Sport Manitoba
Anti-Ableism and Re-Imagining Sport

Workshop Description

This workshop builds on insights from the previous session, deepening participants' understanding of systemic patterns and the mental models that sustain inequities for disabled people within sport systems. This session will not focus on surface level actions. We will dive deep and engage with frameworks, insights and tools that can increase the likelihood of our efforts creating meaningful, lasting change. Applying both Social Innovation and Anti-Ableism, this session is designed to deepen our collective capacity to grapple with these complex challenges collaboratively, efficiently and impactfully.

This session will unpack deeply ingrained beliefs and assumptions that often shape decision-making and opportunities for people with disabilities in sport. Addressing these beliefs is crucial for creating lasting systemic change, as they influence the structures and dynamics that can perpetuate inequities.

By the end of the session, attendees will:

• Gain practical tools and frameworks to collaboratively approach systemic transformation.

• Strengthen their understanding of how systemic dynamics and mental models around disability often unintentionally reinforce or recreate inequities.

• Hear directly from community members to broaden our perspectives on the nature of the issues at hand.

• Clarify non-negotiables for an inclusive sport system to identify actions and lay the foundation for lasting, systemic change.

After this workshop there will be an opportunity to sign up for a follow-up individual or small group conversation with IX to capture anything missed. IX will then prepare a detailed summary report, and work to establish a small working group to sustain momentum. Our hope is to support Sport Manitoba to secure grant funding to support this work, and act as long-term partners in this process.