About Imagine More’s Peer Support Groups
Our Peer Support Groups support families to help their family members with disability seek out, enjoy and maintain The Good Life. Each group provides an opportunity for learning, discussion, sharing, troubleshooting, and celebrating.
In 2025, we will be running four Peer Groups:
- Customised Employment Peer Group
- Imagining Home Peer Group
- Inclusive Education Peer Group
- Recruiting and Directing Peer Group
During meetings, we encourage peer group members to share their ideas and plans and find inspiration from each other’s stories and experiences. Our friendly and knowledgeable facilitators ensure everyone feels safe, welcome, and supported.
Our peer groups are built around different topics, but all share the following guiding principles:
One person at a time
We must always keep the individual at the centre of our planning and actions. What works for one person may not work for another. By working one person at a time, we are more likely to invest our efforts towards outcomes that lead the individual to the good things in life.
Full inclusion
We promote inclusion in every aspect of a person’s life. This means that we don’t explore or discuss options that involve any form of congregation or segregation of people with disability.
Meaningful and valued contribution and participation
This is a crucial element of any good life. When a person has a valued role, such as being a friend at school, having a job, or being a homemaker, this provides them with purpose, meaningful contribution and a way to participate in the community. As Dylan Alcott (Australian of the Year 2022) would say, changing the perception of others is critical in shifting societal expectations of people with disability.
Social Role Valorisation theory supports the focus on changing perception. It tells us that when people with disability have roles that are highly valued by others, it shifts how they are perceived and treated.
We invite you to join us in a Peer Group that best suits your family’s focus this year. It doesn’t matter if you are very new to seeking the good things of life or a seasoned traveller. We can all learn something from others and give and receive support.
Peer Support Group Themes for 2025
Each Peer Group has a limited number of places, prioritising past members and those in the Canberra region.
Customised Employment
Imagining Home
Join this supportive group of like-minded families exploring Home for their family members with disability. We welcome families who have a strong vision for home for their family members with disability and want to look beyond the limitations of congregated housing models.
Learn more about the 2025 Imagining Home Peer Group
Inclusive Education
Join this supportive group of like-minded families pursuing an inclusive education for their children with disability. We welcome new members who share our vision of authentic inclusive education for students with disability.
Learn more about the 2025 Inclusive Education Peer Group
Recruiting and Directing Peer Group
A supportive group of like-minded families recruiting and managing support staff for their family members with disability.
Learn more about the 2025 Recruiting and Directing Peer Group