Workshop Overview

In this experiential and theory-rich workshop, we will explore Context Blindness—a powerful lens for understanding how awareness narrows in neurodiverse experience—and how this narrowing can appear both psychologically and existentially.

Designed specifically for therapists who work with neurodiversity and who may be neurodiverse themselves, this offering reinterprets context blindness not as a deficit, but as an innocent and universal function of consciousness.

We’ll explore both vertical and horizontal context blindness, and how understanding these patterns can help us better support ourselves and others with compassion, clarity, and depth.

What You'll Learn

🔷 Vertical Context Blindness

The existential narrowing of awareness in moments of emotional charge or identification.

• Learn how Beingness—our natural state of open, inclusive awareness—can appear to "collapse" into a limited identity.

• Explore how emotional intensity (fear, shame, desire, grief) narrows perception, veiling the broader context of our true nature.

• Understand how trauma, conditioning, and neurodiverse processing can intensify this narrowing, leading to overwhelming identification with thought or feeling.

• Discover how this phenomenon, though deeply personal in appearance, is actually a universal and impersonal movement within awareness itself.

• Experience practices that help soften the grip of identification and restore awareness of the full context of being.

🔷 Horizontal Context Blindness

The cognitive tendency to miss environmental, emotional, or social cues—especially in autism and psychosis.

• Based on the pioneering work of Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, we’ll explore how horizontal context blindness manifests in individuals on the neurodivergent spectrum.

• Understand how literal thinking, fragmented perception, and difficulties in perspective-taking may arise from the brain’s struggle to hold multiple contextual layers at once.

• Identify how this form of context blindness differs from, yet often intertwines with, vertical context narrowing—creating complex inner landscapes for neurodiverse clients.

• Learn supportive therapeutic strategies that help clients integrate missing context and increase emotional safety.

Who This Is For

• Therapists, counsellors, and practitioners working with autism, ADHD, complex trauma, and psychosis.

• Neurodiverse professionals seeking a deeper, non-pathologising understanding of their own inner experience.

• Anyone drawn to a spiritual and psychological integration of awareness, emotion, and neurodiversity.

What You’ll Receive

🌀 A 3-hour live Zoom session with teaching, discussion, and guided inquiry
📘 A free downloadable PDF workbook to deepen your understanding and support your client work
🎥 Access to the recording for 30 days after the event
🫶 A safe, respectful space that honours all forms of neurodiversity and lived experience

Why This Matters

Understanding context blindness—not as a flaw but as a function of consciousness—can radically shift the therapeutic space from one of fixing to one of seeing.

It reminds us that awareness never truly forgets itself, even in the midst of confusion. And that supporting someone to remember their wholeness is less about changing them, and more about meeting them in their full, beautiful complexity.

With love,
Freyja