Ripple Framework of Neurodivergent Flourishing: Supervision Program

 

A shared agreement for safety, autonomy, and accessibility

 

This community exists to support learning, reflection, and connection in ways that honour neurodivergent bodies, minds, and lived experiences. These guidelines are shared agreements designed to create enough safety for difference to exist.

 

You are invited to engage in ways that support your nervous system, your capacity, and your autonomy.

 

This is a living agreement. It may evolve as we do.

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1. Safety Is Relational

 

We understand safety as something co-created and responsive, not guaranteed or uniform.

• You are encouraged to notice and honour your own signals of comfort and discomfort.

• If something feels activating, you are welcome to pause, step away, or seek external support without explanation.

 

2. Autonomy Is Central

 

You are the expert on your own experience.

• You choose how, when, and whether you participate.

• Sharing is always optional. Silence, listening, or observation are valid forms of engagement.

 

3. Accessibility Is an Ongoing Practice

 

Accessibility is not a checklist. It is something we keep returning to together.

• Different communication styles are welcome, including pauses, scripting, metaphor, limited verbal participation, or asynchronous engagement.

• You are invited to ask for what you need, knowing that not all needs can always be met, but all can be respected.

 

4. Respect Lived Experience as Knowledge

 

Lived experience is a legitimate and valuable source of insight.

• Speak from your own experience rather than generalising about others.

• Avoid interpreting or explaining someone else’s inner world.

• Multiple truths can coexist, even when they differ or feel uncomfortable.

 

5. Move at Nervous-System Pace

 

Urgency is not a requirement for learning or belonging.

• You are encouraged to take breaks, regulate, stim, move, or step away as needed.

• Fast responses are not more valued than slower considered ones.

• You do not need to “keep up” to be welcome.

 

6. Engage with Care and Curiosity

 

When responding to others:

• Prioritise curiosity over correction.

• Ask before offering advice, resources, interpretations, feedback, or strategies.

• Notice power dynamics, especially around expertise, identity, and lived experience.

 

If harm occurs, we aim for repair.

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7. We Hold Accountability with Humanity

 

If guidelines are breached:

• We prioritise dialogue, reflection, and repair where possible.

• Harm is addressed with care for impact, not just intent.

• Repeated or serious harm may require clearer boundaries to protect the community or removal from the community.

 

8. Confidentiality Supports Trust

 

People may share reflections, questions, lived experiences, and professional tensions that deserve care.

• Please do not share another participant’s personal stories, comments, identifying details, or reflections outside this space without their explicit consent.

• What is shared in the community should be treated with respect, care, and discretion.

 

9. Protect Client and Workplace Confidentiality

 

This community may include discussion of practice, supervision, systems, and professional experiences. Please take care when sharing examples.

• Do not share identifying client information.

• Avoid naming workplaces, colleagues, managers, or organisations in ways that could identify others.

• Keep examples broad, de-identified, and focused on your own learning or reflection.

• Do not share confidential organisational information, internal documents, or private correspondence.

 

10. Difference Is Welcome. Discrimination Is Not.

 

This space honours neurodivergence, disability, queerness, cultural difference and the many intersecting identities people bring.

• Discriminatory, dehumanising, or pathologising language or behaviour is not tolerated.

• This includes ableism, sanism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of systemic harm.

• We recognise that people are learning, and we also take impact seriously.

• Participants are encouraged to remain open to reflection when harm is named.

• No one is expected to educate others about their identity, oppression, or lived experience.

 

11. Facilitation and Moderation

 

This space will be gently facilitated to support safety, accessibility, and shared responsibility.

• Facilitators may pause, redirect, or close a discussion if it becomes unsafe or outside the scope of the program.

• Serious or repeated breaches of the community guidelines may result in removal from the community or live spaces.

• Facilitation decisions will be guided by care for the whole group.

 

12. Recordings, Screenshots, and AI Tools

 

To protect privacy and consent:

• Please do not record sessions, take screenshots of participants, or copy community discussions without explicit permission.

• Please do not upload other participants’ comments, stories, images, voices, or identifying details into AI tools or external platforms.

 

13. Communication and Response Expectations

 

This community is not designed for immediate response or crisis support.

• Facilitators and participants are not expected to reply to these requests. 

• Any requests of this nature in the community space will be deleted. 

• Any contact with facilitators of this nature will be redirected to the external supports.