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Description

Disability Awareness: Moving Past Assumptions, Speaking and Acting Appropriately

A single session to replace assumptions and awkwardness with clear reference points and practical everyday behaviours

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

The word disability immediately brings to mind a wheelchair, yet most situations are invisible. Within teams, discomfort prevails. People are unsure how to address a colleague, whether to offer help, or how to react to a workplace adjustment that appears unfair. Silence sets in and the same clumsy moments keep recurring.

A short module delivered in person or virtually and open to all employees. You identify the main categories of situations and what they change at work. You examine your own assumptions and the origin of clumsy reactions. You practise ways of speaking and acting that can be applied as soon as you return to your team.

Learning objectives

  • Distinguish the main categories of disability situations and their effects at work
  • Identify the assumptions that shape reactions within a team
  • Adopt vocabulary that describes the situation without reducing the person to it
  • Respond appropriately to a request for help or to the refusal of that help
  • Identify what a workplace adjustment changes in a team's day-to-day organisation

What makes this programme different

Short experiential exercises that let participants feel a sensory or mobility constraint
Work on sentences actually heard at work, reviewed and reformulated as a group
Dedicated time for the questions nobody dares to raise in a team meeting

Programme

1Understanding What We Are Talking About

Invisible situations and their effects at work

  • Main categories of situations and the variety of their consequences
  • The changing and often invisible nature of many situations
  • The difference between an impairment and the situation created by the work environment
  • What formal recognition of a disability generally involves

2Questioning Your Own Assumptions

Preconceived ideas, discomfort and clumsy reactions

  • Where the concerns expressed within teams come from
  • Hurtful phrasings and possible alternatives
  • Reacting to differences in treatment perceived as unfair
  • The place of humour and the limits to set

3Acting Day to Day

Welcoming, cooperating and offering useful help

  • Welcoming a new colleague and informing the team
  • Offering help and accepting a refusal
  • Organising collective work around a workplace adjustment
  • Internal resource people to call upon within the company

Who is it for

Any employee, manager or team member currently working with, or likely to work with, a person with a disability.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.