Collaboration spotlight: “Organizing Minds” with Jacki Edry (Neurodiversity Celebration Week)
- Divergent Thinking
- May 5
- 1 min read
For day 2 of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we teamed up with Jacki Edry for a guest piece on her new “Organizing Minds” series: Organizing Minds: The Hidden Weight of “Keeping It All Together”.
Jacki’s framing is the reason this collaboration felt like such a natural fit: the aim isn’t to “fix” people, it’s to reduce the invisible load that piles up when systems assume one default brain.
Here’s the heart of the piece (and why it matters at work, in education, and at home):
Organisation isn’t a moral trait.
When someone’s struggling, it can look like procrastination or not caring. Internally it’s often “too many steps”, “can’t find a start point”, “afraid I’ll do it wrong”, or “I’m already running on empty”.
Cognitive load is the part nobody sees.
If a brain is already carrying sensory overload, anxiety, sleep debt, chronic stress, masking, health issues, grief, or trauma, “simple tasks” stop being simple.
Small scaffolds can change everything.
The post shares five practical supports that work because they reduce friction, not dignity: reducing decision points, making the next step tiny and visible, externalising memory, protecting energy (not just time), and normalising working preferences so people don’t have to hide.
If you want to read it in full (and share it with a colleague, client, or a parent who’s carrying too much), it’s here:
And if you’re coming at this from the workplace angle, you can find more of our practical neuroinclusion work here:
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