Awareness Sessions
We are holding, jointly with the Beds, Essex and Herts (BEH) District, a series of Zoom EDI awareness sessions. The first one was Revd Andrew Brazier, BEH EDI Officer, in conversation with members of the Norwich Deaf Church. The recording can be found on the Deaf Community page (towards the bottom of the page) of this website.
An inter-faith Zoom session was held on 23rd June 2025 with Revd Andrew Brazier (BEH EDI Officer) in conversation with Nahid Saiyed, a Muslim.
This is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/gwqKY2duuQE
A Neurodiversity Awareness session, led Revd Jonny Bell, was held on Tuesday 6th August 2024.
Links are given below to useful resources from the day:-
- A recording of the session
- The PowerPoint for the session
- The poem that was read (All Are Welcome)
- Examples of things that churches can do
- Some further reading on neurodiversity
In June 2025 Revd Jonny Bell ran a follow up neurodivergent workshop designed for people who are neurodivergent and work in the Methodist Church in some capacity to collaborate and create ideas in how to support one another.
The following document was created collectively by those who attended. It contains a section about "reasonable adjustments" followed by four sections with strategies neurodivergent people may be able to use in their context.
Neurodiversity Resource Pack (pdf)
Neurodiversity Resource Pack (Word)