Family Workshop | Group Use

WORKSHOP

FOR GROUPS

Reimagining Family Life with Disability
{workshop for group use}

Go through the workshop in person:
✔️with people in your local community
(e.g., local school, church, community, parenting, or disability/advocacy group)
✔️facilitated by a leader in the local group

Being a group leader is easy! Gather a group that would benefit from the material. Provide a time and space to discuss the material together.
Check out the FAQs below for more info about how to start a group!

“This workshop has been so transformational for me and my family. I wish that we had encountered this information so much earlier in our journey with disability. It is truly reshaping how I think about disability and more importantly, how I relate to and love my child.”
-Workshop Participant

Why Go Through the Workshop as a Group?

The best way to benefit from this workshop content is in a group. When you gather with other people, you have:

  • built-in accountability to receive the content in these lessons
  • a way to reflect with others, ask questions, and discuss your experience
  • a local community of support
  • feedback as you begin to put these lessons into practice
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“I enjoyed meeting with other parents and hearing what they were also learning.”
-Workshop Participant

Workshop Sessions

Week 1

Reimagining Disability

WEEK 2

Changing the Mindset About Disability

WEEK 3

Building a Team of Support

WEEK 4

Taking Steps Toward a Good Future

What’s Included in the Group Package?

  • 4 Video Sessions:
    Each video session provides 30 minutes of teaching content from Amy Julia Becker.
  • Workbook Download:
    The workbook walks the group through the teaching sessions and provides reflection questions and action steps to reflect on together.
  • Online Course ($29 value):
    The online course reviews this workshop content in an easy-to-access format. Each registered participant will receive free access to the course, making it easy to return to the content whenever it’s needed.
  • Facilitator Guide:
    This guide offers a step-by-step process from start to finish, with thoughts on everything from how to gather a group to how to keep the conversation going after you are done. So even i    f you’re new to leading a discussion, this guide will equip you to facilitate great conversations about Reimagining Family Life with Disability in your community.
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“I am so delighted to be participating in your workshop. I feel like I spend a lot of time worrying about whether or not I am doing enough for my daughter and feeling inadequate in the face of her needs. Somehow, widening the lens to consider the underpinnings of how I have come to perceive disability felt expansive.”
-Workshop Participant

Register Your Group

COST: $24/person (5 person minimum)

FACILITATOR: Register your group and receive the workshop materials.

WORKSHOP MATERIALS:

  • Four video teaching sessions (YouTube playlist/links)
  • Facilitator Guide (PDF download)
  • Workbook (PDF download)
  • Online course access for each registered participant ($29 value)
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BY THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP, YOUR GROUP WILL HAVE GAINED:

✔️a new mindset toward disability
✔️a larger network of support and care
✔️a plan for taking manageable steps toward a good future

Have questions? You can ask them here.

FAQs

The cost is $24 per participant/couple. The facilitator purchases the group curriculum, with the price determined by the number of participants. For example, if 3 couples and 2 individuals (one of whom is the facilitator) wanted to go through the group workshop, the total cost would be $120. 
 
The facilitator collects payment directly from the participants for their registration. Some groups choose to charge participants more than $24 to cover other expenses, such as food/snacks, childcare, facility rental, etc. Other organizations purchase the group curriculum and provide the workshop free of charge to the group participants, with the organization absorbing the cost.

Look for other parents/caregivers in your community who are willing to meet together regularly for four sessions. The group can be as small or large as you like.

Set a time to meet. We recommend 4 sessions of 60-90 minutes each, with a follow up session one month later.

The facilitator guide that comes with your registration offers practical tips for facilitating each session.

We are not asking for people to go through any training or meet any particular qualifications in order to be a group leader at this time. Your role would be to convene a group that would benefit from the material and just provide a time and space to discuss the material together. The facilitator guide that comes with your registration offers practical tips for facilitating each session. That said, if you have particular questions about how to go about it, I’m very open to offering my thoughts, so please feel free to reach out!