May 5 Held via Zoom from 9am-12pm Offering Your Gifts Through Service This workshop explores the potential for connection, contribution and transformation when people decide to commit to each other to make life better. Sometimes being in formal service relationships with vulnerable people can be fraught with limitation, but there is no doubt that there...Read More

Principles of Teaching for Everyday Life: A Three Part Series on Competency Development March 3, 4, & 17, including some independent experiential work in between sessions Presented via Zoom 8:30am-1:00pm each day Human beings have vastly more growth potential than is realized by most people, and this is especially true for people with disabilities. We’re...Read More

The Comforts of Home: Exploring Valued Roles as a Source of Peace and Place During Calm and Crisis For many of us, home is a springboard for going out into the world with our best foot forward. It is a place of rest, refreshment, identity and meaningful relationships. In these most recent times of pandemic...Read More

The Power of Roles This workshop gives participants a practical introduction to the principles of Social Role Valorization. Through a combination of multimedia presentation and small group discussion, participants will learn about the phenomenon of social devaluation. This event includes discussion of how people with disabilities and other devalued groups have been systematically hurt and...Read More

The Power of Roles This workshop gives participants a practical introduction to the principles of Social Role Valorization. Through a combination of multimedia presentation and small group discussion, participants will learn about the phenomenon of social devaluation. This event includes discussion of how people with disabilities and other devalued groups have been systematically hurt and...Read More