Being Person-Centred is Everyone's Business

VALID in partnership with field will be presenting a two day seminar series for individuals, families and paid workers committed to positive change and real inclusion.

The seminar will include a number of keynote speakers who are committed to building more inclusive communities across the globe and who are working toward more desirable futures for people with disabilities and their communities.

Seminar Details:

• When:          Thursday 10 and Friday 11 May 2012

• Where:         Rydges Event Centre, Bell City, 215 Bell Street, Preston

Keynote Speakers:  John O'Brien & Connie Lyle-O'Brien

• Both work across the world in partnership with a group of friends from 12 countries.
• John is affiliated with the Center on Human Policy (US), the National Development Team for Services to People with Learning Difficulties (UK), and the Marsha Forest Centre: Inclusion, Family, Community (Canada)
• Connie is part of the Responsive Systems Associates, developing methods for helping people learn about the principle of normalisation through PASS and created Framework for Accomplishment, an intensive learning experience for people concerned with improving service program quality
   

Jack Pearpoint & Lynda Kahn

• Jointly with John O'Brien and Marsha Forest (deceased), Jack created person-centred approaches such as PATH, MAPS and Circles of Friends
• Jack is the founding director of the Marsha Forest Centre: Inclusion, family and Community
• Lynda served as Rhode Island's Director of the Division of Developmental Disabilities. Her experience with this has taken her from institution to community settings, involving values-based person-centred practice as a means to facilitate individual and organisational change
   

Further information:
To be kept informed, contact VALID on 03 9416 4003 or field at leonie.davey@field.org.au

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