The workshops were developed together with the participants, with their needs, their experiences and their topics.
the first workshop
beginning 2009: start of the autWorker project
summer 2009: first workshops in Hamburg
since autumn 2009: development of a workshop structure with support of the self-help group in Kiel (ca. 6 months)
since beginning 2010: permanent workshops autistic skills in Hamburg
since autumn 2011: further development of the workshops autistic skills within the context of ABC-project at the Berufsbildungswerk Potsdam (ca. 18 months)
november 2011: start of auticon
since beginning 2012: workshops at auticon and the job-training centers Timmendorfer Strand and Hannover
end of 2012: beginning of Hajos PhD about the experiences within the workshops autistic skills at Prof. Georg Theunissen, Fachbereich Rehabilitationspädagogik, university of Halle
too exclusive for inclusion?
summer 2013: contact with autistic activists from Sweden
end of 2013: Hajos cancer diagnose becomes a crisis for autWorker
summer 2014: start of autWorker project autWay
autumn 2014: start of autWorker partner project Autistiskt Initiativ (AI) in Örebro, Sweden
april 2015: autWorker-conference "too exclusive for inclusion?"
february 2016: ending regular workshops autistic skills in Hamburg because of a lack of financing
may 2016: end of autWorker project in its existing form because of a lack of financing
working holidays beginning 2018
in 2017: restart of autWorker as a unsalaried project
autumn 2017: end of Autistiskt Initiativ
since end of 2017: workshops "Autistic Skills" at diversicon, Berlin and at some job-training centers
april 2018: autspace-conference in Kloten, Sweden
since summer 2018: regular training workshop with ca. 10 participants at ZAK, Hannover, Germany
since 2018: participation at the working group autism North Germany of the consortium of job-training centers
ca. 120 workshops between summer 2009 and spring 2016; ca. 750 autistic participants
4 to 8 participants per Workshop; ca. 75% of participants are job beginners