What are disability awareness training sessions for?
Our targeted disability awareness training sessions empower and educate your team while encouraging questions and engagement in conversation around disability and inclusion.
In-person sessions
Understanding the experiences of people with disabilities can provide your team with valuable insights into their needs and challenges, both within your organisation and beyond. We collaborate with you to create an in-person session that delivers powerful insights and learnings to your team. GSA Associates all have real life disability experience and expertise, making them the best educators to lead each session.
Their insights might well make you laugh or even shed a tear, but your team will certainly gain greater disability awareness. These sessions harness humour, emotion and interactivity to convey important messages and create a safe space for questions and curiosity.
Targeted to your needs
Our Disability Awareness Training sessions will see you and your team explore different disability and accessibility topics for around 60 to 90 minutes. We work closely with you to understand what topics are most relevant to your goals and design a session that will meet those needs.
Popular topics include:
- Understanding Disability and Access
- The Language of Disability
- The Business Case for Accessibility and Universal Design
- Misconceptions and Stereotypes
- Unconscious Bias
- Working with People with Disability
- The Impact of Disability Inclusion and Why it Matters
Why are disability awareness training sessions important?
A conversation to challenge and change
Our targeted sessions offer a safe space. We want participants to feel comfortable asking questions they might’ve been afraid to in the past. That’s why our associates create an approachable atmosphere. It’s not about calling you out, but rather about bringing you and your team in to better understand disability. We firmly believe that by starting the conversation misconceptions have the opportunity to change.
How does it work?
GSA’s trademark fresh style makes these sessions highly engaging and welcoming. We harness real-life stories and have interactive elements to draw participants in and keep them engaged throughout.
Was the session a success? We’ll run pre- and post-session engagement surveys to find out, and determine disability attitudes and understanding changed, from before the session and after.
Learn more about why your business needs a Disability Inclusion Action Plan.
Connect dots. Build trust.
Targeted sessions have an empowering effect. They demonstrate your organisation’s dedication to disability awareness and boost people’s disability inclusion confidence.
They also offer a flexible way to get every team member, from senior leaders to management to front line staff, together in one room to discuss the importance of inclusion and how they can support each other to be more inclusive.
In fact, during one corporate client session, an employee felt empowered enough to disclose the disability they had kept to themselves for five years. The impact that the session had on this individual and their team was significant, creating an immediate feeling of trust and confidence within them that they would be supported.
