Neuroinclusion is not a single workshop or a one-off training day. It’s a sequence of listening, supporting, and embedding.
The Spark Pathway helps organisations move through that sequence with clarity and confidence. It’s flexible enough for schools, charities, employers, and government partners, but structured enough to measure real change.
Every journey starts with a conversation. We don’t assume the solution is training. Instead, we look at your people, systems, communication, risk, and leadership.
Our intake is needs-led and multidisciplinary, involving advocates, social workers, educators, and researchers who work together to understand what is really needed, not just what is requested. This process ensures that any intervention is proportionate, ethical, and aligned with your goals.
If you want to start small, you can use Access the Expert at £195 (or 3 sessions for £495 + VAT). It’s the simplest way to meet our team, discuss a live challenge, and get clear recommendations before moving forward.
Awareness is the foundation of inclusion. Through lived-experience talks, workshops, and senior team sessions, Spark builds shared language and empathy across teams.
We focus on practical understanding: what neurodiversity means in the real world, how it connects with trauma, and how small shifts in culture can make big differences. Our Awareness sessions are engaging, reflective, and tailored to each sector.
They’re designed to spark curiosity, not overwhelm. Each session helps teams listen, relate, and act with understanding.
Support is where empathy turns into structure. This stage introduces Spark’s dual model: a NeuroInclusion Advocate working alongside a Social Worker. It’s what makes Spark unique in Northern Ireland.
Together, they offer early, trauma-informed intervention that helps organisations navigate challenges before they become crises. Whether it’s supporting an employee, advising on policy, or mediating sensitive issues, our support is relational, reflective, and grounded in lived experience and safeguarding.
You can access this stage through our Starter, Core, or Embedded packages, or after a Mini Inclusion review.
Embedding is where inclusion becomes culture. This stage focuses on leadership, policy, supervision, and reflective practice. We help organisations put neuroinclusion into their structures so that it lasts beyond a single person or project.
Embedding also includes measurement: tracking progress through Strengthscope (delivered with Paula Donnan) and ongoing evaluation through the Spark Research Hub, led by Professor April Hargreaves in partnership with ICEP Europe.
This is where inclusion becomes visible, measurable, and sustainable.
Once the model is working, Spark can help you grow your impact. We support organisations to co-design inclusion programmes, commission research, and strengthen leadership capacity.
Through our network of researchers, educators, and partners, we can help you expand inclusion into new areas such as STEM, education, and community wellbeing.
This is where neuroinclusion becomes not just a value, but an advantage.
The Advocate brings lived-experience insight; the Social Worker provides professional safeguarding. Together, they ensure inclusion is both compassionate and accountable.
Advocates build trust. Social Workers protect it.
Every Spark partnership should be informed by evidence from our Research Hub, led by Professor April Hargreaves. This ensures that inclusion work is measurable, ethical, and aligned with the needs of the neurodivergent community.
Neuroinclusion is not a checklist — it’s a pathway.
The three-stage Pathway (Awareness → Support → Embedding)
Northern Ireland is moving towards a needs-led, multidisciplinary way of working. Public bodies such as the Education Authority and the Belfast Trust are reshaping how support is delivered.
Your CSR journey is important. Our multidisciplinary needs-led model connects lived experience, social work, research, professional services, and education so organisations can adapt with confidence.
We don’t just deliver inclusion. We help build the systems that make it last.
Ready to begin your pathway?
Book a discovery call and we’ll match you with the right Spark team for your organisation’s needs.
