'The World is your Oyster' -  Workshops for students

Objectives

Saltwater Creations provide a face to face, interactive, real life story-telling workshop, breaking down perceptions of disability and creating understanding of ability, in a fun and stimulating environment. Interactive tasks and face to face questions, will enable children to air their thoughts and feelings in a comfortable and familiar environment. Inspirational and motivational stories will inspire students to ‘think big’ and ‘never give up’ both in their educational and personal life. Empowerment tools and real life activity examples brings the workshop alive, and leaves the students ready to challenge themselves to be the best they can be!

Workshop subject include focus on; resilience, disability awareness, empowerment, volunteering and citizenship, well-being and 'ability' to be active and achieve.

Aims

• Build resilience, confidence and perseverance in children and young people
• Provide empowerment tools for young people to be the best they can
• Create unlimited beliefs
• Develop 'can do' attitudes
• Understand the similarities between disabled and non-disabled people
• Break down barriers, challenge and change perception of what ‘disability’ and 'ability' is

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

• Understanding similarities and differences
• Judge situations and individuals with empathy and understanding
• How to become empowered!

 Skills

• Build confidence and communication skills around people with a disability
• Think and operate without limited beliefs
• Respect and support fellow students in the classroom
• Enhance abilty as individuals to succeed and beome empowered
• Adapt to, and accept change with a positive attitude

Values

• Demonstrate inclusion and equality to colleagues
• Respond to others peoples values and needs with an open mind
• Empathise with disability