People with lived experience are at the heart of FitzRoy’s Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training.
Every session is co-delivered by experienced trainers and people with lived experience of learning disability and autism.
Our co-trainers are active members of the training team. They help shape sessions, choose the experiences they want to share and bring their own perspective to conversations about communication, reasonable adjustments, being listened to and what good support means.
Their involvement gives participants the opportunity to hear directly from people with lived experience and think about how their own actions and decisions can affect the people they support.
Why our facilitators do this work
Our trainers and co-trainers want people to leave the training with a better understanding of the people they support and greater confidence to put what they have learned into practice.
That might mean asking for a reasonable adjustment, communicating differently, looking more closely at why someone is distressed or speaking up when someone’s needs are not being recognised.
For our co-trainers, it is also an opportunity to use their own experiences to influence the way people work across health and social care.
