Human Rights Night walk! It was very special. 35 of us walked for over 7 hours traversing London's streets taking in some of the capital's most significant human rights spots. We lit candles together, swapped stories, heard poetry and offered each other much needed encouragement at times as dawn approached. And we've raised plenty of funds - nearly 6k for the museum's essential work to support the community! Check them out here: https://museumofhomelessness.org/

Welcome @Mzwandile Manto , Manto will be holding the pilgrimage space for the next 42 Days starting Monday. Straight into the deep end !!! I love it.... ❤️ Click the link in the Calendar to join. All sessions are recorded and transcribed. @Gwen Podbrey @Rabson Banda @Charlie Morrison @Tia Boulton @Emma Buttriss @roselle Gowan @Paulo Pinto @Garth Rogers @Marcus Ward @Ruth Lilleker @Bruno Tumusiime @Michaela Collins FYI Manto has offered to be a trustee for the U-ACT PBO in SA and will be drafting a concept note for the Master's Programme. We will start Monday with Spritual Principles. Let's bring some love and the power of the ancestors into our space. Remember that this container is about Training Coaches. The We-Do container is about Treatment . I am wanting to build capacity here so that we have. SOLID ONLINE TREATMENT CONTAINER in We-Do. #Ubuntu Why won't this let me tag Doris , Roselle, Ocean !!!!

After our fantastic session yesterday we should all have permanent permission to do what we need to do to make the world a better place. Let’s go be brilliant!!

Giraffes, Snakes, and What ADHD Conversations Can Actually Sound Like People massively underestimate what ADHD conversations actually are. Not because the people having them aren’t intelligent. Because the intelligence does not always arrive looking respectable. It does not always sound polished. Or measured. Or particularly sensible. Sometimes it arrives disguised as complete nonsense. This actually started because I saw a picture of a giraffe and immediately found myself wondering whether giraffe vomit would be properly projectile or whether it would just sort of… dribble. And because my brain apparently refuses to suffer alone, I text one of my longest-standing friends — we’ve been friends for about 33 years — because I knew she would not only understand the thought, but fully commit to investigating it with me. Now, to most people, that probably sounds like two women talking absolute shite. And to be fair… it IS absolute shite. But underneath the nonsense, something else is happening entirely. Pattern recognition. Associative thinking. Creative linking. Rapid-fire conceptual building. One stupid thought lands. Then another attaches itself. Then another. Then suddenly the conversation is moving at a speed that makes complete sense to the people inside it while looking utterly ridiculous to anybody outside it. That’s the bit people miss. Because ADHD conversations often sound disorganised externally while something incredibly fast is happening underneath them. The brain is: testing, connecting, building, pivoting, cross-referencing, challenging, expanding. Not neatly. Not linearly. But intelligently. That matters, because a lot of neurodivergent people grow up being told they are distracted, off-topic, too much, dramatic, not focused enough, or somehow less capable than they actually are. When really, some of them are thinking so quickly that conventional conversation cannot always hold the shape of it. And that is not the same thing as being unintelligent.

The marshmallow test got mentioned today and my brain instantly went to ADHD before addiction was even brought into the conversation. But the second addiction and later life outcomes got mentioned as well, that was it really. Because ADHD already has such a heavily documented relationship with: dopamine dysregulation, impulsivity, reward seeking, novelty seeking, emotional regulation difficulties, addiction vulnerability, masking, shame, burnout, and chronic nervous-system strain. So my immediate thought was not: “some children could wait and some could not.” It was: “Hang on… was ADHD ever meaningfully accounted for in any of this?” Because if later outcomes from delayed gratification studies showed links with addiction vulnerability, impulsivity and long-term behavioural outcomes, then surely somebody at some point had to ask what was actually happening underneath the behaviour itself. Because I do not think waiting is neurologically equal for everybody. And I do not think impulsivity is anywhere near as simple as people often reduce it down to either. If somebody already struggles with: dopamine regulation, understimulation, emotional overwhelm, restlessness, internal discomfort, or the exhausting effort of constant self-regulation… then immediate reward may not simply feel enjoyable. It may feel relieving. And I think that distinction matters massively. Particularly when later research around the marshmallow test itself apparently started questioning whether it was ever purely measuring self-control in the first place. Because suddenly things like: trust, stress, environment, predictability, and whether the child genuinely believed waiting would safely result in reward… all started entering the conversation too. Which honestly changes the entire feel of the study. Because now the question is no longer just: “Who had good self-control?” It also becomes: “What was each nervous system actually experiencing in that moment?” And the more I sat with it, the more my brain kept widening the question out further.