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volunteer & peer-led mental health support group for adults of all genders
📍Davao • Siquijor • Cebu
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How do learning disabilities shape the way we learn, communicate, and navigate everyday life?

Join @drdianalea_psychotherapist for another free session of The Diana Hour as we explore dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and reading comprehension difficulties, their impact on school and work, and practical ways to support diverse learning needs. Whether you’re a student, educator, working professional, parent, or mental health advocate, this conversation is an opportunity to build understanding and promote more inclusive environments. Everyone is welcome.

📅 October 25, 2026 (Sunday)
🕰️ 7:00–8:00 PM
📍 Zoom

Join the conversation!

Sign up here:
https://bit.ly/dianahour-learningdisabilities

or click the link on our bio. by @silong.ndspace

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October calendar is up!

🗓️ OCT 15 | THUR - Bayanihan Conversation Series: Workplace Voices
🕰️ 8:00 PM PhST
🔗 https://bit.ly/WorkplaceVoices

🗓️ OCT 25 | SUN - Diana Hour: Understanding Learning Disabilities
🕰️ 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PhST
🔗 https://bit.ly/dianahour-learningdisabilities

or check out our events page: https://silongndspace.my.canva.site/events by @silong.ndspace

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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” - Thomas Merton

This workshop explores art as a way of making sense of what we feel through color, movement, acrylic, and the act of making itself.

Artist @ansoyming shares how art became one of the ways she channels the intensity of emotions she experiences with BPD, turning something internal into something tangible.

Join us for an afternoon of painting in nature, conversation, reflection and an open space to create, connect, and talk about the lived experiences that shape us.

Come as you are. Bring your stories and create from them.

🗓️ November 15 | SUN
🕰️ 2–5 PM
🎟️ ₱300 - (art materials & venue fees included)
📍@cottagecoredavao

A copy of the Cottage Core menu has been added to the form. BYOF or order food and drinks by messaging @cottagecoredavao directly. Exact venue details will be shared after registration is confirmed.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/artsession-ming or click the 🔗 in our bio

Limited to 12 slots. Form will automatically close once capacity is reached. See you there!

Portrait by 📸 @richardjeric by @silong.ndspace

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At Silong, we don't subscribe to a single way of understanding individuals. We welcome diverse perspectives from evidence-based practice to spirituality, philosophy, and lived experience, believing that meaningful conversations begin with curiosity as human experience is too complex to fit into one framework.

We aim to challenge mental health stigma by centering lived experiences and connecting individuals to professional support and complementary well-being practices and activities. by @silong.ndspace

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What does it really mean to belong at work?

Beyond getting hired, inclusion is about being heard, understood, supported, and given the space to work as yourself.

This October 15, Workplace Voices brings together ABS, Inc., Silong ND Space with Care & Connect and Autistic Titas, and Unawa Circle to talk about neurodiversity, mental well-being, accommodations, and what inclusive workplaces look like in practice.

October 15, 2026 | 8:00–9:00 PM PHT | Zoom

Register:
https://bit.ly/WorkplaceVoices

Continue the conversation at the 3rd ABS International Summit on November 21, 2026.

Summit registration:
https://forms.gle/jm938YZX9woJVfKF6

Come with your experiences. Leave with a wider perspective.

#workplacevoices #bayanihanconversationseries #workplaceinclusion #neurodiversity #ABSInc by @silong.ndspace

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How can parents support a neurodivergent child when they’re expected to handle everything on their own?

In Episode 2: Education Voices of the Bayanihan Conversation Series, Dr. Diana Baranovich reminds us that some needs call for professional assessment and support. Parents play a vital role, but they need people with the right expertise beside them.

What kind of professional support would make the biggest difference for families in your community?

#BayanihanConversationSeries #EducationVoices #Neurodiversity #InclusiveEducation #FamilySupport by @silong.ndspace

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Sometimes, understanding yourself comes later than it should.

For Kitin Miranda, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent and one of the Autistic Titas, a partner of Silong ND Space, receiving a diagnosis meant finally having context for experiences she had carried for years.

Her story speaks to something often missed in conversations about neurodiversity: the people who spend years adapting, masking, and trying to understand why they experience the world differently.

Late diagnosis doesn’t begin the story. It gives language to a story already lived.

Kitin shared her perspective through the ABS Bayanihan Conversation Series, where lived experience is not an afterthought, but part of the conversation.

Continue the conversation with us at Workplace Voices this October and the 3rd ABS International Summit on November 21.

Summit Registration:
https://forms.gle/jm938YZX9woJVfKF6

Learn more:
https://absinternationalsummit.netlify.app/

Follow ABS, Inc. for more voices, experiences, and conversations from the community.

#ABSInc #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #LateDiagnosis #LivedExperience #BayanihanConversationSeries #absinternationalsummit by @silong.ndspace

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What if the systems we call “inclusive” still don’t feel inclusive to the people inside them?

For Lourmina Sayson, Teacher, Neurodivergent Adult, ABS Member, and Silong ND Space Volunteer, this question comes from both sides of the classroom.

She sees how executive dysfunction can be mistaken for misbehavior, how coping strategies can be treated as distractions, and how mental health needs can go unrecognized. But she also knows what it feels like to navigate these systems herself.

Her perspective reminds us that inclusion cannot simply be written into policy. It has to be felt by the people it is meant to include.

Continue the conversation with us at Workplace Voices this October and the 3rd ABS International Summit on November 21.

Summit Registration:
https://forms.gle/jm938YZX9woJVfKF6

Learn more:
https://absinternationalsummit.netlify.app/

Looking for a community that understands? Connect with Silong ND Space and follow their work in building spaces for neurodivergent people to connect, learn, and belong.

Follow ABS, Inc. for more lived experiences and perspectives from our community.

#ABSInc #Neurodiversity #LivedExperience #InclusiveEducation #BehavioralScience #BayanihanConversationSeries #ABSInternationalSummit by @silong.ndspace

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A few hours to play games, meet people, and take a break from the usual routine: Monopoly, Jenga, Scrabble, and more!

Hosted by @komunidaddavao

This is a low-pressure hangout for anyone who could use some time away from the usual mental load. You don’t have to be particularly social or know how to play.

Join a game, chat with people, or just hang out.

🗓️ Sept 27th | SUN
🕢 01:00 PM - 4:00 PM
📍 KM 3 J.P. Laurel Ave, Poblacion District, Davao City, 8000 Davao del Sur
🎫 Free

Since this is a private condo setting, please bring your own food and drinks.

Limited slots. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/boardgame-ho or click the 🔗 in our bio

Full location details will be shared with confirmed attendees. by @silong.ndspace

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“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
– Fred Rogers

Missed the webinar or need a recap? Our team created a digital handout highlighting the key points discussed during our recently concluded workshop, Introduction to Psychological First Aid: Supporting Neurodivergent People During Crisis and Distress.

During the workshop, participants were introduced to Psychological First Aid (PFA) through a neuroaffirmative lens. Along with learning the Look, Listen, and Link framework, participants explored the importance of recognizing that people may experience and respond to crisis differently, and that meaningful support begins with paying attention to each person’s individual needs, communication, preferences, and circumstances.

And if there is a mental health topic you would like us to explore, or if you would like to invite Unawa Circle to facilitate a mental health webinar for your organization, school, workplace, or community, let us know in the comments or send your proposal to unawacircle@gmail.com.

Curious to learn more? Stay tuned for further updates from Unawa Circle.

#unawacircle #silong #PsychologicalFirstAid by @silong.ndspace

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No format - just a casual meet-up for parents and caregivers navigating neurodivergence.

🗓️ OCT 3 | SAT
🕢 3:00 PM onwards
📍 @jadesbakedgoodies Jade's Baked Goodies - Sandawa Phase 2, EJI Building, Maya Street, Ecoland Dr, Davao City, 8000 Davao del Sur
🎫 Free to Join.

We highly encourage purchasing drinks at the café to support our hosts.

Bring your journals, books, paints, or anything you enjoy. Come to talk, create, share experiences, or simply spend some time with parents & caregivers of neurodivergent family members.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/neurofamilies by @silong.ndspace

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Together with @absinc_ph @unawacircle @drdianalea_psychotherapist @autistictitas, we bring parent, lived-experience, professional, and educator perspectives to not just identify problems, but to work toward practical solutions that can eventually be implemented.

A few highlights from our webinar on education voices:

• Contingency behavioral analysis: Behavior doesn’t happen in isolation. We can identify and rearrange environmental variables to better support neurodivergent needs.
• It takes a village: meaningful support requires coordination among parents, educators, professionals, and neurodivergent individuals.
• Different environments, different needs: some autistic adults continue to prefer Montessori-type settings that offer structure, autonomy, and flexibility.
• Inclusion in practice: some schools are already asking, “What can we do to accommodate and adjust to the student’s needs in a college setting?”
• The parent experience matters: discussing the challenges around assessment, acceptance, and the emotional realities families face.

Check out the full webinar here: https://bit.ly/educationvoices and catch our next episode 🤝 by @silong.ndspace

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