The Doctor, The Poet, & The Reverend: ADHD, discovery journeys, & finding neurodivergent others

The Doctor, The Poet, & The Reverend: Aucademy Educates. ADHD, discovery journeys, & finding neurodivergent others

In this Aucademy special, Dr Chloe Farahar (they/she) talks with Tom Delahunt (AKA The HoboPoet, he/him) and Reverend Lizzie Hopthrow (she/her) in The Quiet View yurt just outside Canterbury.

CONTENT NOTE: sporadic loud banging (try turning the sound down and using closed captions); discussion of suicide; mental health; addiction.

Chloe interviews Polyennic (ADHD) PhD candidate, Tom, and explores his journey and desire to share the neurodivergent canopy.

At Rev Lizzie Hopthrow's Quiet View, in a beautiful yurt, Aucademy discuss the importance of finding community and sharing curious spaces with other neurodivergent people.

For a written, call-and-response piece between Tom and Chloe, head here: https://aucademy.co.uk/2025/11/19/sha...

Tom Delahunt is a doctoral candidate, dyslexic academic, TimesHEA winner (2019), and author of The Wandering Lamb. Tom's PhD research interests lie in exploring the gaps between art and health.

Link to Tom's book:
https://bookshop.canterbury.ac.uk/The...

Revd Lizzie Hopthrow is Warden of the Quiet View, and an Anglican priest and retired hospice chaplain. She is passionate about encouraging people to find stillness, comfort or inspiration when they visit. Her experiences in the hospice movement and the Taizé Community together with influences from Eastern spirituality have formed her understanding of the Universality of Divine Love. She is a very experienced labyrinth facilitator and trainer and has been published extensively on her national labyrinth work. Lizzie is a recipient of the Janki Foundation’s award - 100 Women of Spirit

Link to the Quiet View https://www.quietview.co.uk/about-us

*Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians*

Dr Chloe Farahar (they/she) - Autistic academic (prejudice-reduction; Autistic wellbeing; neurodiversity), educator, & self-advocate