Colour Wheel Counselling and Supervision

10/31/2025

NEXT WEEK! Families supporting an adult with developmental disabilities are welcome to join our NEW Family Hangout starting next Monday, November 3, at 7pm!

This Family Hangout is designed to help you navigate Community Living BC (CLBC) services and supports for adults ages 19+ (or transition-aged youth) with clarity and confidence. Whether your loved one is newly eligible or already receiving support, this group offers practical guidance and emotional reassurance for families walking this path.

This is a welcoming space for families to ask questions, share concerns, and gain the knowledge needed to support your adult family member with dignity and purpose.

The first session begins Monday, November 3, 2025, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm

This Family Hangout will take place every other week, on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GBxQBdU2QjWlm8z3P67RqA

10/31/2025

10/25/2025

Critical Encounters presents DISABILITY, INDIGENEITY, ABILITY: Rheanna Robinson in Conversation with Susan Burch

💬 Join us for a powerful conversation with two leading scholars on the intersections of disability, indigeneity, and the enduring impacts of ableism. This event will highlight Indigenous perspectives on disability and social justice to offer critical insights into how we can imagine access, care, and community beyond colonial frameworks. This event marks November's Indigenous Disability Awareness Month in B.C.

Tuesday, October 28
3:00-4:30pm
Critical Humanities Commons
CLE C305 or Zoom

To register, click the link below:
https://events.uvic.ca/humanities/event/100652-critical-encounters-disability-indigeneity-ableism

10/25/2025

Evan M. Cohen artist

10/23/2025

🌿 What Intersectionality Means - Intersectionality is a way of understanding how different aspects of a person’s identity; like race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, and neurotype, overlap and shape their experiences.

The term was first introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Black feminist legal scholar, to describe how Black women face discrimination that can’t be understood by looking at racism or sexism alone — because they experience both at once, in interconnected ways.

In research and academia, intersectionality matters because:

Barriers aren’t experienced equally. An autistic white man and an autistic Black woman may both face ableism, but their experiences within institutions differ due to racism, sexism, or classism.

Inclusion that focuses on just one identity (for example, neurodiversity) can still exclude others if it doesn’t consider how these identities intersect.

True equity means recognising that people’s experiences are complex, layered, and context-dependent.

So, intersectionality isn’t about listing identities — it’s about understanding how systems of power and privilege interact to shape who gets heard, who gets opportunities, and whose knowledge counts.

In short:

> Intersectionality helps us see that oppression doesn’t happen one category at a time — it happens at the crossroads.

Let's reimagine inclusion together,

Jess x x

Please consider donating to my fundraiser, so I can make my work open access - https://gofund.me/b0c343ed6

10/18/2025

Five new members have been appointed to British Columbia’s Provincial Accessibility Committee (PAC), reinforcing the Province’s commitment to advancing accessibility and inclusion for all people in British Columbia.