As a disability advocate, presentations, workshops, and consultations are one of the most direct ways for me to raise disability awareness and work with my clients to create more inclusive and accessible spaces. And let’s be real, it’s also what helps me pay the bills and keep the blog up! Feel free to check out each service section, or skip right to the bottom to request a quote if you already know exactly what you’re looking for!
“Disabled people know disability better than anyone – there is no substitute for lived experience, and no textbook that can tell you what it is like to be disabled.”
At Canada’s UN Side event on employment and economic security
My Approach
Carly Fox Disability Advocacy offers events, trainings, and consultations designed to guide diverse audiences through a variety of important and emerging issues to arrive at a more informed, confident, and empowering approach to disability inclusion and accessibility. Drawing from her own experience becoming disabled at 16 and having her entire worldview fundamentally changed, Fox believes in creating compassionate, empathetic, and empowering spaces designed to allow for authentic discussion and well-intentioned exploration in order to support non-disabled allies moving from disability awareness to disability acceptance. Fox also draws from her time in by-and-for disability organizations to host empowering safe spaces for disabled and neurodivergent individuals aiming to improve their self-advocacy skills, develop cross-disability solidarity, and effectively communicate their concerns with decision- and policy-makers.
Events
Whether it’s a keynote presentation, a panel, or a cozy fireside chat, I love the opportunity public speaking creates to connect with an audience and share messages that will deeply resonate with them! I am always up for a challenge and love to push myself to speak on new subjects – but the tried and true topics often revolve around invisible disabilities, neurodiversity, and youth engagement. I take great pride in ensuring an accessible and engaging experience for all kinds of audiences – and am a big fan of providing both slides and scripts in advance to help everyone get the most they can out of these shared experiences.
Selected Events
- Neurodiversity at Hyundai Canada
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Manitoba Accessibility Office
- Employment and Economic Security at the UN Disability Conference
- Youth Transitions at Beyond Limits Canada
Training
I love immersing myself in workplace culture and authentically connecting with your employees to deliver authentic, compassionate, and empowering training sessions on accessibility, disability inclusion, and anti-ableism! Trainings generally include an overview of basic concepts and events, knowledge-testing exercises, prompts for authentic discussion, and direct connections to your organization’s mandate and activities! While each workshop is uniquely tailored to the organization, I aim to provide relevant workbooks, takeaway activities, and further learning resource kits to ensure your organization is fully equipped to carry on the work that we completed together.
Selected Workshops
- Self-Advocacy for Employees with Disabilities at Algonquin College
- Disability 101 at uOttawa’s Feminist Resource Centre
Consultations
Consultations are an incredible place for organizations just beginning their commitment to start understanding workplace barriers and effective inclusion activities, and for those experienced organizations wanting to ensure they’re grasping critical issues in a reflective and responsive manner. While all consultations are incredibly specific to the project, team, and workplace, I always aim to provide a number of guidelines, best practices, and reference tools to guide both the work we do together, and your organization’s future endeavours!
Consultations are done on a confidential basis to protect client privacy.