Training & Workshops

Fish in a Tree's training and workshop offerings are built on the Neurodiversity Justice™ framework, a structural paradigm developed by Bridgette Hamstead that moves institutions well beyond awareness, accommodation, and performative inclusion. These are not general neurodiversity sensitivity sessions. They are rigorous, framework-grounded engagements designed to help teams and institutions understand why accommodation-as-exception-making fails, and what it looks like to redesign systems from the ground up.

All training is facilitated by Bridgette Hamstead directly and delivered through the Neurodiversity Justice™ paradigm. Custom presentations are available and will be scoped to your organization's specific context and goals.

Available Training and Workshop Formats

Neurodiversity Justice 101

This foundational training introduces participants to the Neurodiversity Justice™ framework and its core distinctions from awareness, inclusion, and accommodation models. It is designed for organizations that are ready to move past the basics and engage seriously with what structural change requires. Available as a two-hour session ($5,000), a half-day expanded format up to four hours ($6,500), or a full-day intensive with breakout application ($10,000). Available virtually or in person.

Building Neurodiversity-Affirming Institutions

This training goes deeper into the structural work, with a focus on policy redesign, evaluation systems, hiring and assessment practices, and institutional definitions of professionalism and productivity. This is the engagement for organizations ready to audit and restructure, not just reflect. Available as a two-hour session ($5,000), a half-day format ($7,500), or a full-day intensive that includes pre-work and follow-up materials ($12,000).

Neurodiversity Justice in the Workplace

This session examines what it actually takes to move beyond accommodation requests and legal compliance minimums. Participants engage with the structural dimensions of hiring, performance evaluation, communication norms, and workplace culture through the Neurodiversity Justice™ framework, and leave with a clearer understanding of what redesign requires at the institutional level. Two hours, $5,000.

Neurodivergent Leadership and Management

Designed for managers, supervisors, and organizational leaders, this session examines how dominant frameworks of professionalism, productivity, and leadership systematically exclude neurodivergent employees. It challenges participants to interrogate the assumptions embedded in their management practices and builds toward framework-grounded alternatives. Two hours, $5,000.

Hiring and Retention Through a Neurodiversity Justice Lens

This session offers a structural analysis of where hiring pipelines, interview processes, onboarding systems, and retention practices fail neurodivergent candidates and employees. It is designed for organizations that want to move from good intentions to institutional accountability, with concrete redesign guidance grounded in the Neurodiversity Justice™ framework. Two hours, $5,000.

Neurodiversity Justice for HR and People Operations

Built specifically for HR professionals and people operations teams, this session addresses policy language, accommodation processes, conflict resolution, and the fundamental difference between compliance and justice. Participants leave with a framework for evaluating and redesigning the systems they are responsible for maintaining. Two hours, $5,000.

Neurodiversity Justice in Higher Education

For colleges, universities, and academic institutions, this session examines how core academic structures, including grading systems, attendance policies, advising relationships, and credentialing processes, are built on neurotypical assumptions that actively exclude neurodivergent students and faculty. It makes the case for genuine institutional redesign rather than individualized accommodation. Two hours, $5,000.

Accessible Communication and Meeting Culture

This session addresses the structural dimensions of how institutions communicate, internally and externally. It examines meeting formats, written communication norms, response time expectations, and information architecture through a Neurodiversity Justice™ lens, and provides a framework for redesigning communication systems that work for neurodivergent and neurotypical people alike. Two hours, $5,000.

Conference Accessibility Design Training

Designed for event organizers and conference teams, this session addresses the structural and practical dimensions of building neurodivergent-accessible events, from sensory environment and scheduling to communication design and participant support. Two hours, $5,000.

Custom Presentations

Custom training engagements are available from $5,000 and require a minimum of two hours. All custom presentations are delivered through the Neurodiversity Justice™ framework. Contact us to discuss scope.

Booking and Inquiry

Training and workshop engagements book six to eight weeks in advance. High-demand periods (September through November and January through April) book significantly earlier. To inquire, please send a request to bridgette@fishinatreeglobal.org that includes the nature of your engagement, your organization type and size, your proposed date or date range, and your budget. Inquiries that do not include this information may not receive a response.

Equity pricing is available on a limited basis for small community organizations with demonstrated resource constraints. Corporate, for-profit, government, and public sector organizations are billed at published rates. Custom pricing available upon request.