This event aims to empower & celebrate neurodivergent women.
Mingle Co. was born from a passion for creating inclusive events centered around the neurodivergent community. This event is aimed at celebrating & empowering neurodivergent women across all fields and in all Adelaide.
Here's what you can expect when you attend our events:
- A safe and comfortable space where you can relax and be yourself.
- A chance to create genuine and meaningful connections with other like-minded women who share similar interests and experiences.
- Neurodivergent women in leadership roles, aspiring to start their own business, advocates, all women wanting to connect and learn are invited to attend.
- Opportunities to learn, collaborate and support other neurodivergent women in business.
- We have identified the perfect balance for sitting down and engaging in learning. Our aim is to encourage participation, strengthen connections, enhance knowledge, and provide plenty of opportunities for networking!
- Sensory friendly (no fluro lights, temperature adjustments and low background noise.)
- Professional and friendly event hosts who are dedicated to making your experience as comfortable as possible.
- Light brunch and drinks. (all food will be labelled).
- Please bring fliers and / or business cards to share.
- Accessible building and toilets
- All fidgets welcome in this space so please bring them!
What you’ll get from this session:
Tamika explores the lived experience of identity loss and masking through the lens of neurodivergent women in business and life. Many women have spent years adapting - becoming who they needed to be in order to survive environments, expectations, motherhood, relationships, and professional roles. Over time, this adaptation can create a deep sense of disconnection from self, where identity feels unclear, fragmented, or entirely lost.This session gently unpacks that experience and reframes what it means to “find yourself” again.Attendees will gain:
- A deeper understanding of neurodivergent masking and why it develops as a protective response
- Insight into how identity loss can occur through chronic adaptation, burnout, and people-pleasing
- Awareness of how motherhood, business, and caregiving roles can amplify disconnection from self
- A reframed understanding of authenticity as nervous system safety rather than performance or perfection
- Practical reflection tools to identify where they are operating from survival vs alignment
- Gentle, realistic steps toward unmasking without overwhelm or pressure to “change everything”
- Permission to redefine identity, success, and authenticity in a way that honours how they actually function
This keynote is not about becoming someone new—it is about remembering, reconnecting, and rebuilding identity from a place of truth rather than expectation.