REIMAGINING
Family Life with Disability
Keynote
Reimagining Family Life with Disability
Messages from the news, advertisements, and even authority figures often suggest that families affected by disability are a burden. Many families like ours feel overlooked, overwhelmed, and isolated. Amy Julia Becker offers a different vision, inviting families to recognize their inherent value, embrace their essential place within their communities, and experience delight, connection, and hope. Amy Julia helps families reimagine disability, connect to community, and take the next step toward a good future.
Workshop
Reimagining Family Life with Disability
This interactive workshop offers families who experience disability a way to envision and work toward a good future. Whether parents and caregivers feel alone, worried they’re not doing enough, or anxious about the future, they’ll find hope as they’re invited to explore how to:
- Start with delight
- Connect to community, and
- Take the next step toward a good future
While this event is intended especially for parents, caregivers, and family members of people with disabilities, all are welcome. (Workshops run anywhere from 3 to 6 hours, depending on your community’s needs.)
Retreat
Reimagining Family Life with Disability
The Reimagining Retreat offers five sessions—three keynote talks and two interactive workshops—designed to guide participants through reimagining family life with disability and creating a practical plan for the future. By the end of the weekend, participants will leave with a personalized plan that includes:
- Strategies for starting with delight
- Pathways to deeper community connection
- Practical next steps toward a good future
Session One: Explores disability as a natural aspect of the human condition and invites participants to reimagine what disability means in their own lives and communities.
Session Two: Reframes identity as received from belovedness rather than constructed from ability, equipping parents with tools to start with delight (rather than deficit) in their child and their family.
Session Three: Examines our need for community, the barriers that often prevent it, and practical ways to begin to connect to community. This session includes a Connection Workshop, where participants identify 1–3 concrete steps to help create greater connection.
Session Four: Introduces person-centered planning and offers guidance for taking the next step toward a good future. This session includes a Goal-Setting Workshop, where participants develop meaningful and manageable goals for the future.
Session Five: Concludes the retreat with encouragement for carrying these next steps into daily life.
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Take the Next Step Podcast
Real talk, real tools, and real hope for families experiencing disability
Parenting a child with a disability can feel overwhelming and isolating—but you don’t have to journey this road alone. Take the Next Step offers practical insights to help you create a thriving future for your whole family. Join Amy Julia every Wednesday for encouragement, honesty, direction, and hope.
