Embrace Within
Solutions: Insights
Embrace Within Solutions' objectives are to provide performances, presentations, trainings, and workshops. They may be done with me solely or with a dynamic team.
Locally, statewide, nationwide, and international levels
Small groups in homes to large audiences on stages
Outcomes are to provide:
Benefits from variety of themes and topics
Established safe space with engaging hands-on activities
Capitivating and interesting resources
Participants to leave with their hidden gems and abilities to move forward to their next stepping stone
Recent Embrace Within Solutions Learning Opportunities:
Family Week #3 & #4 workshops with Deaf and Hearing parents
Parents of Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing Children and Kids of Deaf Adults
Hadley Institute Carl's Village
Brooklyn, Michigan
Benefits of Family Bonding Activitiess
Discover our Identities within our Families
Expectations & Assumptions: Buzzers & Techniques
Parenting with Prioritizings and Self Care
THINK Strategies
Conner Prairie's "Speaking Out on Civil and Voting Rights" - 4th of July Weekend
Fishers, Indiana
Performed as Helen Keller on Helen Keller's Speech, "Why Men Need Womean Suffrage" October 17, 1915
Taste of Protactile (PT)
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Conference
Muncie, Indiana
Provided hands-on PT training in ten rotations of VR counselors, staff, administration, and community VR alliance
Worked with a team of ten DeafBlind PT Trainers
Workshop development and preparations on PT training in ten rotations of VR counselors, staff, administration, and community VR alliances
New England DeafBlind Retreat with DeafBlind Support, Advocacy, and Network
Griswold, Connecticut
Engaged and utilized full PT language made with DeafBlind particpants wihtin variety of indoor/outdoor activities
Provided PT training to sixteen CoNavigators
Retreat developments and preparations
Worked with a team of five DeafBlind staff
"Scopes of DeafBlind Leadership & Allyship"
LEAD BA program at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Rochester, New York
"History of DeafBlind Individuals and Communities"
ASL High School Students
Fishers, Indiana
"Working with CoNavigators & PT Training"
Hoosier DeafBlind Alliances (DeafBlind PT Team Training)
Indianapolis, Indiana
"Scopes of Indiana DeafBlind Community and Culture"
Indiana Association of the Deaf (Co-Presenter)
Indianapolis, Indiana
"Manage the Monsters in Your Mind: Your Inner Power & Positive Energies"
CACRA and five local workshops
Indianapolis, Indiana
"10 Talents of a Mindful and Efficient Leader"
Worcester Deaf Mental Health Center
Worcester, Massachusetts
National Association of the Deaf
Hartford, Connecticut
"Discovering your Gems within your Talents and Skills"
Illinois DeafBlind Training and Retreat
Chicago, Illinois
Embrace Within Solutions 2026