access and join the webinar:

Join The Webinar

This framework underpins everything we do at NeuroHub — our peer mentoring, our wellbeing work, our training. If you’ve ever wanted to understand the thinking behind our approach, this is the place to start.

The on-demand version of this course will then be bundled with our Professional Gateway subscription for £25 a month or £230 a year, giving you access to hundreds of pounds of professional resources, plus new resources as they are developed and published. You can sign up for the gateway here:

Join The Gateway

With warmth,

David Gray-Hammond

Founder, NeuroHub Community Ltd

neurohubcommunity.org | Click Here To Join Our Online Community Space

And if you want to go deeper, there’s a live webinar on Monday 8th June at 6pm BST. More on that below.

What Is The Six-Point Framework?

The Six-Point Framework takes an ecological approach to Autistic wellbeing; understanding distress not as something located inside an individual, but as the product of nested environments that interact with and respond to one another. It’s non-pathological, practically grounded, and rooted in Autistic-led knowledge.

The six points are:

• Autistic Experience: the theoretical foundations for how Autistic people experience the world

• The Sensory & Emotional Landscape: how Autistic people navigate sensory environments and emotions

• Autistic Burnout: understanding burnout as a crisis of chronic disconnection

• Identity, Language, and Disability Models: how autism is framed, and why that framing matters

• Trauma & Safety: Autistic trauma and what it means to feel safe

• Learning From The Autistic Community: why connecting with Autistic community is central to good support

What You Get

The course includes a full handbook and supporting resources, all grounded in NeuroHub Community’s ecosystemic model of distress and six-point framework. It’s designed for professionals, families, and Autistic people who want a framework that actually reflects the complexity of Autistic lives.

Supporting Autistic People: £9.99

Sign Up

There’s more? The Client Assessment Toolkit For Autism Professionals bundles a complete set of structured HTML assessment and planning tools alongside the course; designed for mentors, support workers, counsellors, and practitioners working one-to-one with Autistic and neurodivergent people.

Course + Toolkit bundle: All Part of The Course

Get Access

Live Webinar: June 8th, 2026 At 6pm BST

If you’d like to explore the framework in a live, interactive session, David is running a webinar this Monday evening. It’s included with the course, so if you’ve already purchased access, you’re in.

Get access and join the webinar:

Join The Webinar

This framework underpins everything we do at NeuroHub — our peer mentoring, our wellbeing work, our training. If you’ve ever wanted to understand the thinking behind our approach, this is the place to start.

The on-demand version of this course will then be bundled with our Professional Gateway subscription for £25 a month or £230 a year, giving you access to hundreds of pounds of professional resources, plus new resources as they are developed and published. You can sign up for the gateway here:

Join The Gateway

With warmth,

David Gray-Hammond

Founder, NeuroHub Community Ltd

neurohubcommunity.org | Click Here To Join Our Online Community Space

Sunday 8th June 2026 | 18:00 BST

What Is This About?

This resource explores the Six-Point Framework that underpins all of NeuroHub Community’s peer mentoring and wellbeing work. Developed by myself, David Gray-Hammond, MCMA from a decade of lived and professional experience, the framework takes a genuinely non-pathological, ecological approach to Autistic wellbeing.

The six points cover:

Autistic Experience: the foundations of how Autistic people experience the world

The Sensory & Emotional Landscape: navigating sensory environments and emotions

Autistic Burnout: understanding burnout as chronic disconnection

Identity, Language & Disability Models: how framing shapes Autistic identity

Trauma & Safety: what it means to feel safe as an Autistic person

Learning From the Autistic Community: why community connection is central to wellbeing

Currently On Sale

The course resource is available right now at a reduced price; grab it ahead of the webinar and come prepared:

Supporting Autistic People | £9.99

Want to go deeper?It also contains the Client Assessment Toolkit For Autism Professionals; a complete set of structured, ready-to-use assessment and planning tools built directly on the Six-Point Framework:

Get the course and join the live webinar

Questions?

You’re welcome to chat with David directly on WhatsApp (+447346808637) or email us at admin@neurohubcommunity.org.

See you on the 8th.

Warm regards, David Gray-Hammond CEO, NeuroHub Community

June is here, and with it comes **Autistic Pride Month** — a time to celebrate who we are, deepen our understanding, and build the community that sustains us. This month is packed with things to read, watch, join, and look forward to.

David Gray-Hammond, CEO, NeuroHub Community Ltd*

FREE EVENT THIS MONTH: Autistic Stim & Glim Party

Thursday 18th June | 4:00pm BST | Online | FREE

To celebrate Autistic Pride, we’re throwing an online **Stim & Glim Party**; a space to stim freely, share your glimmers, and spend time with people who just *get it*. No masking required. No judgment. Just your NeuroKin, celebrating everything that makes us proud to be Autistic.

This event is **completely free** to all members of the NeuroHub Online Community Space. Not a member yet? Grab your free membership and join us! 🎊

RSVP to the Stim & Glim Party

RSVP Here

Big News: A New Book Is Released

I have a new book, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. As many of you know, my writing comes from lived experience; the kind that doesn’t flinch and doesn’t apologise.

This latest title continues that tradition. You can find out more and order using the link below.

Find Out More & Order

View Book

From The Blog This Month

Autism & How To Solve The NEET Problem

25% of young people in the UK are currently classed as NEET — Not in Education, Employment, or Training. David’s latest piece unpacks why undiagnosed Autistic young people are likely a significant and invisible part of that statistic, and what systemic change is desperately needed. It’s a sharp, data-grounded read that speaks directly to lived reality.

Read: Autism & How To Solve The NEET Problem https://neurohubcommunity.org/2026/05/31/autism-solving-the-neet-problem/

The Mycelial Mind Podcast | Episode 1: Beginnings

NeuroHub’s brand new podcast is here. The Mycelial Mind: NeuroKin Conversations explores community, identity, and wellbeing through an ecological lens — grounded in both philosophy and practical application. Episode 1 features David, Helen Edgar, and Adele Murray asking a deceptively simple question: *what is community?*

Give it a listen, and share it with someone who needs it. 🍄

Listen

And don’t forget to listen to our premium podcast episode My Bodymind Is A Warzone on Autistic Storytime With David.

Listen

Courses You Can Enrol In Now

Whether you’re navigating your own neurodivergence or supporting others, our courses are built on a decade of lived experience and community-led knowledge.

Accessing Healthcare for Neurodivergent Adults | £14

A 3-part live course with Q&A, led by David and former nurse Adele Murray. Practical, grounded support for navigating a healthcare system that wasn’t built with us in mind. Live sessions run in July 2026.

Community members access this course for | FREE | even on a free membership.

Enrol

Supporting Autistic People | £27 Now Reduced To £14

A course built on NeuroHub’s Six-Point Framework for Autistic wellbeing; a non-pathological, ecological approach that takes both lived experience and systemic context seriously. Includes a live webinar on 8th June 2026.

Enrol

Autism Diagnosis 101

Everything you need to understand the diagnostic process; the criteria, the emotions, the practicalities, and what to do if you disagree with the outcome. Pre-recorded video lessons launch 24th July 2026.

Enrol

For Professionals: The Professional Gateway

If you work in healthcare, education, social care, therapy, or workplace support, the Professional Gateway Subscription gives you unlimited access to our full library of neurodivergent toolkits and resources, including all future releases, for just £25/month or £230/year.

The library currently includes 15+ resources covering Autistic burnout, substance use, CAMHS, advocacy, psychosis, monotropism, and much more; with a combined individual value well over £300.

Explore The Professional Gateway

Join the NeuroHub Online Community

If you haven’t joined our online community space yet, June is a perfect time to start. It’s where the real conversations happen; peer support, shared resources, early event access, and a 33% discount on conference tickets.

Membership is free to get started, and the community is growing every day.

Join The Community

Save The Date | 2026 Autistic Mental Health Conference

Friday 14th Sunday 16th August 2026 | Online + In-Person (Brighton & Hove)

Our flagship event is three months away and the speaker line-up is already exceptional. This year’s theme is Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues; exploring how environments, systems, and societal structures shape neurodivergent wellbeing.

Confirmed speakers include Dr. Nick Walker, Tanya Adkin, Dr. Nathan Keates, Erin Ekins, and many more. Forty-minute talks, lightning sessions, pre-recorded contributions, and a full in-person day on Saturday with stalls, food, and entertainment in Brighton & Hove.

Tickets from £50.** NeuroHub Community members receive a **33% discount** contact our admin team for your code.

Book Your Place

Support NeuroHub’s Work

NeuroHub exists because of this community. If our work has been useful to you, or to someone you care about, there are a few ways to help us keep growing:

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The book offers realistic and honest information on the effects and risks of drugs, ways to reduce the risk from using them, and common co-occuring conditions in Autistic substance users.

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The Circles of Control: A Neurodivergent Energy & Boundaries Toolkit is a practical resource built specifically for neurodivergent people. Drawing on the familiar circles of control framework, it’s been developed with the specific challenges of Autistic and neurodivergent experience in mind such as energy accounting, and the particular exhaustion that comes from trying to manage things that were never ours to manage in the first place.

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