Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
“The differences that we have, however they may be, are the building blocks for innovation, for creativity, for cultural explosions, for new ideas… And for just enjoying each other.”
– Katie Keech.
What if clinical care could hold space for all of who you are?
At PPWC 2025, join licensed therapist and plural system Katie Keech for their transformative session:
"Towards a New Model of Clinical Work: Using a Neurodiversity Affirmative Model with Plurality."
Katie brings both lived experience and clinical expertise to this conversation, reimagining what it means to support plural systems outside the limitations of the DSM.
They’ll explore how clinical work can center care, collaboration, and autonomy, without pathologizing plurality.
Don’t miss the live Q&A to connect directly with Katie, ask your questions, and keep the conversation going in our post-session meetups!
PPWC is happening this weekend, on May 24 & 25, and all tickets include 7 day replay access in case you can’t join live.
Whether you’re a system, a supporter, or a clinician ready to listen and learn—you’re welcome at PPWC.
Save your spot today and be part of a movement and conference that centers lived experience, not erasure.
#dissociativeidentitydisorderawareness #plural #dissociation #endthestigma #did #osdd #osdd1b #osddsystem #plurality #alters #maymentalhealthawarenessmonth #mentalhealth #therapy
“The differences that we have, however they may be, are the building blocks for innovation, for creativity, for cultural explosions, for new ideas… And for just enjoying each other.”
– Katie Keech.
What if clinical care could hold space for all of who you are?
At PPWC 2025, join licensed therapist and plural system Katie Keech for their transformative session:
"Towards a New Model of Clinical Work: Using a Neurodiversity Affirmative Model with Plurality."
Katie brings both lived experience and clinical expertise to this conversation, reimagining what it means to support plural systems outside the limitations of the DSM.
They’ll explore how clinical work can center care, collaboration, and autonomy, without pathologizing plurality.
Don’t miss the live Q&A to connect directly with Katie, ask your questions, and keep the conversation going in our post-session meetups!
PPWC is happening this weekend, on May 24 & 25, and all tickets include 7 day replay access in case you can’t join live.
Whether you’re a system, a supporter, or a clinician ready to listen and learn—you’re welcome at PPWC.
Save your spot today and be part of a movement and conference that centers lived experience, not erasure.
#dissociativeidentitydisorderawareness #plural #dissociation #endthestigma #did #osdd #osdd1b #osddsystem #plurality #alters #maymentalhealthawarenessmonth #mentalhealth #therapy
![[CC] Read Aloud Together by ChanJlingHerd](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r85zO0szMiQ/mqdefault.jpg "[CC] Read Aloud Together by ChanJlingHerd
The Plural Positivity World Conference happens every year online in May or June. Get your ticket and find out more about PPWC and our other virtual events at: https://powertotheplurals.com/events Plural Positivity World Conference 2023
ChanJlingHerd
Title: Read Aloud Together
Please note that this session may touch on topics of facing difficult problems and discussions around multiracial interior appearances in a white body, aiming to help kids understand racism.
Session description: This session is focus on giving systems a place for the adults and kids to listen to children’s books read aloud with very short explanations (by kids and adults) of how these books had a positive impact on the kids/system.
Presenter bio: ChanJlingHerd is the partner system of Nsashaell System and has been living within the plural household for a decade. Our outside job is in education, so we think a lot about how to help the children in our system and household grow up in selves-affirming ways appropriate for children sharing a life with mostly adults in an adult body.
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![[CC] Boxes, Labels & Checklists; the pros & cons of seeking a DID diagnosis by Katie Keech](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rFwMenFztQQ/mqdefault.jpg "[CC] Boxes, Labels & Checklists; the pros & cons of seeking a DID diagnosis by Katie Keech
Plural Positivity World Conference 2023
Katie Keech
Title: Boxes, Labels & Checklists; the pros & cons of seeking a DID diagnosis
Session description: When pieces start to come together and we suspect that we might be a part of a plural system it can be confusing to try to make sense of it. This is particularly challenging when we’re also managing the impacts of PTSD symptoms that don’t seem to make sense. Finding something that might be a direction towards feeling more in control can be exciting, even if it’s also a little scary.
It can be hard to know if what we suspect is true and the desire for confirmation through a diagnosis can feel like a compass in a sea of chaos. There can be a sense of pride in having outside confirmation that what we suspect is happening inside ourselves is, in fact, happening.
It can also be challenging to connect with providers. Aside from financial barriers, it can be difficult to find someone who understands how to assess you, and there are different clinical personalities and styles which may not mesh well with you.
In this workshop we will look at stories of what drove different DID and OSDD systems to receive a diagnosis for themselves, what it meant to them, what things it took for them to get to that, and if there were periods where they dropped the search for a provider entirely. We will fold in some statistics around access and lack of access to supportive and informed services.
Presenter bio: Katie Keech, MFT (They/Them) has over twenty years of professional experience in both community mental health and private practice. They have managed emerging adult community mental health programs and forensic programs.
In the late 1990’s they were diagnosed with DDNOS. After much clinical and personal work, they identify as part of a plural system. In private practice they currently specialize in severe dissociative disorders and complex PTSD as well a neurodivergence from a neurodiversity affirmative framework.
Katie is also the visionair and co founder of The Refractory, a recently started think tank for clinicians with lived experience DID/OSDD/Plurality, which aims to transform the mental health landscape and has already 75 members! They are a beacon of hope for many in the community who felt hurt, shamed or scared after recent events by certain clinical establishments.
Katie is also a Fully Professed Member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc., a 43-year-old global order of queer drag nuns. As Sister Freda they support queer and other communities through fundraising and activism. In their free time they play bass guitar, paint expressionist portraits, and attempt to write graphic novels.
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![[CC] Autism, Dissociation and the Trauma Of A Thousand Cuts by Casa Thymia Collective](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rS5bu5kYxag/mqdefault.jpg "[CC] Autism, Dissociation and the Trauma Of A Thousand Cuts by Casa Thymia Collective
The Plural Positivity World Conference happens every year online in May or June. Get your ticket and find out more about PPWC and our other virtual events at: https://powertotheplurals.com/events Plural Positivity World Conference 2024
Casa Thymia Collective
Autism, Dissociation and the Trauma Of A Thousand Cuts
Session description: Goes into detail about the reality of being an autistic child, parental reactions, school and bullying, the ways in which we respond to upsetting events, dissociative disorders and trauma. Alludes to but does not describe adverse childhood experiences including abuse and neglect, medical emergencies, bereavements, divorce, etc.
TW (TRIGGER WARNINGS) for the session: Goes into detail about the reality of being an autistic child, parental reactions, school and bullying, the ways in which we respond to upsetting events, dissociative disorders and trauma. Alludes to but does not describe adverse childhood experiences including abuse and neglect, medical emergencies, bereavements, divorce, etc.
Presenter bio: Casa Thymia Collective are a multiply neurodivergent adaptive plural system based in the UK. They share a middle-aged white bendy transgender body, create art and music, and work training social workers about autism. They have a diagnosis of DID and receive complex trauma therapy on the NHS.
Disclaimer: While we encourage the sharing and viewing of this video, unauthorized reproduction, exploitation, or any use beyond this, particularly for case studies, conference presentations, research papers, promotional or marketing materials, or incorporation into other video or broadcast content, is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, organizations like the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and McLean Hospital.
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For more information about our conference, check out our website: https://powertotheplurals.com/ppwc
Found value in our PPWC sessions? Help us keep this resource available and growing by donating to The Plural Association Nonprofit: https://powertotheplurals.com/donate")
