Embrace Within Solutions: Insights

Embrace Within Solutions Objectives

Embrace Within Solutions provides performances, presentations, training sessions, and workshops. These opportunities may be offered by Suzi independently or in collaboration with a dynamic team.

Offered locally, statewide, nationwide, and internationally
Designed for settings ranging from small groups in homes to large audiences on stages

Intended Outcomes

Opportunities to benefit from a variety of themes and topics
An established safe space with engaging, hands-on activities
Captivating and interesting resources
Participants leave having discovered their hidden gems and abilities, prepared to move forward to their next stepping stone

Recent Embrace Within Solutions Learning Opportunities

Family Week Workshops #3 and #4

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 activities
Discovering our identities within our families
Expectations and assumptions: buzzers and techniques
Parenting priorities and self-care
THINK strategies

Speaking Out on Civil and Voting Rights

Conner Prairie, Fourth of July weekend Fishers, Indiana

Performed as Helen Keller, presenting Helen Keller’s October 17, 1915 speech, “Why Men Need Woman Suffrage”

Taste of ProTactile

Vocational Rehabilitation Conference Muncie, Indiana

Provided hands-on ProTactile training during ten rotations for vocational rehabilitation counselors, staff, administrators, and community alliance members
Worked with a team of ten DeafBlind ProTactile trainers
Assisted with workshop development and preparation for the ten training rotations

New England DeafBlind Retreat

DeafBlind Support, Advocacy, and Network Griswold, Connecticut

Engaged with DeafBlind participants using full ProTactile language during a variety of indoor and outdoor activities
Provided ProTactile training to sixteen CoNavigators
Assisted with retreat development and preparation
Worked with a team of five DeafBlind staff members

Scopes of DeafBlind Leadership and Allyship

LEAD BA Program at Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York

History of DeafBlind Individuals and Communities

American Sign Language high school students Fishers, Indiana

Working with CoNavigators and ProTactile Training

Hoosier DeafBlind Alliance DeafBlind ProTactile 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 and 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