Gopan Pisharody
One can get an inkling of the impact of the Social Role Valorization ideas on the attendees at SRV 5.o can be gleaned from their social media posts and direct communication back to us. It is extraordinary, and we are fortunate to get to teach these ideas.
Please accept my deepest gratitude for affording me the chance to imbibe the knowledge of SRV in its full measure. Your infectious energy which we witnessed during the Workshop bears testimony to your work and engagement through the length and breadth of India, which has created this amazing network of SRV empowered individuals and organisations who are positively contributing. All the amazing facilitators for SRV 5.0 are such powerful change agents; I consider it to be my singular privilege that my formal initiation into the world of SRV has been through them, under your watchful guidance.
There has been a churn, which continues�� . I am certain that no matter what, I am committed to remain to the far-right side of the bell curve.
Sudeshna Chowdhury
it is a great privilege for me to be a part of SRV 5.0 which is really an eye opener course which deeply touched the soul and helped me to see the world in the best ways.
Sarmistha Dey
It's an honour to be part of the SRV family
A very enriching and life changing experience.... Left me with questions that are really intriguing and messages that instill in me thoughts that I ought to become a better version of myself... and treat the world better 1 | Page
Preeja Balan
I was privileged to be one of the participants in the 'Valued Lives Social Role Valorization 5.0'-An invitational course conducted by Keystone Institute India
Around 50 of us from across the country came together- centre heads, individuals from different parent advocacy groups, and professionals from various spheres. We had brainstorming sessions from 6th-9th August and the content was geared upon the concept of Social Role Valorization and creating lasting change to make society more inclusive. The training was conducted by Betsy Neuville and her team (Sudha Nair, Aparna Das , Ranjana RoyChakraborty, Manisha Bhattacharya and Shabnam Rahman).
A special thanks to Grace Daniel for making us look beautiful with your photography skills and feel beautiful with your heartfelt laughter. Thanks, Minu and Prashansa for organising and coordinating the event.
It was a wonderful opportunity to think together as a family of SRVians and delve deep into matters that require thoughtful actions to facilitate inclusion. I also got to interact with professionals from different parts of the matters that require thoughtful actions to facilitate inclusion. I also got to interact with professionals from different parts of the country. This also allowed me to get an insight into their work in the inclusion domain. I also heard some inspiring stories of change. On a personal front, I also got to network with likeminded professionals and make some new lifelong relationships.
Special thanks to my fellow SRVians 5.0. This association will go a long way! Cheers to us We have a long way ahead!
Ruma Chaturvedi
SRV 5.0 was an exhilarating experience .. Meeting professionals, parent professionals and advocates working in the field of disability from across India ...
Learning from their rich and diverse experiences that how collectively we can work on an ability based model for our differently abled population ....
Making new friends and catching up with the mentors in the field who at some point of time had set the base right for me ...
Just can't wait to share it with my colleagues and implement SRV at #PKMC_celebrating_diverse_abilities
Grace Daniel
Networking is not about just connecting people. It's about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities ... welcoming a whole group of genuine change makers and facilitators from the SRV 5.0 groups !
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Thank you Keystone Institute India and Betsy Neuville for making the powerful AISRV network stronger by bringing in such amazing change makers from all over the nation and equipping them with the powerful principles of Social Role Valorisation you all are trully amazing Leela Raj, Aparna Das, Ranjana RoyChakraborty, Manisha Bhattacharya , Sudha Nair, Shabnam Rahman!!! You guys are the best !!!
Aparna Das
What an amazing opportunity! This team of 8 led the teaching of SRV 5.0, and we learnt invaluable lessons from each other. It's such a privilege to be part of a network that works to bring the good things of life to devalued groups and individuals! Thank you, Keystone Institute India!
Mohua Roy
The experience of learning was so rewarding. A course on Social Role Valorization was intense, thought provoking and so much more than just learning. Thank you @keystoneindia for this wonderful journey. I hope to work on the knowledge and look at the world through SRV lenses.
Sudha Nair
VALUED LIVES SRV 5.0 AUG 6-9 2024
A confluence of change makers converging to explore, for the people they serve, pathways to access the good things of life! And then diverging, to carry precious insights and practices to their doorstep!
Betsy Neuville mentor extraordinaire who made it happen!
Keystone Institute India jyot se jyot jalate chalo
Nikita Nath
I wanted to write this post right after completing the Valued Lives SRV 5.0: Invitational Course on Social Role Valorisation. I imagined I would write something like an SRV grad finally! or completed this excellent course! or some version of such positive words. However, this course deserved a few days of introspection on my work as a professional and a person as a whole.
I always believed that I followed all neuro-affirmative principles, all versions of inclusion, and a billion other pre-conceived notions I had about myself as a professional and a person... were very much not valid, or parts of them weren't. I was floored by how little I understood the concept of 'devalued' people in its truest sense.
The course principles are shaped by Wolf Wolfensberger's concept of Social Role Valorization. Since finishing the course, I also reviewed the course materials, and 3 | Page
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books written by Wolfensberger. Many things we discussed in the conference centered around 'creating socially valued roles.' After recollecting everything in my mind, I was left with one question: Why were we not taught these concepts in college? Along with centering concepts around understanding disorders, disabilities, and other impairments, if we were also taught how to orient our minds to creating more socially valued roles for devalued people, maybe we would all be doing better as professionals altogether.
Another thing that feels like a hard hit is - that what Wolfensberger spoke about about devalued people is still valid in many sections of society. When I did my internships back in college, almost all were in some institutions or centers where individuals with intellectual disability were kept there away from society. Most would be engaged in work like beading, sorting, and other age-inappropriate activities, which I now know are called 'life-wasting.'
There were many points during the course where we were discussing things that were bringing lumps in my throat because of the brutality of some of the realities like 'death-making'-a word that Dr. Wolfensberger coined meaning the many ways in which people could be “made dead” figuratively and literally. In so many ways, I feel we have all been involved in this system of death-making of devalued people.
It isn't easy to unpack the learnings we have received on looking at people a certain way. But courses like the SRV hit you. This is not a concept that leaves you anytime soon if you have even a bit of resilience to make things better for people who are devalued around you. The best part of this concept is that it holds up a mirror to you; you see a reflection of what you have been doing.
I hope I can keep these concepts alive in me not only as knowledge but practically through my work as well!
So grateful to the organizers-Keystone India! I am left with so many thoughts, memories, and new friends.
Shashi
I recently attended a training on Social Role Valorization and am still processing the experience. While it was reassuring to see that Leap Years is on the right path, it was definitely disconcerting to confront my own biases and assumptions. I suppose a little discomfort is good, even necessary, for growth.
Anjana Sathyabodha
The journey of being a facilitator of inclusion wouldn’t have been complete without this generous offering called *Social Role Valorisation* (SRV) by Keystone Human Services, India.
Many thanks to Elizabeth Neuville, Leela Raj Manisha Bhattacharya @Ranjana Chakraborty Shabnam Rahman Sudha Nair Aparna Das for imparting knowledge and sharing valuable experiences & examples of creating valued roles for everyone in
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the society. Blown away by Dr. Wolfensberger’s concepts & his work. The content was hard-hitting too!
To me, SRV is again the *beginning of many beginnings* in the role of a *Speech Language Therapist* I am hoping to infuse the concepts of SRV in all that I do. Looking forward to a more meaningful, more challenging & a more enriching experience for my role as well as for other valued roles we hope to create ��
I’m so grateful & happy to be an SRV 5.0 grad!! ����
It was such a pleasure meeting people/participants doing such great work in the inclusion space.
Thanks to everyone who was part of SRV 5.0 ����
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