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Dissertation: What Works?

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With my dissertation supervisors, Ginny Belden-Charles from the Taos Institute, and Jasmina Sermijn, from VUB. My dissertation, What Works? Stories of Successful Leadership in the lives, groups and communities of people with intellectual disabilities, can be downloaded here: Johannes-WhatWorksDiss-USALetterWiCover2UploadEmail You can watch the dissertation defence here. You can watch the dissertation being awarded here. One of the updates for my self advocate collaborators is here. The final update presentation for the research was given at TASH in Atlanta, in Dec. 2017 and is here.   Sometime in 2018 there will be an online discussion of some of the dissertation that will … Continue reading Dissertation: What Works?

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More employment related graphic recording – the Pacific Autism Family Centre

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Several of my favourite things came together around creating this graphic – it’s about the idea of massively increasing supported, equitable employment for people with disabilities in British Columbia, it’s a group that’s thinking BIG ambitious thoughts about holistic supports and brought together a group of diverse interests to facilitate a discussion about partnerships and how research can lead to action, and I got to draw with Liz Etmanski, my favourite drawing partner. Last but not least, it is a project that is generated by families and I learned a lot of new things and got to change my mind about some … Continue reading More employment related graphic recording – the Pacific Autism Family Centre