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AAIN Professional Learning Opportunities

The All-Access Inclusion Network recognizes that inclusion evolves over time. Businesses and organizations should always be looking for new ways to encourage diversity, increase awareness, and expand inclusive practices. To support these efforts, AAIN provides opportunities for continued learning and professional development. Through bi-annual meetings, speakers share their expertise on relevant topics. These virtual and in-person gatherings also provide the opportunity for networking, brainstorming, and idea sharing among professionals and organizational representatives.

Network meetings are open to organizations that have shown an ongoing commitment to expanding inclusion. These organizations have completed our online basic training and continue to work towards true inclusion with the support of AAIN.

Webinars  +

Webinars

  • Guest speakers, to be announced prior to each webinar.
  • Open registration
  • 1-hour, 4 times a year
  • Recording will be available

Upcoming:
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
11am-12pm CST
Register here

Topic: Reducing Access Fatigue in Our Cultural Spaces
"Access Fatigue," an experience coined by Dr. Annika Konrad, is the fatigue that comes from constantly having to explain one's accessibility needs, disability, and having to ask for accommodations to meet their needs. Together we'll unpack this concept, and apply it to people with different types of disabilities. We will explore how we can reduce the fatigue our guests face so more of their focus can be on their experience with their friends or family, and less of a burden of having to advocate for what they need.

Speaker: Christena Gunther (she/her)
Bringing Chicago together around the intersection of disability and the arts was Christena’s main aim as she started Cultural Access Collaborative in 2013. Having over a decade of experience in cultural accessibility from a variety of cultural organizations, including the Metropolitan Museum and Lincoln Center, she currently serves as Assistant Director of Disability Services at Adler University. Thanks to her brother who has Down syndrome, cultural accessibility became her passion as they visited museums and attended plays together. Christena speaks internationally about cultural accessibility, especially the importance of establishing a local access knowledge network in one’s own community.

Community of Practice  +

Community of Practice

  • A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals. Communities of practice often focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance professional practices.
  • 1-hour, 4 times a year

Upcoming:
Thursday, September 26, 2024
10am-11am CST
Registration required: https://redcap.link/CoP_AAIN

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