Workshops
One hour, face to face, and built from lived experience. Everyone goes home with three things they made themselves, not a pile of slides.
How they run
You can get up, stretch, step out or take a break whenever you like. You don’t need to ask me.
Share what you want to share and keep the rest. Nobody gets put on the spot.
These are practice and ideas, not legal advice or advice about your own funding. They work alongside advocacy services, not instead of them.
The workshops
System advocacy · 1 hour
For anyone who keeps getting asked for their views.
When someone asks what you think, does anyone actually do anything with it? This hour is about telling the difference, and giving feedback that can’t be filed away.
You go home with
Self advocacy · 1 hour
For people getting ready for an assessment, and the people who support them.
Getting ready for an assessment. Not so you can perform, and not so you can make your life sound worse than it is. Just so the person in front of you sees your real life.
You go home with
Social Role Valorisation · 1 hour
For people living with less support than they need, and their families.
This isn’t an hour about what’s been cut. It’s about the roles you hold in your life, and how to keep them going, whatever the budget says.
You go home with
Self advocacy · 1 hour
For people on a waitlist for help, and the people around them.
Sometimes help turns up quickly. Sometimes the waitlist is long. This is about what you can do in the meantime, alongside the people who can help.
You go home with
For organisations · 1 hour
For councils, agencies and service providers.
I’ve sat on the other side of a lot of consultations. In this one, your team gets to sit there too. It’s honest and kind, and it’s about how consultations are built, not about blaming anyone.
You go home with
Tell me who it’s for and where you are, and we’ll work it out together. Community groups, services, councils and teams are all welcome.
Madeleine x