WORKSHOP
REIMAGINING FAMILY LIFE WITH DISABILITY
ENVISION & WORK TOWARD
A GOOD FUTURE
FOR YOUR FAMILY
Are you the parent of a child with a disability? Your family matters. Your family member with a disability matters. Your family is not a burden or a problem, and we’re so glad that you are in this world. Join me for a four-session workshop that offers families affected by disability a way to envision and work toward a good future. Whether you feel alone or worry that you’re not doing enough or are anxious about the future, this workshop is for you and will help you to:
- Take delight in your child
- Connect to community
- Take the next step
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3 Workshop Options
This transformative workshop is designed to help families take delight in their child, connect to community, and take the next step forward. Three format options are available to you. Each option includes teaching from Amy Julia Becker, a nationally recognized author, speaker, and podcaster. You’ll also receive a workbook download, which walks you through the teaching sessions and provides reflection questions and action steps.
“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
BY THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP, YOU’LL WALK AWAY WITH:
✔️a new mindset toward disability
✔️a larger network of support and care
✔️tools for creating a manageable plan for a good future
Have questions? You can ask them here.
Meet
YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Amy Julia Becker
When our daughter Penny was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, our imagination was shaped solely by fear. But over the past eighteen years, through other parents, doctors, therapists, friends, and our faith, our imagination has instead been shaped by possibility. I want to share what I’ve learned with you!
I help people reimagine the good life through my writing and speaking on disability, faith, and culture. I’m the author of four books, a guest opinion writer for national publications, and the host of the Reimagining the Good Life podcast. I love connecting with other families affected by disability and am excited to walk toward possibility together with you.
“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
“As I was exploring the best way to support my neurodivergent children, I discovered that I am also autistic and ADHD myself. A few months later, I found and signed up for Amy Julia Becker’s Reimagining Family Life with Disability workshop. It was a timely and thoughtful opportunity for me to explore what this means for me and my family as we navigate our diagnoses in a world that isn’t always accommodating. I felt encouraged as I considered my own biases as well as how I’ve grown alongside my family and sought to cultivate inclusion, belonging, and belovedness in our community. Each session was thoughtful, compassionate, and left me with so much to think about and consider.”
-Workshop Participant
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I give interviews, speak, and write about how we envision and work toward a good future for our family. If you want to learn more before you register, here are some great places to start!
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FAQs
Most frequent questions and answers
Two of the formats—the live workshop and the online course—are online only. We envision that those who use the group format will meet in person locally. Each group facilitator has the freedom to decide when and where to meet. (Stay tuned for the possibility of in-person workshops WITH Amy Julia in the future!)
Yes, this course should apply to your situation, although the majority of people who take it are parents of children with disabilities. In other words, you will have to do some work to translate your experience into the course, and yet it should still help you think through steps you can take to provide care as you consider what the future may hold for you both. The early sessions are all about a mindset shift around disability. Then we move to building a community of support so that you know you aren’t alone and can consider who could contribute to care and well-being for the person you are caring for and for you. The final session is about creating an action plan with specific meaningful and manageable steps you (and others) can take in order to move towards a good future.
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Live virtual workshop: live with Amy Julia (includes some recorded content)
Online course: prerecorded
Group use: prerecorded
The online course format is great for you! You’ll receive the same teaching content in an easy-to-access format. Go through the course at your own pace and return to the content as often as you like.
The workbook download is a comprehensive resource that is designed for participants to take notes and follow along with each week’s teaching. It also will prompt reflection on the teaching and provide a space for articulating practical steps toward a purposeful, joyful, connected future.
You will have opportunities to ask questions live during the session. You can also submit questions ahead of time via this contact form.
Each session of the live workshop will have opportunities for you to ask questions, but you can participate as much or as little as you feel comfortable.
Each session of the live workshop will be recorded, and you will receive a link to the recording within 24 hours of the live session.
