Diversity lounge UK

08/09/2026

🏳️‍🌈Basildon Pride 2026! 🏳️‍🌈

Last Saturday, we had the pleasure of attending Basildon Pride 2026 and what an amazing day it was!

It was so lovely to meet and interact with so many wonderful people throughout the day. We really enjoyed chatting with everyone, hearing your stories, and seeing all the incredible creativity that went into everyone’s flags, outfits and designs! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✨

A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello and spend some time with us. Your support and the conversations we had made the day really special. 💜

We’re so proud to have been part of such a welcoming and colourful celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community. 🌈

Thank you, Basildon Pride — we hope to see you all again next year! 🏳️‍🌈💜

14/08/2026

🌈 We’re excited to be supporting Basildon Pride Festival 2026! 🌈

We’re proud to be part of this fantastic event organised by Basildon Pride, celebrating our local LGBTQIA+ community and promoting inclusion, visibility, and support for everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

📅 Saturday 5th September 2026
📍 Basildon Sporting Village 💜
🎉 FREE ENTRY

As a queer-run company, supporting and celebrating our community is something that means a huge amount to us. We’re looking forward to attending, connecting with others, and celebrating pride together 💜

A huge thank you to Basildon Pride for organising this amazing event — we can’t wait to be there! ✨

Diversity Lounge Ltd

07/08/2026

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30/06/2026

The person is always greater than the framework used to understand them.

01/06/2026

🌈 Pride Is Every Day 🌈

At our core, we believe that everyone deserves a safe, affirming space to be fully and unapologetically themselves.

Pride is deeply important to us—not only because we support the LGBTQI+ community, but because we are an active part of it. Our work is built on lived experience, understanding, acceptance, and a commitment to creating inclusive spaces where people feel seen, valued, and empowered.

In a world that can often feel challenging and uncertain, celebrating Pride is more important than ever. It is a time to honour individuality, embrace diversity, and stand together as a community. Pride reminds us that authenticity, visibility, and belonging matter every day of the year.

We’re excited to celebrate with our community throughout Pride season:

📍 Bailsdon Pride – 5th September
Come and visit us at our stall, meet the team, and learn more about the support we offer.

📍 Fiserv Pride Event – 24th June
We’ll also have a small stall at Fiserv’s Pride event and look forward to connecting with attendees.

Thank you to everyone who continues to champion inclusion, equality, and acceptance. Together, we can create spaces where everyone feels safe to be themselves.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️

11/05/2026

2-Day Face to Face CPD: Working with Neurodivergence: An Appreciation for Difference

£75 Student counsellors
£100 Qualified counsellors

Dates:
🗓 16th & 30th (this month)
OR
🗓 June 27th & July 11th

Benfleet Essex

We’re running our next 2-day CPD for counsellors and therapists focused on deepening confidence and competence in working with neurodivergent clients — and we still have a few spaces left on the upcoming 16th & 30th dates.

This training is for practitioners who want to:
Move beyond labels and into meaningful understanding
Work more confidently with clients presentations.
Understand sensory processing, shutdown, masking and burnout
Adapt therapeutic approaches in neuro-affirming ways
Reduce shame and miss-attunement in the therapy room
Feel less “wrong-footed” and more grounded in complexity

This is not a diagnostic training.
It’s a reflective, relational, practice-based CPD.
We’ll explore:
The lived experience of neurodivergence
Attachment, trauma and neurodivergence intersections
Anxiety, panic and nervous system overwhelm
Communication differences and therapeutic pacing
Ethical considerations and adaptations

The days are experiential, discussion-rich and rooted in real clinical material — designed to increase both understanding and felt confidence.

Due to a few unavoidable changes, several participants have moved to our June/July dates — which means a small number of places have reopened for the 16th & 30th cohort.
If you’ve been meaning to deepen your work in this area, this is a really rich opportunity.
Feel free to message for more details or booking information.

02/05/2026

Feeling incredibly grateful and energised after hosting the first run of our CPD course!
Working with neurodivergence: An appreciation for difference.

It was such a privilege to spend time with a group of thoughtful, engaged professionals — sharing ideas, learning together, reflecting deeply, and creating a space where curiosity and connection could really flourish.

Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed so openly. The conversations, insights, and shared experiences made the 2 days truly special. I left feeling inspired and reminded again why community learning matters so much.

I’m really excited to be running the course again on the 16th and 30th of May and there are still a few spaces available for anyone who would like to join us.

If you’re looking for CPD that feels collaborative, reflective, and grounded in real practice, we’d love to welcome you.

Message us for details or to book a place.

Here’s to continued learning, connection, and growing together

21/04/2026

A brilliant start to our in person CPD course Working with Neurodivergence: An Appreciation for Difference last weekend.

We loved working with such an engaged group of counsellors and creating a space for reflection, learning, and discussion.

The second half of the course will run next Saturday.

New dates will be announced soon — we’d love to welcome more of you to join us.

17/04/2026

Tomorrow we begin.

After months of planning, preparation, and care, our new course is ready to start. Seeing the space set up and waiting for people to arrive feels both grounding and exciting — a place intentionally created for connection, reflection, and shared learning.

This course offers a supportive and professionally held environment to explore wellbeing, self-awareness, and relationships. It’s designed as a space where people can slow down, feel heard, and engage at their own pace, with an emphasis on curiosity, and genuine human connection.

We’re grateful for everyone who has supported the journey to this point and are really looking forward to welcoming our first group tomorrow. If you’ve been wondering whether something like this might be right for you, there will be future opportunities to join us as the course continues to grow.

For now, we begin — present, hopeful, and thankful for the chance to do this work together.

Working with neurodivergence: An appreciation for difference. Diversity lounge UK

29/03/2026