aboutus
The NumiNous Institute for Faith & Neurodiversity exists to promote the broadening of theology and religious institutions to incorporate the unique insights, gifts, and struggles of the neurodiverse community, including those with Autism, Learning Disabilities, and ADHD (et al).
Mission
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Invest through providing scholarships/grants for research into rethinking theology and religious spaces in light of the neurodiverse experience.
Inform our broader culture and religious institutions about the dual blessing & burden of neurodiversity, and the ways in which they can partner with and learn from our community.
Inspire the neurodiverse to embrace their unique perspectives as equally valid and worthy of theological discussion & institutional embodiment.
OurOrigins
The NumiNous Institute was originally founded by Madison Lyonhart and Dr JD Lyonhart (jdlyonhart.com), after wrestling with neurodiversity their whole lives. Seeing the same struggle reoccur in their own children, they founded The Numinous Institute in hopes of helping better equip religious communities to support, learn from, and celebrate the neurodiverse.