Creating biophilic working environments for a neurodiverse workforce

April is Stress Awareness month and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are encouraging employers and managers to complete the five steps of their Working Minds campaign
1. This campaign recognises the significant impact that working environments and workplace cultures have on our wellbeing. Such impacts land in our nervous systems and are likely to be particularly felt by those of us who are neurodivergent and whose needs are all-too-often overlooked. The good news is that we are now starting to recognise the impacts this can have on our health and productivity and, with this recognition comes an expectation that employers and workplaces care for the health of our diverse nervous systems. In this short article, I present the five steps of the Working Minds campaign and then consider how this might help us to become more compassionate towards people with ADHD and the role that a biophilic approach might play in promoting health and wellbeing.