One Small Space
Let Marta Rose support you in tackling many of the issues faced when attempting to design spaces that work for neurodivergent lives.
About the Course:
Mondays June 23rd & 30th, July 14th & 21st
1-3pm EST via Zoom
and
Sundays July 6th & 27th
11-3pm EST via Zoom
This course consists of four Monday sessions presented by Marta & two longer body-doubling and support sessions on the Sundays.
Facilitated by Marta Rose, author of Getting Started is the Hardest Part, Neuroemergent Time & Your Neurodivergent Brain on Shame
Designing our homes to accommodate and celebrate our unmasked neurodivergent selves is life changing—but also incredibly daunting. We are often bogged down by shame, limited bandwidth, and financial constraints. It can also be so difficult to know where to get started, to come up with a design that really works, and then actually follow through. In this course, we will tackle so many of those issues by focusing on one small space. Not even, necessarily, a whole room. You might choose the desk where you work or make art, or the bed where you spend most of your days wishing you could do creative work if chronic illness didn’t sap your strength and spoons. You might choose one kitchen cabinet that would make food prep easier if you could just find what you need, or a closet that would make your clothes actually accessible to you. You will be urged—strongly—not to take on too much, so that you can identify some small subset of your needs and get really creative about designing a space you can sustainably maintain. We will examine the ways shame and the “shoulds” of convention interfere with how we imagine and design our spaces; we will share and workshop our design ideas; and we will spend long body doubling sessions actually working together on our spaces.
All Tickets are $100 USD
There are a limited number of free places available for those on low or no income. Please only select this option if you are unable to afford the General Admission cost.
Tickets on sale from May 30th! To get updates and reminders make sure you Register Your Interest.
No refunds will be made after 14 days before the course start date (unless it is cancelled). Can't attend live? The Monday sessions will be recorded and shared with all ticket holders.
About the Facilitator
Marta Rose is a queer AuDHD writer and artist. Her work offers critical insights and healing metaphors for reframing the ways we understand neurodivergence. She founded and directs Divergent Design Studios, an online community offering body doubling, workshops, and peer support for neurodivergent creatives. She writes a weekly(ish) substack newsletter called The Spiral Lab, and has published several ebooks, including Neuroemergent Time: Making Time Make Sense for ADHD and Autistic People and Getting Started is the Hardest Part. Her work has been cited by Dr. Devon Price in Unmasking Autism, by Ellie Middleton in How to be You, by Rebecca Schiller in A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, and by Jesse Meadows in the Sluggish newsletter, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. She has two grown neurodivergent children and lives in Philadelphia, on the land of the Lenni Lenape people, with her partner.