Fostering an inclusive environment, culture, and community that welcomes everyone.
In the everyday dominant culture, which centers colonial, cis-heteronormative, white, upper class, neuro-typical, thin, able-bodied individuals over historically disenfranchised people from the Global North, we’re intentionally and unintentionally leaving people behind.
We get stuck in performative social justice actions instead of digging into the root causes and the frameworks of change needed to embody inclusivity.
For example, is your work environment welcoming for disabled people?
Is your website and user experience accessible for visually impaired people using screen reader technology?
Are your chairs and toilet stalls accessible for fat people to use comfortably?
Is there a gendered, racialized, or disabled pay gap in various roles and levels within the company?
Is your board or senior leadership team mainly made up of white individuals?
Are your processes and support systems neurodivergent friendly?
Are you uncomfortable using pronouns for gender non-conforming individuals or do you insist on only using legal names?
Do you allow a culture where people can casually comment on homosexuality, people’s bodies, mental health, or other dehumanizing comments without considering the impact on others?
The problem is you don’t know that you are a part of the problem.
Your ignorance isn’t bliss.
Instead, it’s causing harm.
And you have no idea what to do about it or where to begin to create more accessible environments. So instead of researching, you mimic the performative actions you see around you. Or you ask for a checklist of things to do that may not serve the people in your room? But, the more challenging work is knowing who you are as an organization;
Recognizing who is already in the room, and creating an environment that makes them feel safe, valued, heard, and centered.
I get it. It’s overwhelming, but the important thing is you care, and you’re ready to do something about it!
Introducing
The Future is Accessible
Perfect For: Business owners, community organizers, and non-profit founders—anyone who works with teams, clients, communities with individuals that have access needs.
A place to learn without judgment, ask tough questions and host nuanced conversations around accessibility from a few essential perspectives that impact us as business owners, community organizers, and non-profit founders. Because in this day and age, accessibility is no longer a nice-to-have.
The pandemic has highlighted to many business owners and non-profits founders how inaccessible their day-to-day operations are for themselves, their teams (whether employees or freelancers), and their customers and communities. And how the inequities in the workplace impact the rest of our lives, relationships, and communities.
During this on-demand conference and our live trainings, we will discover there are many ways to solve this problem. But, the bigger solution is that you have to be willing to make the mistakes, dig into the conversations, and do the work to rethink accessibility.
We don’t get to bypass the hard work and challenging conversations. Instead, we must understand this process requires growing pains and confronting our own biases and fears.
The Future is Accessible is a 6 - week live, interactive, online course geared towards supporting you and your organization to make the necessary shifts for accessibility for your team, your clients, your stakeholders, and your wider community.
Inside The Future Is Accessible On-Demand Conference, we have an incredible line-up of speakers who shared everything from accessibility for caregivers and parents, to neurodivergence, to gender and sexuality.
We center the voices of people marginalized by global systems of supremacy: Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer, trans, impoverished, undocumented, disabled, neurodivergent, and fat who are fighting for the rights of all.
You’ll walk away with: a better understanding of the landscape of accessibility, your company’s bespoke strategy for implementation, how to put your strategy into action this quarter and going forward.
What people are saying...
'Anuradha has a powerful perspective on building an ethical business that is grounded in knowledge, experience and embodiment - and well worth paying close attention to and learning from!'
- Romek Goj
"If you are an entrepreneur or professional or parent or just any human invested in healing internalized capitalism, moving ethically and, particularly if you're BIPOC, really prioritizing being ethical and kind to yourself in and outside of business, I couldn't recommend a program more. An instructor like Anuradha is a complete gem.
The course, the readings and discussions also deeply enrich my own professional work with burnout recovery coaching for professionals and entrepreneurs, with many clients being ND and/or chronically ill. It's helping me emerge from a cycle of chronic overworking and undercharging, something I've worked on with my own burnout recovery healing as a deeply marginalized person.
Oh and the guest speakers are phenomenal as well. Also Anuradha has taken great care to make sure the course is accessible to folks with various access needs.
Truly an absolute pleasure to be a part of the course and community."
- Jay Asooli
What's Inside The Future is Accessible?
Six Live Sessions 2022 You’ll have access to six live 90-minute sessions in 2022 June 2022 at TBD. Recordings will be available with transcripts. * Dates and times, subject to change.
The Future Is Accessible Conference Sessions You’ll receive access to the 10 Future is Accessible pre-recorded conference interviews, including transcripts.
One 30-Minute 1:1 Laser Session With Anuradha Here is your opportunity to get bespoke support for you and your organization. Walk away with your next quarters’ accessibility strategy.
Accessibility Glossary Learn essential social justice terminology and how to use it. Consider this a jumpstart to your social awareness journey.
Fast Action Bonus 1: Website Accessibility Series (Only available until April 30, 2023) A resource created to support you in creating an accessible website.
Fast Action Bonus 2: Write Your Accessibility Statement Series (Only available until April 30, 2023) A specially designed resource to help you craft an accessibility statement for your website, for internal documents, to use in courses and so on.
Regular Price, Sliding Scale: £1000 - (allows us to be fully paid for our labor and allows us to grow for the future) £900- (allows us to cover our PWYC applicants from the Global South) £800- (covers the true cost of the course and all the administrative costs) <--- recommended price £700- (covers the speakers fees) £600 - (covers most of the administrative costs and the running costs of the course) Pay-What-You-Can - starts at £50 (for those in the Global South, where the exchange rate works against them and the costs in their own currency would make it difficult to attend the course)
If you want to attend with a team member, make sure they also purchase a seat. *For larger teams or corporate clients, please get in touch with us here.
Bonuses Available if you book into the course before April 30, 2023. Details below. Payments by PayPal, Stripe, Google Pay - the course is paid in 2 installments. Get in touch if you want to pay in full or want to be invoiced instead.
We will cover: Module 1 Priorities & Planning - In this session, we'll assess your organization's current position, goals and priorities in order to determine your overall strategy for inclusive practices. Module 2 Recruitment and Hiring - We will look at your current recruitment and hiring practices and discuss strategies to leverage your existing policies and enhance your current frameworks. Module 3 Marketing & Sales - We'll be taking a look at how you connect with your customers and the wider community, then device strategies to increase your marketshare with inclusive practices. Module 4 Onboarding - We will take a deep dive on the journey and experience for new starters at your organization and ways to make it more inclusive and accessible. Module 5 Company Culture - In this session, we'll dissect and interogate your culture in order to pivot into a truly inclusive and accessible workplace culture. Module 6 Corporate Social Responsibility - We will assess how you integrate your coporate culture and values to the outside world in terms to be confident that you are in alignment with your mission.
Course Dates: June 1 - July 6, 2023. We meet on Thursdays at 6 pm London/ 1 pm New York / 10 am L.A. / 7 pm Paris
Accessibility: All calls will be recorded. Live closed captioning available via Zoom. Transcripts and videos will be available 48 hours after each session. Discussions will be continued in Mighty Networks.
Three reasons why you should think about accessibility:
It’s the right thing to do. Quite frankly, if the pandemic taught us anything, it is how necessary accommodations were to support ourselves, our teams, our clients, and our communities.
Legally, we are accountable and responsible for putting in provisions under the Equalities Act (UK) and Americans with Disabilities Act (US) and beyond. Our goal needs to be disability justice and building inclusive spaces, not just ticking the legal boxes.
It makes it easier for people to work with us when we make accommodations and get into conversations about access needs.
And finally, If you're organization is not accessible, you're missing out on opportunities and building relationships.
There is never going to be the perfect time to start this process. It is going to be messy, uncomfortable, and maybe even overwhelming. But, starting now is better than doing nothing at all.
So jump in The Future is Accessible and let’s get this conversation started!
When I get to learn from Anuradha, I always feel I am tilling up a field and Anuradha is helping me plan and strategize what to plant. We met individually and Anuradha helped me come up with a multi-stage plan for a troublesome aspect of my business that left me feeling confident and clear and like I was working from my values rather than having them be separate from my work. Anuradha is showing me how to plant the values in the field that is my work. I am immensely grateful and highly recommend Anuradha’s teaching and consulting. Almost every time after hearing Anuradha speak I have gone directly to make improvements to my website, my mission statement, my inclusivity statements, etc. I am not only inspired to take action, I have concrete ideas from Anuradha in how to do it.'
- Joseph Kindred
‘I’ve been so enjoying what I’ve been able to participate in so far. I’m deeply listening to the ancestral and legacy conversation with Karen Larbi today. It’s such a powerful way to re-stitch into place and presence in my decolonizing journey. I treasure this work you’re doing. ’ -M.D.
‘Thanks so much for the access to the talks. Even just knowing this was on was a huge mood boost to be honest. Keep up the fantastic work!’ - A.S.
Anuradha's work was deep yet full of sacred levity. She was so generous and covered everything I was hoping for plus much more. Her ability to create a container of immediate trust and expansive possibility made the work that much easier to receive. I felt seen and heard in my unique complexity yet not alone and with pragmatic ways of going forward with a most challenging socio-political ethos. Trancendent and grounded. Playful and serious. Thank you so much.
