A disability question

[Corbaz Catherine]

Dear Melissa,
I've never done a World café with disabled people. However i've done  
an OST with 30 peoples, among them 1 blind, 1 deaf, many peoples  
where either not seeing well or not hearing well. Some of them had  
concentration problems and some where in wheel chairs. It was quiet a  
challenge, but with patients and assistance it worked !

I talked with some about doing world café in similar conditions. I  
wont say it's not possible. If there is respect among the people and  
patience, that will help. the main the difficulties I had in the  
above mentioned OST, was the noise, which might be even more a  
problem with World cafe. It was a problem because some people had  
concentration  difficulties. some others needed explanations and we  
had to whisper in their ears. So they where really tired at the end  
of the day.

You have also to thought of describing the space to blind people. For  
them a Wc is better, because they like having a table in front of  
them. For deaf people, they cannot look at the signers and read at  
the same time... So. Besides you have to thing that reading  
competencies might not be very good, if they are born deaf. For  
people with learning disabilities, one word patience and respect of  
the others. Last, every human being is different, the same for  
handicapped people, to blind will not necessarily have the same needs  
for assistance and so on.

So, I'm ready to give your further advice if you like, on or outside  
the list. Anyway, I'm looking forward to know how it works, because i  
think facilitating groups with different types of handicapped is one  
on the most challenging thing I ever had to do.

Regards form Switzerland,



Catherine Corbaz
Facilitation & Forum ouvert
Roseaux 20
CH-2503 Bienne
+41 32 323 38 43
+41 79 794 38 55
c.corbaz at hispeed.ch
http://www.c2f2.net




Le 17 avr. 09 à 11:18, Melllissa Norman a écrit :

> Hi everyone
>
> I hope you all are well. I have a question, it is related to World  
> Cafe but I know many of you do both OS and World Cafe. In a few  
> weeks I am running a world cafe event with quite a few disabilities  
> deaf, blind, physical and learning disabilities as well as non  
> disabled people, in one room for a day debating their needs for a  
> website project.
>
> Am feeling that this could be a little bit of a challenge and  
> wondered if anyone has done anything similar? We will have signers  
> and am hoping that by talking through ideas, at the table, writing  
> them down and viewing them at the end on the wall we are already  
> covering different ways of taking in information but would love to  
> hear of any tips and ideas that can help make this event successful.
>
>   1. Thank you all for reading :-)
>
>
> take care
>
> Mel
> Mellissa Norman
> www.media-sauce.org
> www.one-media.org
>
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