exploring neurodiverity
through the Eight Tensions®
Exploring neurodiversity through the Eight Tensions®
Saturday 10th October, 9.30am-3.30pm online
Are you looking to enhance your coaching or therapeutic practice and would like to learn to more about neuro differences?
This Autumn, join Cara Langford Watts and Dr Natalie Lancer for a one-day, online course:
Exploring neurodiversity through the Eight Tensions®.
In this course, we explore neuro differences within a human experience and psychological model of the Eight Tensions® . This course will teach you how to support your clients to explore their neuro differences within the Eight Tensions Framework® as a way to make sense and meaning of their experience and to be confident in making future decisions.
You will learn how to help your clients explore issues such as shame, guilt, procrastination, masking, perfectionism, the double empathy problem, rejection sensitivity, executive function, overwhelm and burn out. We will highlight potential techniques and approaches drawing on the Power Threat Meaning Framework, DBT, ACT and narrative coaching to support and enhance your clients’ lives.
Please note, it is a requirement to complete the Eight Tensions® Coach Training first, prior to this course, which is next running in September 2026 (see https://natalielancer.com/eight-tensions-coach-training/).
Contact Natalie for more information: natalie@natalielancer.com
Your Course Leaders:
DR NATALIE LANCER CPsychol
Chartered Coaching Psychologist
Dr Natalie Lancer is a British Psychological Society RAPPS registered supervisor, a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, a Trustee of the British Psychological Society and Former Chair of the Division of Coaching Psychology.
Her research focusses on coaches’ and coaching supervisors’ identity and the impact of coaching supervision on supervisees. She coaches doctoral students, helping them get to the finish line of their studies in good psychological health and she supervises coaches, coaching psychologists and supervisors emphasising the meaning practitioners derive from their work.
Natalie is a Master’s and PhD supervisor at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. In 2016, she co-authored Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring with David Clutterbuck. She runs a variety of coaching and supervision training programmes with an existential psychological underpinning for practitioners and is a regular keynote speaker.
CARA LANGFORD WATTS
Coaching Psychologist
Cara is a Coaching Psychologist, coach supervisor, trainer, and founder of Neuro Directions. With lived experience of ADHD and dyslexia, she has spent many years supporting neurodifferent individuals, professionals, and organisations through coaching, supervision, training, and consultancy.
Her work combines evidence-based coaching psychology with neuro-affirmative, strengths-based approaches, helping clients better understand themselves, navigate challenges, and thrive within the contexts of their lives. She has particular expertise in areas such as masking, rejection sensitivity, perfectionism, executive functioning, emotional regulation, identity, and self-acceptance.
Her Master’s research explored autistic women’s experiences of workplace coaching, offering original insights into ableist power dynamics and the importance of creating coaching approaches that genuinely reflect neurodifferent experiences. Alongside her professional practice, she is currently completing a PhD and regularly presents on topics relating to neurodivergence, inclusion, coaching psychology, and systemic change.
Cara brings together academic knowledge, professional expertise, and lived experience to create engaging learning experiences that help coaches support neurodifferent clients with greater confidence, curiosity, and compassion.
The Coaching Psychology Pod
This podcast is brought to you by the Division of Coaching Psychology, part of the British Psychological Society. We unpack Coaching Psychology and will help you take a thoughtful and considered approach to your coaching practice.
Over the last three years, host, Dr Natalie Lancer, Chartered Coaching Psychologist and Former Chair of the Division of Coaching Psychology, facilitated conversations with a panel of selected experts where we talk about specialised coaching topics that will directly impact your work as a coach.
As you are listening, to find out more, head to the Division of Coaching Psychology’s webpage on the British Psychological Society’s website.
We would love to hear your thoughts and reflections on the podcast. Please email us at natalie@natalielancer.com
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Say Hello!
You can always directly email me on natalie@natalielancer.com