Tag: cavendish space
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Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget
Design for nervous systems, not aesthetics. What Is Cavendish Space? Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. Cavendish Space – Stimpunks Foundation Cavendish Space is a regulation-centered learning environment built around three spatial archetypes: Our advocacy for Cavendish Space and caves, campfires, and…
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Changelog: For an autistic person it’s about finding the right niche
For an autistic person ‘it’s about finding the right niche’, because ‘if you have a particular interest, you can really thrive in a particular niche.’ Happier on the outside? Discourses of exclusion, disempowerment and belonging from former autistic school staff We updated “Niche Construction”, “Cavendish Space”, and “⛺️🔥 Cavendish Space: Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes…
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Exceeding Least Restrictive Environment with Niche Construction and the Honor of Legibility
UDL creates a learning environment that is the least restrictive and most culturally responsive, trauma-informed environment for all students .If Equity is a Priority, UDL is a Must | Cult of Pedagogy In our little community of neurodivergent and disabled people, we try to go beyond “least restrictive environment” via “niche construction”. Here’s how we…
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This Is My Space: Collaborative Niche Construction in Psychologically Safe Space
This is my space. It allows me to have control over one small part of a traumatic and offensive world. AuDHD and me: My nesting habits – Emergent Divergence I love that quote from David Gray-Hammond at Emergent Divergence. It nicely distills our Cavendish Space and collaborative niche construction advocacy. I added the quote to…
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Five Ways to Welcome All Bodyminds to Your Learning Event
We have detailed accessibility checklists and recommendations in our course “Enable Dignity: The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual“, but for this piece we reduce down to five things you can learn and do to welcome all bodyminds to your learning event. We Stimpunks really appreciate when the recommendations above and the access…
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The Neurodivergent Experience in Josephmooon’s “So Far So Good”
Our own Ronan released an album. Ronan is lyricist for Josephmooon. You can read the story of their distributed collaboration on their blog: josephmooon explained more backstory “How to write a song” Mooonmemories These songs resonate with my autistic, bipolar, and disabled life. I’m super excited to add them to my favorite playlist, Chronic Neurodivergent…