Call for Workshops

Call for Workshop Proposals Open

Submit your proposal here

Please review the following Call for Workshop Proposals instructions and complete the application form to submit your proposal by the closing date of Monday, January 15, 2024.

1. Event Dates and Location
2. Key Issues and Topics
3. Sessions and Formats

Please note financial compensation will be available for presenters in an unpaid role.

Event Dates and Location

We will be presenting in Nanaimo, B.C. from May 30 to June 1, 2024, with our co-hosts Nanaimo Association for Community Living, BC Self-Advocate Leadership Network, and  Clay Tree Society.

Key Issues and Topics

Share your knowledge and experience as a workshop presenter. Inspire change, spark dialogue, generate new ideas, and deepen the learning. We are seeking workshop proposals and presentations on these key themes:

• Community & Disability Supports
• Early Years Supports
• Education & Child Care
• Employment & Skill Development
• Health & Wellness
• Housing & Income Supports

Within these key themes, we’re looking for insights that advance inclusion, starting with the individual and moving up from our grassroots to the global inclusion movement:

• Personal development: Advancing individual well-being, inclusion, and empowerment through improved health and wellness, sexual and relationship education, social and community engagement, leadership, and financial security.
• Professional development: Inspiration and practical tools for advancing careers in disability advocacy, including communication, networking, collaboration, leadership, and digital skills.
• Community development: Strengthening the grassroots capacity of families, groups, and communities to work collaboratively, drive change, and support inclusion.
• Advocacy: Advancing our global advocacy movement by deepening our shared understanding of challenges and solutions and identifying tools and strategies to build a stronger and more effective voice for inclusion.
• First Nations, Inuit, Metis, and Urban Indigenous Experiences: Stories of success, as well as topics around legacies of institutionalization, disparities in service or health outcomes, culturally sensitive services, and opportunities for collaboration. 

Sessions and Formats

We are interested in 60-minute interactive presentations that:

• Use person-first or identity-first language;
• Reflect the full inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of community life;
• Honour the experiences of Indigenous, multicultural, and LGBTQ2S+ communities;
• Address accessibility and universal design so that all attendees may participate fully;
• Promote evidence-based practices to attain full inclusion in all aspects of society; and,
• Align with Inclusion BC’s advocacy on current issues.

Submit your proposal here