Hi Jack,

I would first like to comment on how my attendance at the DUI 2012 and all the wonderful people that I met changed my life. After being unemployed since January 2011, I am now sitting in my office on the top floor overlooking the centre of Campbelltown in Sydney helping guide a major local Disability Support Organisation change its culture towards more Person Centred Approaches. Maybe culture is the wrong word but I am giving fellow people with a disability a voice and I feel like I am being heard. I also believe that the senior management in the organisation understand that person centredness is more than a tool or a form, its a way of life. I have a lot of challenges ahead of me, families, staff and introducing choice to those that have never really had a choice, never really had hope that their dreams could ever be realised, especially with those that are skeptical and think that person centredness is just another fad, or have been promised so much that has rarely been delivered. But I am excited and believe that I can make a difference despite the challenges that lay ahead. I am a true believer and am grateful for the leadership and friendship that so many at the DUI showed me that gave me the confidence to be where I am now.

Thanks Jack, that's a good idea!

Hi Jack, thank you.  I certainly enjoyed meeting and talking with you as well.  As for Lynda, I'll keep contact with her.  

Looking forward to continue our conversation and sharing.  Carlos

Thank you for your warm welcome into this online community!  Eventually I hope to be able to contribute as much as I take away from this group.  I see that there is a wealth of information and resources among the blogs and archived posts, and I look forward to putting some of these ideas to work here in Dahlonega

Thank you for the warm welcome.  I look forward to learning and practicing.

Kathy

"ITCHY and Fascinating" .... I love it!!

all is well ... despite the gloom and doom stuff.

Hey, have you seen the final book version of Defining Moments yet? You NEED TO SEE IT!! It's the project that Michele Banks called you about a few years back and Lynda referred over to me ... oh ... we had FUN!