Shame & Spiral Time
Two one-off courses that can be booked separately or as a bundle.
Brought to you by the originator of Neurodivergent/emergent Spiral Time, Marta Rose
About the Courses:
Neuroqueering Shame in our Creative Lives:
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
12-2pm EST via Zoom
Creating in Spiral Time:
Sunday, May 25th, 2025
12-2pm EST via Zoom
Each course consists of a one-off session. Book separately or as a bundle for a 10% discount.
Facilitated by Marta Rose, author of Neuroemergent Time & Your Neurodivergent Brain on Shame
Neuroqueering Shame in our Creative Lives:
Shame is a powerful political tool used in almost every area of our lives—our families, our schools, our workplaces, even our identities—to wrench us into conformity with the values of industrial-colonial time and compulsory executive functioning. In this workshop, we will look at the ways shame disables us for deviating from neurotypical expectations and norms, and the ways it creates dysfunction in our creative practices. Through creative care invitations, we will examine some of the ways shame shows up and explore how we can disrupt and even transform it, so that it becomes less and less debilitating.
Creating in Spiral Time:
Neurodivergent people are often plagued by a sense that we have “wasted time” and “fallen behind” our peers in terms of productivity and creative accomplishment. If there is any hope for finding a more enjoyable and generative relationship with time, we need new metaphors that defy the contemporary Western ones that have colonized the world. We will explore alternative metaphors and values of slowness, cyclicality, ritual and rest. Through creative care invitations, we will explore the different shapes time might exist for us, and how we might inhabit time differently.
Tickets for one course are $20 USD
Book both Shame & Spiral Time together for $36 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 2nd! To get updates and reminders make sure you Register Your Interest.
No refunds will be offered for this course (unless it is cancelled). Can't attend live? The event 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.