Dive into the world of living with a physical disability

How does it feel to enter a building as someone with visual impairment or in a wheelchair? In this immersion session, you'll step into the shoes of someone with a disability. Together with disability experts, you'll explore solutions to eliminate barriers.

→ Experience the perspective of someone with a physical disability firsthand.

→ Engage in dialogue about your experiences with peers and disability experts.

→ Take home concrete tips to make your services, workplace, or products more inclusive.

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foto: © Judith Desmyttere

Program

1.Experiential exercises: step into the shoes of a person with a physical disability. Each participant will experience tasks and courses designed to simulate blindness, hearing impairment, or using a wheelchair. (A Flemish Sign Language interpreter is needed to support experts with hearing impairments).

2.Reflection on experience: we will engage in dialogue with other participants and disability experts, initially in small groups and then with the full group. From this reflection, we will deduce practical principles related to accessibility in terms of support, communication, and environment. Disability experts will give several practical tips.

3.Insights: we will conclude the session by sharing insights gained and providing an overview of general principles of inclusion and accessibility. With these insights and principles, you can immediately take concrete steps towards progress within your company or organization.


  1. Experiential physical disability exercise
    Participants are assigned a physical disability upon arrival (sitting in a wheelchair, reduced vision or hearing, etc.). They are then challenged to go through a customer journey with their disability. During this exercise the participants are confronted with various barriers (registering at the reception, taking the elevator, getting coffee, etc.).
  2. Persona mapping physical disability
    After the experiential exercise, extensive time is taken for reflection in separate groups and according to the type of disability. A co-lecturer (disability expert) also participates in each reflection group. The intention is for each reflection group to draw up a persona that maps out the main characteristics.
  3. Exchange in group
    Based on the drawn-up personas, the most important insights from each reflection group are shared with the other groups. There is room to ask questions and we provide a number of general principles regarding accessibility for each type of disability. The co-lecturers complement this with practical tips and tricks.

Practical information

  • target audience
    companies and organizations that want to gain insight into living with a disability
  • duration
    half day
  • group
    from 5 to 20 participants
  • location
    this workshop preferably takes place in the company or organization

Dive into the world of living with a physical disability
The immersive course has motivated us to work even further on inclusion.
Alexander Alonso, General manager BD Benelux

Any questions? Stien, Kurt and Marijn are happy to tell you more.

Stien Van Obbergen

account manager companies and organisations Meer info

Kurt Vanhauwaert

account manager companies and organisations Meer info

Marijn Leroy

account manager companies and organisations / team leader Meer info