About
When emotions become overwhelming, words disappear, or relationships get caught in conflict, shutdown and misunderstanding, it can be difficult to know what will help.
Finding My Steady With Glad We Talked® is a five-module, self-paced programme using creativity and practical brain–body tools to help you recognise nervous-system signals, understand behaviour and communicate your needs.
Understanding Begins Before the Perfect Words
The central learning remains the same. The examples, activities and practical tools are adapted for different communities.
Different people may enter from different starting points, but the shared aim is greater understanding, less shame and stronger communication. Explore the program lens
One Programme. Different Lenses.
At the heart of our programme: one core five-module programme that can be explored through different lenses.
Understanding Before Judgement
OUR APPROACH
Behaviour can offer clues about what is happening within a person’s nervous system. Instead of beginning with “How do we stop this behaviour?”, Glad We Talked® encourages a different set of questions:
- What might be happening underneath?
- What is behaviour and the body trying to communicate?
- What could help them feel safe enough, understood and supported?
Our approach is nervous-system-first, neuroinclusive and informed by Creative Health. It is not about fixing people or teaching them to hide their differences. It is about making experiences easier to understand and creating more choice in what happens next.
Not sure where to begin?
FIND YOUR START
Answer a few short questions and we’ll suggest resources and support that may fit what you need.
Created by Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
Glad We Talked® was founded by Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar, a BACP-accredited counsellor and psychotherapist, Creative Health Practitioner and multidisciplinary artist. Yasmin’s work brings together professional knowledge and lived experience of neurodivergence. She created Glad We Talked® from a belief that people should not need a diagnosis, the perfect words or the ability to explain everything before they can begin to understand themselves and feel supported.
Reimagining Neurodivergent Support
PART OF WATOTO PLAY
Glad We Talked® is part of Watoto Play Ltd, a UK company reimagining neurodivergent support through Creative Health and digital innovation.
Watoto Play develops programmes, practical resources and creative experiences that make emotional and nervous-system understanding more accessible in everyday life.
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