Join us for three days of learning, discovery, and design as we explore visual and inclusive processes of envisioning the future, and design ways to move forward and create change.
Valued Lives is being offered as a Residential Certificate Course to select thought leaders and emerging influencers of practice from across India. This body of knowledge was offered in India for the first time in 2016, and the impact was immense.
What is the starting point for establishing a vision alongside someone? For thinking about how to help a person move into a valued role? For helping someone develop deeper friendships? For helping someone get engaged more with the community? Like a bright red thread, the idea of the Culturally Valued Analogue runs through all SRV theory, providing such practical guidance on where to start and how to proceed with supporting someone with a disability to live a full life.
Work gives people a sense of purpose and self-worth. For many, it defines our identity and is a source of pride. Employment not only provides income and economic independence but also opportunities for rich social interactions and a sense of belonging.
For those with some knowledge of Social Role Valorization principles, and who are hungry for how to help people move into valued roles, this workshop is for you. How do you identify roles people might be interested in?
Across India, change leaders committed to better lives for people with developmental and psychosocial disability are talking about and learning about Social Role Valorization, a powerful set of ideas about how to assist people to have full, rich, meaningful lives.