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Futures-thinking conversation w/ celebrated authors & self-advocates on cohousing, mental health, and divergent minds.

About this Event

How do human beings create space for one another? How have “mental health” and “inner life” been neglected from the conversation on diversity? And finally, how do proudly “disordered” people create living environments on their own terms?

In this futures-thinking discussion between celebrated authors and self-advocates, the conversation gets real. We’ll hear from poet Chris Martin, cofounder of  Unrestricted Interest who has ADHD and helps nonspeaking autistic adults express themselves through poetry. We’ll hear from Meghana Junnuru, a passionate nonspeaking autistic poet who is launching a neurodiversity-focused cohousing community in the Midwest. And we’ll hear from Courtney Martin, a celebrated author based in Oakland whose books, On Being columns and TED Talks celebrate the power of vulnerability in cohousing, racial justice work and changing the conversation of “the good life” in America today. 

And finally, the event is hosted by neurodivergent author Jenara Nerenberg, of Divergent Mind, whose work on neurodiversity, mental health, scientific research and pop culture appears at Garrison Institute, UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution, Fast Company, KQED and elsewhere. 

This event is not to be missed and is a rare confluence of leading thinkers in the areas of housing, civil rights, the arts, and neuroscience.

Likely to fill fast, please book your tickets online as tickets will likely no longer be available at the door.

The Center SF

May 2nd, 2020

6:30pm