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The Neuroemergence Conference adopted a month-long format, offering a dynamic array of sessions and workshops designed to explore neurodivergence in depth.

During the ND Pride celebrations, Leiden received the title “Neuroinclusive City of the Year.” The mayor accepted 10 actionable ideas from Pride participants to further enhance neuroinclusion in the city.

ND Pride Day 2024 engaged 15 countries and reached 1.5 million people, the largest nonprofit-organized celebration yet, celebrating ND strengths and achievements of neurodivergent communities worldwide.

In preparation for ND Pride 2024, Leiden hosted workshops where participants collaborated to plan a spectacular celebration of neurodiversity through creative and inclusive activities.

The last ND Pride flag, was hoisted by the government of Noord-Holland in Haarlem. The ritual for the ND Pride Flag hoisting has two stages:

• While hoisting the flag: Think of all neurodivergent people around the world, in solidarity with all our struggles.
• While the flag is hoisted: Think about how neurodiversity makes this world a more beautiful place for all.

In 2023, we hoisted the first Neurodiversity Pride flags, in New York, UK and many places in the Netherlands. The very first to ever to be hoisted was in the municipality of Leiden, a city that is very active with neurodiversity-friendly approaches. The flag was hoisted by Abdelhaq Jermoumi (alderman) and Roel Paas (Neurodiversity network Leiden) in the midst of supporters.

An amazing 24 hours ND DJ Raidtrain event was organized by DJ Moonwyrm (and the Wyrmlings – supporting DJS) celebrating ND Pride 2023. In the tradition of “secret rave for pride”, We had 27 hours of music from mostly neurodivergent DJs from 4 continents, with dancers from many countries, all the way through.

The initative, was not in our initial plan: We are very grateful for DJ Moonwyrm (and friends) for creating the sound, the event and the warm atmosphere, allowing even the teammembers of the foundation to dance in the off-hours. The events was streamed by Twitch, streamed into the Pride Universe (our VR world, with new virtual dancemoves “to emote” to, made possible by Ozones Metaverse) and even from home, many were dancing along the tunes of these ND DJs! We liked this initiative so much, we are hoping this will happen much more often on ND Pride week!

In May the “Whats strong with you campaign” started on Instagram, showcasing self-appreciation for neurodivergent people, lead by a new volunteer “Instaqueen Eva”. 

To support the new ND Pride activity “Hoisting the ND Pride Flag”, we improved the design for the flags, and delivered the first ones to NL, UK and USA. The flag consists of the logo of ND Pride Day, “the kite flying without rope trailed by a ribbon of infinity sybols”, referencing the aim for neurodivergent to thrive beyond normalisation, on a gradient of Purple to Sky Blue. The color Sky blue is representing the sky the kite is soaring in, and the color purple is traditionally associated with the keywords ‘unique, special & sacred’. 

The Neurodiversity Foundation, gifted their social gathering space to Paul Micaleffs team, running the Autism from the Inside weeklong conference. During the week, participants could meetup in the social space, have conversations and meet each other under the supervision of the wonderful Autism from the inside staff members. Follow up meeting in that month, were also hosted in the social space.

To celebrate Neurodiversity Pride Day, a enormeous undertaking was realized by crafting a expansive virtual reality world, that hosts most of the activities on June 18th. Every hour, from 0800 till 23.59, there have been activities, like Judy Singer, delivering the ‘Neurodiversiteitsrede’ Keynote of the year. The world is called the ‘Pride Universe of the Neurodiverse’ and it still open for visitors at neurodiversityprideday.com. The main techsponsor of this grand project was Jay Ess from Ozone Universe.

The largest ever edition of Neurodiversity Pride Day was held on June 18th 2021, with an 16 hourlong program, a virtual universe, political history made, an award, workshops, streams, talks, clubhouse conversations,, art installations, showcase of neurodivergent talent and so much more. The day was celebrated in the Netherlands, UK, USA, Indonesia, Australia and the Phillippines.

While the 2020 edition was the largest Pride online event worldwide at that moment in time, the 2021 edition is the largest Pride Virtual reality event ever organized.

In the Schiphol Airport area, and in the Amsterdam downtown area, billboards are showing invitations to the Neurodiversity Pride Day Celebration. The images are both  in Dutch and in English language.

Dutch DJ Nozem recording a special set of his own tracks, for people to dance to in the Party Room on the Pride Universe of the Neurodiverse.  Also DJ Krishan performed a wonderful set, making their timeslots on pride day, the largest virtual pride rave ever organized.

For Neurodiversity Pride Day, a new music group was assembled to create the Pride Anthem. The band called Studiognomes have been making an old song into a new one, that will be heard on Pride Day each year. The song is based on ‘Own Kind of Music’ by Mama Cass.

Invited by our friends at Impuls/Woortblind, Renee & Tjerk pitcht the Neurodiversity Pride Day, and invited the region managers to join us in celebration on June 18 with local activities in their “adhd-cafe” and “dyslexia-cafe”. With many creative ideas for what these activities can be, we are looking forward with great anticipation for the day

At SWAP Day, we brainstormed ideas to promote Pride Day at Unc Inc in Amsterdam, an initiative by Base & Spin media. We met Benjamin who has a brilliant mind, and any ideas on how to further our wish for a message that is understood by the millions in our nation!

Workshop ‘Embrace your differentness’ on the Neurodiversity Pride Day, at the Amsterdam event. Hosted by the ADHD Cafe, and created and presented by Renee Snijder.

The video series of the Neurodiversity Foundation made for Pride day, was premiered at the Utrecht Event, at the location of the national association for Autism in the Netherlands. It was the first public viewing of ‘Krachtig Anders’ for the members of the NVA presented by Kees, Tjerk & Diantha. The video series can be seen on this website and on the youtube channel of the foundation.

Preparation of the social influencer campagne,  sending packages with T-shirt,  with handwritten notes,  for others to show their own brainpride & proclaim love for diversity