Breaking Barriers
Some clients have difficulties choosing between our workshops. Others ask for a sample before deciding which workshops to host. Breaking Barriers offers solutions to both these needs by combining information from our Disability Awareness, Gender + Sexuality, and Imposter Syndrome workshops.
Join us to learn about how to make your environment more accessible and equitable, how to be more aware of language, and how to support people from marginalized populations (disability, 2SLGBTQIA+, racialized, and more).
Discussion includes:
- The effects of colonialization on how we perceive gender
- Disability statistics
- Disability definitions (includes neurodiversity and Deaf/deaf)
- The sameness problem
- Who sets the parameters of professionalism and/or good behaviour
- Social categorization
- Imposter syndrome
- Examples of ableism
- Current terminology of disability
- De-gendering language
- Representation matters
- How to respect and use pronouns
- What to do if you accidentally misgender someone
- Collective liberation
- How to bust the myth of sameness
LET’S’ Breaking Barriers workshop is created, researched and facilitated by people from the identities discussed.
Our lived expertise is vital to properly representing gender and sexuality identities.
Workshops can be customized and tailored in length.
Book by contacting us at hello@ConnectWithLETS.org or by phoning 778.723.5387
“All of Heather’s insight was valuable and exceeded what I was hoping to learn. CAN gave me a safe environment to grow and ask questions that I couldn’t ask elsewhere. And ultimately I am grateful to be guided by a specialized group than to put any pressure on friends and colleagues with disabilities to teach me what I should be learning on my own.
I am more confident now in my efforts to help people than I was prior to speaking with Heather. And these lessons go beyond my work! Any time I speak now, whether about my project or otherwise, I am able to use language that is more respectful for people with disabilities and further explain the importance of these words and why I speak differently now. I am certain that this has an effect on these people and is making important progress by helping them to better understand what I have learned as well.
I have such gratitude for Heather and their team at CAN. Their work is important and has a positive effect in the world. And if there’s one thing they teach extremely well, it’s that we are all in this world together.”
Director, Producer, Writer
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