Training, workshops or events designed and delivered to give you everything you need to make disability inclusion a reality.
Creating environments that are inclusive and supportive for everyone, including disabled people, requires understanding, empathy and confident communication. Discovering the diverse experiences of disabled people, will help you to create supportive spaces, bringing your colleagues, managers, and community, on board with the confidence to make change.
Get in touch with Angie at Disability North
Angie, (our Engagement and Inclusion Lead) will find out exactly what you need, whether you are a large organisation, or small community group. She will find out your expectations from the training, workshop or event and design and deliver something unique to you and your organisation.
Email : Angiestewart@disabilitynorth.org.uk
Phone : 0191 284 0480
Ideas on topics Angie can cover in training, workshops or events (This list is quite probably endless!)
Lived experience : Angie has so many true stories, which she shares to explain why this is such an important topic. They show the impact when inclusion doesn’t happen and how disabled people have developed great resilience to live the life they choose.
The Purple Pound : The money that disabled people, bring to the economy and their local community.
Disability and the law : The history of the disability movement and how it is still relevant to 16.1 million disabled people in the UK today
Visible and invisible disability : How do you know and what should you do?
Barriers : Attitudinal barriers, physical barriers, institutional barriers. There are a whole lot of barriers that disabled people face every day. How do can we identify them and break them down?
Creating Accessible Spaces : Designing environments to be accessible for everyone. Providing accessible information and services.
Communicating with Confidence : The importance of Listening as a big part of effective communication, using clear language and avoiding making assumptions about anyone.
Training for managers : If you are a manager, how do you attract disabled people into your workforce and ensure their employment with you is inclusive?
Delivering inclusive customer service : If you are delivering a service or product, how do you attract disabled customers and encourage them to spend their money with you?
Engaging Training, Workshop and Event Interaction
All of this will be delivered with humour and sparkle… Ensuring every participant has a thoroughly good time and takes lots away that they can use to make change, and share with family, friends and colleagues. There will be : –
Interaction and an inclusive atmosphere : Everyone will feel welcome and valued and the session will be interactive, making it accessible for every learning style.
Opportunity for feedback : Participants experiences on the training, workshop or event will be captured and genuinely used to shape future sessions.
Ongoing support : Angie will stay connected with you for as long as you need. Options are for her to share contact details at the end of the session. Regular reviews of the impact of the session in your organisation or a disability access audits to be carried out in your venue.
Thank you for taking the time to read this… Already you are making a meaningful difference towards creating an inclusive environment that supports us all. Thank you!