Flagship Session: Partners in Love & Change

Designed and facilitated by Himanshi Sardana & Rewant Katyal, Co-founders of Decode Disability

Awareness is important. But meaningful disability inclusion begins when people move beyond knowing about disability to understanding how it is experienced in real life.

Partners in Love & Change brings together lived experiences, cross-disability perspectives, real-world situations and interactive engagement to help participants see barriers differently, question assumptions and think about what can change.

From Awareness to Understanding

• See disability beyond stereotypes and labels
• Explore different disability experiences and perspectives
• Understand how barriers show up in everyday life
• Recognise the impact of assumptions, attitudes and environments
• Connect disability inclusion to real-world situations

From Understanding to Action

• Identify where exclusion occurs
• Understand why a barrier exists and who it affects
• Explore different points where change can happen
• Think beyond one-size-fits-all solutions
• Consider practical ways to create more enabling experiences and environments

Partners in Love & Change is shaped by the lived experiences of Himanshi Sardana and Rewant Katyal, a couple with disabilities and the co-founders of Decode Disability.

Their experiences bring a perspective that cannot be captured through definitions, checklists or assumptions alone.

Through real stories, everyday situations and different points of view, they invite participants to look at disability through the realities of navigating spaces, services, interactions and experiences.

The focus is not inspiration. It is understanding.

Same Place. Different Experience.

Two people can enter the same space and experience it in completely different ways.

One person may encounter a physical barrier. Another may face a communication barrier. Someone else may encounter an assumption, a process or an interaction that limits their choice or independence.

Through Himanshi and Rewant's different perspectives, participants explore:

Because there is no single "disabled experience", meaningful inclusion requires us to listen, understand context and move beyond assumptions.

Lived Experience as a Lens

Himanshi and Rewant don't speak for every person with a disability. They bring their own experiences into the conversation to open up questions, perspectives and possibilities for participants to explore.

Their journey becomes a lens through which participants can examine their own environments, assumptions and approaches to inclusion.

Every organisation is at a different point in its disability inclusion journey. Partners in Love & Change can be delivered as a focused perspective-building session, a deeper immersive experience or a customised engagement designed around your context.

Let's Design the Right Experience

Tell us about your audience, context and what you want participants to take away. We will shape the experience around it.

Participants will be encouraged to:

• Understand disability through multiple lived perspectives.
• Recognise physical, digital, behavioural, communication and systemic barriers.
• Question assumptions that can unintentionally create exclusion.
• Respond more confidently to real life situations involving disability.
• Analyse where accessibility breaks down across a person's journey.
• Think through practical, context specific interventions.
• Act within their own sphere of influence.