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PATH training, August 2023 – and updates

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Sign at PosAbilities “Festival of Flourishing”, leading to our story-telling tent 🙂 Eilidh Nicholson and I, hosted by Spectrum Society for Community Living, will be facilitating a 3 day training in Vancouver, August 23 – 25th. You can find out more, and register, here. We will examine several tools for thinking about person centered planning, network development and goal setting. We will focus particularly on PATH as a template for planning but will also look at MAPS, Solution Circles, the Circles diagram and One Page Profiles. At the end of these three days together participants will be able to facilitate … Continue reading PATH training, August 2023 – and updates

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ARTbrain Cedar Summer – learning about Truth and Reconciliation

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I think that Truth and Reconciliation is the most important conversation of our times, and full of so many interesting aspects for all of us.  Yet people with disabilities are almost always left out of the conversation.  There are so many parallels to our stories that we think it is important to foster discussion about it.  As Indigenous people were moved into Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals, people with disabilities were hospitalised.  I talked to retired social workers from Woodlands who took Indigenous children out of Indian Hospitals and into Woodlands to keep them “safer.”  The Woodlands Memorial garden contains … Continue reading ARTbrain Cedar Summer – learning about Truth and Reconciliation

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ARTbrain – a new project

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Now that this has been formally announced, we can share some great news!  Our new ARTbrain project combines a few ideas that Liz Etmanski, Susan Powell and I have been talking about for a while.  We were grateful to receive some funding from the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture to explore these ideas over the next eight months.  Our proposal read, Access to fine arts and humanities education has been almost impossible for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and this project will involve them in thinking critically about how art works, making art, works from art history and … Continue reading ARTbrain – a new project