Objectives
The Network aims to find new answers to its guiding question: “How can we make sure that support services respond to the individual needs of persons with disabilities and empower them to take part in the community? What kind of training & learning is necessary to make this happen?”
The partnership identifies three ‘keys’ which are instrumental to achieving change and full inclusion of persons with disabilities in society:
- Key 1: Developing person-centred organisations
- Key 2: Fostering community inclusion and development
- Key 3: Providing inclusive training and learning for all
On this basis, the project seeks to equip organisations, service-providers and persons with disabilities with the knowledge, values and skills necessary to make sure that citizens with disabilities can actively participate in education, work, leisure, life and relationships in their community.
Implementation
To achieve a transformative change towards empowering community-based support, the Network is guided by an innovative model of social change – Theory U – developed by Otto Scharmer (www.presencing.com).
The theory demonstrates an understanding of social innovation that calls people to move outside their familiar assumptions and patterns of behaviour. Instead, it offers a series of practices and social techniques to move outside the taken for granted assumptions.
