We’ve had the privilege of working alongside many remarkable colleagues who share a lifelong commitment to building a world that welcomes the talents, gifts and capacities of every person into participation in community life.
Here, you’ll find our extensive collection of articles, videos, products and other materials created both individually and collaboratively by these change makers. These treasured works represent decades of learning, advocacy, innovation and collective effort.
Our archive offers a curated lens into the ideas, practices and cultural movements that helped introduce and nurture foundational concepts such as inclusion and person-centered work. It highlights the voices, insights, and contributions of those who have helped shape this field and continues to honour the legacy of these changemakers.
John O’Brien and his wife and partner, Connie Lyle O’Brien, are lifelong learners and social innovators who create better community lives for people with disabilities. In addition to co-developing some widely used person-centered planning approaches and hosting many learning opportunities for people with disabilities, their families, and human service workers, they are insightful and sensitive writers. Inclusion Press has been privileged to publish its books.
This document explores PATH (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope), a dynamic tool designed to foster...
What’s Worth Working For? Leadership for Better Quality Human Services explores how human services...
This insightful document, Members of Each Other by John O’Brien and Connie Lyle O’Brien, explores...
Judith Snow was a remarkable leader, philosopher, teacher, artist, and creator. Without Judith’s pioneering leadership, we would not have the Joshua Committee, the Circle of Friends and more. She was the first person in Canada to battle for independent funding for a person living with complex disabilities. Judith didn’t believe in disability – just Giftedness and Capacity. She wrote, lectured, travelled the world and lived every day to the full till her death in May, 2015.
On Resilience – Judith Snow This document dives into the fascinating interplay between chaos theory,...
Judith Snow shares the poetry of her journey against all odds. From the start, experts...
The Wonderful Life of Judith Snow This tribute celebrates the extraordinary life of Judith Snow,...
John McKnight was the co-founder of ABCD – Asset-Based Community Development. – an institute, books, world leadership—a remarkable thought leader and storyteller. John’s books and workshops created a global network that continues to mobilize citizens’ gifts and capacities. John was also a founding faculty member of the Toronto Summer Institutes for 34 years. John passed in December 2024, but his inspirational leadership continues.
Discover how the “institutional assumption” shapes modern society and why it often leads to failed...
My Learnings: https://johnmcknight.org/learnings John L McKnight Download a Compilation of John McKnight’s Learnings Learning 1...
Welcome to Day Three of the Toronto Summer Institute I think this is a duplicate????...
Marsha Forest was a relentless, lifelong advocate for Inclusion. Marsha spent her life teaching and supporting families and educators to create inclusion for all. She met Judith Snow and Jack Pearpoint (whom she married). The result was the Circle of Friends, and then the MAPS process and later PATH – conversational approaches to reveal and nurture the gifts and capacities in every person – no exceptions. Marsha was the founding mother of the Summer Institutes at McGill and, later, at Toronto. The impact was global. Marsha passed away in 2000 after a 12-year battle with cancer.
A heartfelt celebration of Marsha Forest’s life—a remarkable woman whose spirit continues to inspire us...
This video, facilitated by Marsha Forest and Jack Pearpoint, explores the PATH process, a creative...
This document explores the transformative power of inclusion in education, camping, and community life, emphasizing...
Independent Canadian Publisher and catalyst for Inclusion, Diversity, Teamwork and CHANGE!
A unique learning experience that dives into person-centered thinking and planning. This module brings together...
In 1996, Marsha Forest, John O’Brien and Jack Pearpoint accepted the invitation from the journal...
A Friendly Guide to Dreaming and Planning Your Future This video demonstrates the PATH planning...
Beth Mount is an artist of social change. I engage with people to co-create imaginative futures on behalf of people with intellectual disabilities, their families, and allies. For 50 years, I have been committed to cultivating supportive relationships and conversations that can liberate people and change the way we relate in our more inclusive communities. Beth’s “quilts” are featured in museums and transform people’s visions into portraits of imaginative spaces where people are finding fresh ways to live their best lives. She is a Creative genius with a focus on inventing, teaching, and delivering full-life options for people with developmental disabilities.
In this video, Beth Mount explores the big difference between system-centered and person-centered planning. Traditionally,...
In this remarkable interview, Connie Lyle O’Brien and Beth Mount review their journey with person-centered...
In this inspiring talk, Beth Mount invites us to imagine a world that truly works...
Lynda Kahn is a co-director with Inclusion Press International, Toronto. Lynda, together with her partner and husband, Jack Pearpoint, works with individuals, families, organizations and governments interested in positive change through facilitating conversations, planning sessions and offering training workshops. She is a member of the board of the Marsha Forest Center on Inclusion, Family and Community.
In 2021, Jack Pearpoint and Lynda Kahn shared their experiences and insights in a webinar...
Metaphors: Lynda Kahn introduces the concept of METAPHOR and gives examples of the power of...
Community organizer, social entrepreneur, author, parent activist, co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN).
Researcher, author at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration. She created a powerful practical manual.
Founder and CEO Beth Gallagher, designs personalized supports. Kirk Hinkleman, Director of Life Works supports people with challenging needs. Together, they co-authored the books Intentional Teaming and the Liberty Plan.
Creator of the Citizen Centered Leadership Program now collaborating with Citizen Network.
A Life long advocate for full inclusion currently sharing his ‘Star Rafts’ with the world.
The original “Roving Listener, community builder, founder of the Learning Tree network.
Catalyst for inclusion in the Netherlands and Europe since 1991. A colleague, author, playwright & global cyclist.
A relentless advocate for inclusion teaching, writing for all students in regular classrooms.
Catalysts for committed citizens in Manchester CT to support each other for over five decades.
Former CEO at the Arc of Rensselaer County in NY State, authored Creating Blue Space.
Co-founders of Scottish Human Services. Heather is currently an EU Member of Parliament. Pete is a visionary leader for inclusion and food justice, now directing Nourish Scotland.
A life long Scottish advocate for people with disabilities challenging us through writing and training.
Teacher and workshop leader for SRV and Normalization, focused on friendships between people with and without disabilities.
Jeff Strully, a disability services pioneer, combines 50+ years’ experience with personalized support and lifelong learning.
Founder/director of the 4Rs creating capacities to cultivate understanding and reconciliation. across cultures
An inventor/creator/author mobilized street people in Beat the Street, Created the U-CAN Dictionary and now linking literacy to suicide.
Co-Chief of WAiS - Western Australia's Individualized Services. Created remarkable videos about people who use services.
A remarkable leader, author and advocate; currently a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Education at Syracuse University.
Co-conspirators creating support networks that build community engagement for everyone with workshops and videos.
A brilliant balladeer – writing and singing songs about human serviceland.
Rajesh organized Indian villages for decades, founded Participatory Research Institute – PRIA. Budd was the Secretary General of the International Council for Adult Education – and now UNESCO co-Chair Community Based Research.
Founder of the Centre for Welfare Reform – and co-founder of Citizen Network a social movement to advance citizenship.
A leader whose mission is to rebuild the language, culture and spirit of his people in a post-colonial self-sustaining nation.
These pioneers were foundational leaders that have passed.
A pioneer in the disability-rights movement and founder of the World Institute on Disability.
A brilliant educational psychologist committed to inclusion and 'troubled youth' and changed policies in England to support inclusion.
Revered leader, scholar, teacher, and advocate who believed in Positive Approaches for People with Difficult Behaviour.
A relentless advocate for inclusion teaching, writing for all students in regular classrooms.
A life-long advocate for literacy. As President of Frontier College created literacy coalitions outside the educational field,
Educator, advocate, rule breaker who changed the culture for people with disability labels to be fully included.
A remarkable African American civil rights organizer from Philadelphia who seized houses to inspire people to action.
