The "People IN" project performs several important functions at once.
It helps seminar participants to take a fresh look at the reality around us and gain invaluable skills for interacting with disabled people. After the event, the level of empathy and motivation for development in the field of inclusion increases significantly, and the acquired knowledge helps to build work competently and ethically.
Moreover, the socio-cultural seminars "People IN" are a wonderful example of the implementation of the principle of equality. The project's trainers are people with disabilities who have an active lifestyle and experience in building an accessible environment. They understand the problems and needs of disabled people, so they can explain simply, clearly and, what is the most important –basing on their own experience, all the nuances of comfortable interaction. They are able to break down stereotypes and barriers about disability.

When I become a wise person, and someone ask me what I want to wish to young people and everyone in general, I will definitely say: "Do not miss the opportunity to become a participant in the People IN project". I'm sure by that time the project will already be so popular that no one will have any questions why I recommend this, but if they still ask: "Why?", I will answer. I will answer that such projects expand consciousness, give a look at any situation from several sides, reflect on the conditionality of all borders and barriers. You can also learn professionalism in conducting trainings from the organizers, take note of the various formats of tasks and the mechanics of their conduct. And you should definitely become a participant of the project to understand that "it's easy to communicate, the main thing is to start communicating".
And even though I am not such an adult and wise person yet, I will already allow myself to advise everyone to become a participant in this wonderful project at least once in their lives.

The seminar "People IN" will be useful not only for those who communicate with people with disabilities by their kind of activity, but also simply in the daily life of each person. After all, the world is saved not by beauty, but by kindness. Just think how nice it will be for both you and a person with a disability if we offer our help and offer it correctly. It turns out that they are waiting for her, you just need to ask. But many of us won't ask, because they are re just shy, they don't know how. This was the case with me before attending the seminar.
The peculiarity of the project is that the coaches are people with disabilities. It is like learning a foreign language from a native speaker. The project is a base that we are not taught at school or university.
I am an etiquette expert. The purpose of my visit to the seminar was not only to overcome communication barriers, but also to understand the process of interaction under the prism of etiquette.
Just a few hours, and emotions will last for a long time! Three modules in each of which there will be discoveries and new feelings of self. It is hard to put into words, you can only feel it!
Unlimited gratitude to the project team! This is a great contribution not only to everyone who came to the training, it is a solution to a problem relevant to society! So simple and so brilliant!

I was at the seminar and I was completely delighted.
It was valuable to me that we were told by specific people who live with their own features, and not by specialists who studied interaction, understanding, etc.
What I learned that I could not read anywhere else, had not heard at other seminars, which was valuable:
1. An excellent comparison is that people who hear weakly or do not hear at all, like foreigners;
2. A great addition to the interactive moments to the seminar: we learn to speak using Russian sign language, sing, interact with the actor; we try to feel what it is like when you have one hand, but you need to get dressed; feel different and go with a guide dog or do exercises in complete darkness;
3. That total blindness is rare. For myself, I solved the questions with the explanation of colors for blind and visually impaired people.

Thank you so much for your work.
It was important and valuable for me to spend the morning and afternoon at the seminar!

I would like to express my gratitude to the people who took part in the creation of the seminar. In just a few hours, we were immersed in a world where everything is possible, the main thing is not to build barriers, and also to be able to communicate. Several modules devoted to different types of disability talk about the accessible environment and trends in the development of correct interaction in society. Especially useful were personal examples of people with disabilities, life cases that make the material vivid and visual!
The interactive format of the seminar, unique conditions for going beyond the usual perception, feedback and sociable lecturers are what the seminar is worth visiting for!

The training "People IN" literally in one evening turns your idea of the life of people with hearing and vision impairments upside down. Here you not only gain academic knowledge about different types of disabilities, but also put yourself in the people's with disabilities shoes. It's both exciting, scary, curious, and extremely important. Only here people with disabilities directly and easily talk about their problems, difficulties and joys. The training allows you to form the right models of behaviour and perception of such people. And the acquired knowledge can be applied with confidence in practice. This class is definitely worth visiting for every resident of the metropolis in order to understand our neighbours with disabilities better.

Every year, our guides and administrative and pedagogical staff pass training on understanding disability presented by the project "People in" as part of the MOSGORTURa program "Training and Practice of guides for working with children with disabilities". Our employees and future guides gain experience of positive interaction with people with disabilities, learn about the specifics of working with children with disabilities and learn how to interact with them. All this is possible thanks to the high professionalism of the experts of the State Museum-Cultural Centre "Integration"!

We are happy to cooperate with you and hope that together we will be able to train more and more specialists to work in inclusive shifts.