You are Resilient! Disability Pride & Self-Esteem

• Disability is our reality – let’s celebrate who we are and where we are going. In this fun workshop, we will kick off watching the Stella Young TedTalk. Afterward, we’ll have a lot to talk about: our own dreams, our own ideas of disability, the power of language, and the growing culture of resisting oppression. You are guaranteed to leave this workshop with a full dose of pride and power.

• 60-120 minutes - Virtual

Disability Etiquette Training

• Disability Etiquette Training is essential training for anyone working or volunteering. The purpose of this workshop is to provide important

  information regarding the disability community and culture. Some of the topics we will cover include:

  • Appropriate language to use when communicating with persons with disabilities;

  • Proper etiquette to use when interacting with people with disabilities;

  • Access and accommodation issues;

  • Civil rights of people with disabilities;

  We hope that this overview of disability issues will heighten your awareness and be useful when you interact with persons with disabilities. Our goal is to demystify disability and to examine it simply as a diversity issue.

• 60-120 minutes- Virtual or In Person (within PA)

The Disability Arts Movement

• We discuss the history of Disability Arts through a series of disability arts and their artists, and its importance in the Disability Rights Movement

• Disability Arts creates a meeting of people who seek to purvey the truth of their lived experience largely through activism, their fight for others and their acceptance of difference. An exciting exchange of minds and experience can take effect. The work can help to change the world as it is now, supporting and creating freedoms to participate without fear as well as dispelling feelings of unease, embarrassment or inconvenience by making a seeming otherness ordinary.

• 60-90 minutes- VIrtual or In Person (in PA)

Self Advocacy Panel

• Panel style discussion with disability advocates (3-5 individuals) with facilitation which includes Q&A

• The self-advocacy movement has been sweeping the country since the early seventies. Advancing the self-advocacy movement requires the debunking the oppressing views of disability. Disabled people are changing society, armed with a powerful new view of disability—that we are people, a minority group, with the same civil rights as everyone else. We are claiming the right to make decisions for ourselves. And we are working together to gain these rights. In this workshop you will hear the stories of disabled people and their self advocacy journeys.

• 90 minutes- Virtual

Individualized workshops available

• Let’s work together to build out a workshop that fits your needs