Inclusion support and professional development

The Social Deck offers services to empower and support you and your team to put inclusion into practice.

The Social Deck are using our expertise to help organisations put inclusion and accessibility into practice.

We bring together lived experience of disability and cultural diversity, with extensive field experience engaging and communicating with targeted and diverse communities. We’re active in applying current best practice accessible and inclusive communication and engagement and want to support organisations to do the same.

We can help with:

• inclusion strategy planning development and implementation
• professional development workshops
• tailored learning packages

We offer services to organisations of all sizes, with discounted rates and probono options available for not-for-profits to help advance inclusive practice:

Inclusion strategy planning, development and implementation

Establishing and embedding inclusive practice in your organisation can be more straightforward and economical than you may think. We can support you in the process of establishing an inclusion strategy that meets the needs and priorities of your organisation and stakeholders.

• From when you first begin to explore possibilities for an inclusion strategy, we can assist with identifying and mapping priorities and needs, and to guide you to useful resources.  
• We help you to draft an inclusion strategy and test it with your teams and stakeholders.  
• Once your strategy is in place, we offer tailored team capability-building and internal change process to ensure that it translates to practical application.  

We know first-hand the value of having a strategy and tools in your workplace – small or large – to support inclusion. Hear from our team in this video.

Professional development workshops in accessible communication and engagement (in-person or online)

We deliver interactive professional development workshops on:

• accessible and inclusive community and stakeholder engagement
• accessible and inclusive communication.

Workshops are suitable for all levels of your organisation’s team, introducing concepts and best practice for developing and delivering community engagement that includes and empowers diverse audiences and effectively meets varying access needs.  

We’ll arrange appropriate speakers in line with your team’s professional development goals for inclusion and accessibility.

Participants will gain awareness and understanding of what it means to be inclusive and how it adds value across all public and commercial communication and engagement. They will be introduced to practical resources and tools, and receive personalised guidance on integrating best practice in their work.

“Fantastic experience, professional and well-managed. The event was chock-a-block full of useful information and made me excited to think that we can make our events more accessible and it doesn't have to be too hard. Thanks for empowering us to start to better understand things from the perspective of people with disability, and to start to see how we can bring solutions forward. Excellent seminar!!!!”
– Attendee, online seminar on accessible engagement with people with disability

Tailored inclusion learning packages and coaching

We can design and adapt both self-driven learning modules and facilitated sessions tailored to the needs of your organisation about how accessibility and inclusion are and can be applied.

Each learning program is designed to equip your team with knowledge and tools to apply best practice inclusion and accessibility in the context of your organisation’s operations and objectives. We will work with you to pinpoint what your team needs from the learning package, including your priorities, the challenges faced and the opportunities you want to access as well as the resources that can support ongoing application and growth.  

Our coaching will support your team to understand inclusion as it exists in their work and to be able to discover, design and adapt solutions that advance their practice.

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