Equality Street is a half-day workshop designed to make your team feel more confident about working with disabled customers, clients or staff, and enabling you to make positive changes to company operations.
Underpinned by extensive knowledge of equality and access, as well as the core issues that impact disabled people, Equality Street can help you provide a more equitable and inclusive service, supporting you to meet internal equality targets or legal duties.
Through interactive learning methods, such as a spectrum exercise about language, a disabled trainer will guide your team through society’s attitudes, legislative progress and stereotypes about disabled people. Suitable for everyone, regardless of their role or seniority, the workshop will generate discussion around disability equality and provide a strong understanding of your disabled stakeholders’ needs. The knowledge and skills your team will gain, including the building of their confidence when interacting with disabled people, will apply across all areas of their work and motivate them to make a change at work and in other aspects of their lives.
For organisations keen to build on their community engagement, confidence in working with disabled people can be critical. Even when reaching out to non-disabled people, the themes of empathy and understanding other perspectives will prove invaluable. Additionally, demonstrating accessibility to disabled people, can support profile building with your clients, staff and the wider community.
Our flexible and bespoke workshops can be delivered in your premises or online. We can build in any specific areas that you’d like to address – just ask!
We have delivered this type of training workshop to over forty organisations, including Edinburgh International Festival, V&A Dundee, Marriott Hotels, Big Lottery Community Fund and Bernat Klein Foundation. We are also a Strategic Partner with Edinburgh Festival Fringe, supporting them to improve access for disabled artists and audiences.
