Disability EQUALITY Training Series

102: Deepening Your Self-Advocacy

DETS Course 102: Deepening Your Self-Advocacy is a basic level course that builds on the results from Course 101. The twelve one-hour sessions in Course 102 to help your group members:

  • build personal power,
  • learn about the rights movement for disability equality and how it applies to them, and
  • act together to contribute to the community.

These participatory, fun exercises will continue to strengthen your members’ identity as “self-advocates.”

102: Deepening Your Self-Advocacy

Course Information

  • Enrollment in this course closed on .

Sessions

Session 1

a – Sixteen
b – You Don’t Say
c – I Want To Live Like This
Session 2

a – Practice Assertiveness
b – Asking and Offering With Assertiveness
Session 3

a – Practice Using I Statements
b – Energizer: Guess What I’m Good At
Session 4

a – Skills for Disagreements
b – The Spat in the Hat
Session 5

a – Intro to CRPD
b – Four Rights of Respect
Session 6

Four Rights of Inclusion
Session 7

Four Rights of Change
Session 8

a – My Favorite Right
b – Worksheet–Open Doors
Session 9

Poetry Power
Session 10

Laws Make Our Community Better
Session 11

Field Trip
Session 12

Review and Celebrate