Date: 4th July 2024
Time: 19:00 – 20:30 
Location: Online

Barney Angliss who will deliver a talk entitled Breaking My Silence: How I Came to Advocate For Myself.

Barney will cover:

  • how I came to be silent on some things and what that feels like
  • how I found a voice, once, twice and three times
  • what I learned from psychotherapy
  • how I broke free
  • the difference between emotions and mental states
  • the role of self-narratives
  • why your good is your bad and vice versa
  • cognitive dissonance and how ‘new information’ leads to change
  • leaving and arriving – you may not need someone else to advocate for you but you may need them to tell you when to do it

Followed by a Q & A with the audience.

The content of this talk is suitable for all to attend but is designed for an adult audience in terms of delivery.

About Barney Angliss
Barney is  a consultant and trainer in education, now retired from classroom teaching but still working with children, teenagers and adults on a variety of challenges which they face.  Barney became interested in self-advocacy about ten years ago, some time later being diagnosed with autism; but already having had a lifetime’s experience of health care, both for physical and mental health needs from childhood onwards. Barney is  motivated by doing things not before experienced and using intuition to find belonging.

The Centre for Autism Wellbeing Hub
The Wellbeing Hub is a new initiative, funded by University of Reading Alumni. The aim of the Hub is to bring together autistic people, their families, practitioners and researchers to co-produce and deliver neurodiversity-affirming activities that support autistic young people and their families to thrive and flourish.

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