As part of the work we are doing with the interns from 180 Degrees Consulting, CAN (LET’S) created and shared a survey about our workshops. Thank you to everyone who completed it!
CAN (LET’S) asked a series of questions. Below are some of the responses.
Why did you choose CAN (LET’S) to host your workshop?
- Because of [their] stellar reputation and approach to this work. Also, there are not many organizations that do accessibility audits and this type of work that actually have persons with disabilities doing the work.
- Heather is a great presenter and is able to break down barriers to present important information
- The workshop seemed extremely valuable for our workplace since many of us work directly with disabled community members and we also believe the work CAN does is very important and transformative and we wanted to support their work as well.
- The content of the workshop looked relevant and important
- Recommended by professor
- Part of staff training to better support our clients/members.
If you attended the workshop as a part of an organization, what do you think is the biggest benefit to your organization?
- Those of us who attended the workshop have been able to reference back to it in conversation with each other; it gave us language we can all use and ideas we can all refer back to together.
- Furthering anti oppression work and awareness
- Helping people within the non profit sector to think about disability justice, understand the principles, and engage in thoughtful conversation and thought around disability, which is so often ignored in so many spaces
- Help to bring understanding and education around disability awareness to everyone at the org
- It helped prepare to prepare our team for data collection.
- Workshop was delivered at a welcome ‘entry point’ for people are various points in their knowledge journeys.
- One of the big benefits for our org (Van Pride) was knowing that Heather’s intersectional identities and relationships in the queer disabled community informed her work with our organization. This helped our org takes steps to repairing relationships and doing the things that set a path to doing better.
- Heather gave us lots of new ways of seeing our space.
Learning together so that, as a group, we are bringing our knowledge up to a specific level together.
What did you hope to take away from our workshop?
- Community and new perspectives.
- I wanted to fill in some gaps in my own understanding of disability awareness and learn whether my own vocabulary and conceptualizations align with those of the greater disability community.
- Being more informed and aware
- Open dialogue, greater understanding, ability to ask questions
lots of info and experiences, resources, and a starting point for more conversations around disability and disability justice - More info and insight into disability
- Sensitivity training for data collection.
- I wanted to more effectively use language to advocate for disability rights and replace ableist language in my everyday
- I’m always hoping to expand my knowledge around disability education
- For the Queer History – In my work at Van Pride, I learned that a lot of queer history is not written or recorded anywhere central. There are bit and pieces of it held by different people or orgs. Having a collection of queer history moments in one place felt like it would be helpful to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
- Get insight into making our facility more accessible.
- Understanding how to be an ally
Did you successfully gain the above?
100% said yes.
Is there anything else interesting you gained?
- Better language use/choices and alternatives; a better understanding of policies that negatively effect disabled people many things to think about
- Heather has a VERY affirming and open presentation style which I think itself is a treasure to witness. It was a welcome bonus to gain insight into various presentation styles for these at-times difficult conversations.
- Feeling connection to the disability community, or a general sense of not being alone in the world. Thinking yes, that is it, I have experienced that! Or having a greater clarity or new understanding of what other disabled folks go through.
- Helped me to clearly see how lack of representation affects our decisions.
- Learned more about CAN (LET’S) and just felt affirmed as another queer crip
Would you recommend us to others?
100% said yes. 50% said yes they would and 50% said that they have recommended us to others.