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Trainings & Workshops

“Trainings are participatory, engaging, educational and fun!”

Rhonda speaking to women with disabilities in Mexico City training.If you are looking for engaging and informative trainings or workshops, Rhonda is available to design and develop programs customized to your organization, community or corporation. Rhonda has also worked with embassies and missions. She has years of personal experience in addition to her vast knowledge of disability rights, inclusive development, law and policy.

Rhonda has a wide skill set to train on a range of topics and has the ability to bring personal passion and energy to inspire others. She excites and instill wonder with each participant. She is able to connect to each person in the room. Anyone can ‘train’;  yet, if you’re looking for someone who brings depth, insight, knowledge and experience, Rhonda is the trainer for you! She brings with her many personal stories and experiences and is able to connect with the heart of our shared human experience. After 20 years of doing this work, sharing the knowledge comes easily and through lived experiences and heart.

More information on availability, creative formats for and ideas on creating your training or workshop can be found on the page Workshop Details.

Some Topics Available Include:

  • Informative, personal and engaging trainings are available in the area of and for women with disabilities. Learn more about the laws and legal structures and ways to motivate and activate community. Rhonda will train on the importance of clear messaging and the effective advocacy skills needed for successful campaigns and outreach. Also part of these workshops are skills in building coalitions, reflective listening and other tools necessary for effective communication and campaigns.

  • These trainings will focus on how to make your development programming inclusive to ALL. This could be anything from a “Disability Inclusive Development 101” to deep discussions of what inclusion looks like within your organization.

    Workshops can include the basics of what this means, and will help you be aware of disability issues and how important it is to have inclusion in development programming, planning and execution.

    This area of offering could also expand to a full evaluation and analysis on the steps your organization can take in order to comply with the USAID disability policy, InterAction guidelines and other mandates for inclusion for ALL in your development programming.

  • How to have a progressive and current view on disability rights and individuals with disabilities in your work, media outreach, websites and other organizational publications. This can include language use, history of the disability movement, core laws and regulations, and much more!

  • This offering builds on Disability Rights 101 and offers specific guidance on how to be inclusive and aware of disability inclusion and implications in your planning, executing and evaluating the impact of your social justice projects, programs and initiatives.

  • How do you take all that you care about and all that you know and synthesize into an elevator speech, a nugget for the press or in a short message with a decision maker? This training will lead you through experiential exercises and hands-on guidance and practice in order to clarify and improve your pitch for greater effectiveness.

  • For advocates new to the disability rights lingo or would like a refresher on what is progressive and appropriate in terms of speaking with and about disability issues. This can be for the media — with clear, concise advice and guidance on how to portray people with disabilities in writing, print and film.

  • What issues are at the forefront of the disability policy world? Offering coaching or discussion space to talk through disability policy issues, their implications and issues for you to keep in mind as you enter this arena.

  • A specific evaluation and opportunity to get advice on the inclusion of people with disabilities in your office, corporation, or initiative. Learn how this phrase affects your planning and outreach in your work and for real inclusion and change!

  • How to use reflective listening, mediation and conflict resolution work in your advocacy and project implementation work to achieve greater and more powerful results.

  • In current times, we are all bombarded with excessive stimuli in politics and the media. Our bodies were are not built for so much negativity. This area of training will be supportive for the advocate to improve daily coping skills. This may include bullying, the “Me Too” movement or national trauma that is raising our childhood and/or life trauma.

    It’s time to learn new skills. It’s imperative to heal and look within. Because times change, we must act for ourselves and for the causes we believe in.

    Rhonda offers workshops to support the individual and the advocate who maneuver within the world of social justice. It is also offered through her world via Spiral Healing by Raven practice. These workshops are well-suited to non-profit organizations, international development organizations and politically-oriented entities.

     

     

  • Critical aspects to advocacy work include presence, the ability to listen, check-in with oneself and know what our feelings are. These pieces are often missing in the reactive politics and the “business-as-usual” approach to advocacy and social change. The world is a different landscape than it used to be — and we need to shift, learn and evolve with our advocacy — internally and externally.

    Rhonda offers workshops applicable to the advocacy and social justice world via her complementary Spiral Healing by Raven practice. These workshops well suited to non-profit organizations, international development organizations and politically-oriented entities will offer skills development to deepen advocacy current political reality. Times change and so must how we act both for ourselves and for the causes we believe in.

  • Hundreds of stories with a purpose are available to be woven into advocacy messaging, personal action, creating the life you desire, and how to self-care and heal trauma as an advocate, professional or in your personal life.

  • Do you have or have you lost limbs? Have a child born without limbs, lose a limb yourself? Life is not over! Come hear Rhonda talk about what worked and didn’t work being raised as a bilateral amputee, student, disability rights advocate. Learn what rights you or your child have and how to become a part of the local, national and global disability rights movement.